Part 1. Ordering a hardware UPnP-AV Renderer The Vera I ordered in “A UPnP Home” was to act as a bridge between UPnP and appliances around the house. This still left my AV needs somewhat unfulfilled as most UPnP capable devices are UPnP consumers, but do not offer themselves up as fully fledged renderers (AVTransports). [...]
Archives for Zhaan
A UPnP Home
Since Zhaan made it into extras-devel I have gotten several feature requests for new functionality. Many of them have made sense and I have gone ahead implemented them in the latest version. For example, Zhaan 0.1-8 implements vastly improved playlist support. Zhaan is now at the point where I have found myself actually using it [...]
Zhaan now available in extras-devel!
Myself and the PyMaemo folks have been working these past few days to clear the blockers from making PyGi work on maemo. There was a last minute bug in the Maemo autobuilder which prevented PyGi from properly being imported into the maemo extras repository. (Turns out the bug was caused by the fact that [...]
PyGi version 0.5, the ‘Watch out, theres a Volcano!’ release
(Special note for this version of the release statement on this blog — All the features Zhaan needed made it into the release, hence Zhaan is 100% compatible with PyGi 0.5) It is my pleasure to bring to the world the first release of PyGi – the Python GObject Introspection bindings – version 0.5. We [...]
Zhaan works with Sonos!
I finally brought my development N900 to the office to see if the Zhaan would play nice with Sonos. My initial efforts were thwarted and alas Sonos did not appear as either a source or a renderer. A quick glance at gupnp-universal-cp knocked me over the head with why — Sonos uses nested devices; something [...]
Zhaan works on the N900!
It has been a long time coming but finally I’ve gotten Zhaan to work on the Nokia N900, a Maemo 5 device! Today Anderson and Willer at PyMaemo handed me a whole bunch of armel package dependencies for Zhaan. I combined them with some secret sauce (i.e. some extra projects, including updated GUPnP and GUPnPAV [...]
GUPnP + PyGi Packaged for ARMEL — Maemo Extras here we come!
Just a quick update that I just heard word from the PyMaemo guys (Willer & Anderson Lizardo) that they managed to overcome the major obstacles in packaging the dependencies for Zhaan. I am going to work on these packages and make a new package for Zhaan and push everything to Maemo extras-devel within the next [...]
Installing Zhaan
I have had several people contact me lately asking if they can run Zhaan. Unfortunatly there is a fairly significant amount of setup required to get Zhaan to run properly. This includes some code for gupnp, gupnp-av and pygi which is not yet upstream. I believe the gupnp and gupnp-av stuff is actually being merged [...]
Pandora-UPnP sees the light of day
This is becoming a very bad habit. Have a crazy and only semi useful idea one night and get a terrible itch all the next day until I can sit down and work on it. In this case I had an itch all day while at the gym and at work and then a passover [...]
Zhaan Controller
I had some pretty serious issues with my scratchbox environment but thanks to the PR1.2 SDK my life is much easier and things are working again. Since things are working Zhaan has been making some lovely progress. In particular I have now implemented a complete control panel in Zhaan. I have also implemented the [...]
