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Got a DF Base and Link module today.  Have started work on a driver for this media center.

Completed a large portion of the Audio control interface today.  Currently have album/artist/song and coverart displaying on my K4 with realtime tracking of the current song position.

Am now working on a scrolling list with songs. 

Scrolling list for audio is now working.  You can browse artists/albums/tracks.
Working on the play list stuff next.

Audio control is done.
I have movie control working, just adding coverart, genre/actor etc info to feedback.

Movie control is done.  Have added coverart, movie title/actors/reviews/year/director etc feedback.

Next I need to add feedback for the other zones.

Did a lot of bug fixing today.  Managed to speed up the navigation controls so it's now as responsive as using the IR remote.
Still need to fix a bug that's causing the playlist (queue) to go crazy if you select a track to play.

Playlist/queue now works.  Fixing bugs related to multiple zones.

As the Base/Link modules only support a power OFF command i've added a power ON command via wake-on-LAN.  Works great!

Driver is done!  Needs some more documentation, but I hope to showcase the driver at ISE in just over a week's time!

Added support for Playlists, Net Radio, Genre and Shuffle mode!

This driver is finally ready for closed testing, email me if you're interested.

This driver interfaces with the DF Solutions Base/Link integrated entertainment system.

http://mydevice.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69&Itemid=10 (http://mydevice.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=69&Itemid=10)

With the included sample project, interfacing your DF box with RTI couldn’t be easier. The driver features full 2-way feedback allowing you to control your music library without the need to see the video output.

Features:

• Remote control (the same features as the IR remote)
• Movie playback control
• Movie feedback (title, year, rating, directors, actors etc)
• Music playback control
• Music browsing directly on the remote
• Music queueing
• Music now playing (track, title, artist, album, genre etc)
• Cover art for movies and music
• IP control
• Support for 17 zones
• Eazy zone flipping
• Fully tested and authorised by DF Solutions!

To help reduce integrator programming efforts the DF driver includes something we've termed 'Easy zone flipping'. In addition to the 17 zones of feedback provided (which would be a lot of work to implement on a remote!) there is an additional zone of feedback called 'current zone'.

Simply create a single zone using the 'current zone' set of feedback variables and add 2 buttons 'Next Zone' and 'Previous Zone'. Each time you change zones all the feedback is updated. No need to add scores of pages!

Need to control multiple Base and/or Link servers? No problem, simply add a 2nd (or 3rd, 4th...) instance of the driver to your processor - the one license code will work across multiple copies on the same processor.

It is possible to solve a problem with display of the Russian characters?

It is possible to make a choice of movies of the list?

Thanks...

If you can send me an mp3 that has the problem, then yes I should be able to fix it.

As for adding new functionality... it's not likely as DF Solutions no longer sell the hardware.

http://yadi.sk/d/_4zdg5-d5Wnnz - mp3.

Problem with names of movies and with names the Internet of radio stations. (Russian characters)

It seems that the DF protocol is sending back the bad characters.  When I query the server for a list of tracks, the one you provided above is returned as "?-?????", see below:


As DF are no longer in business I can't even contact them to see if there's anything I can do.

It is a pity... I hope that DF will return... Thanks