I just got a Nokia N810 "Internet Tablet". It's a gizmo that looks like a
PDA, has a slide-out QWERTY (sorta) keyboard, a user-facing 176x144 camera,
and speaks 802.11g and Bluetooth, among other things. It runs Maemo, which
is a distro related to Debian.
What I want to do with it is to have it act as an MP3 player, which I can
log into remotely and stop/start songs on a Samba/SMB share. It'd be nice
if I could change volume too.
So far I've installed rootsh (su), openSSH, and xmms. At the device I can
launch MP3s from a remote share by selecting a folder-full in the N810's
file manager and hitting "enter", or I can ssh to it and tell xmms to play a
local file with xmmsctrl (I think). What I'd like to do is be able to play
files from a share, remotely. I think I can do this if I find smbfs so I
can mount the share, then point xmms at it. OR, I can run vnc but that
seems higher-bandwidth and likely to break if X or eth0 goes down. Also, I
have to baby sit it because I can only queue up a folder at a time that way
(not with xmms) and random play is out.
So, has anyone dealt with a similar device, or have an idea about where to
get smbfs or an MP3 player that speaks SMB?
-- -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP http://royalty.mine.nu:81 "It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file." -- Bertil Jonell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 15:29:05 EDT