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#4463 - 13/08/1999 11:27 talking with the empeg
bobo
member

Registered: 13/08/1999
Posts: 116
Hi,

does anybody tried to connect to the empeg ?
What about PPP over USB or something like that ?
At the moment it seems to be a very closed system without any possibilities to develop programs for it.

bobo


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#4464 - 14/08/1999 09:55 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: bobo]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
It's not closed at all - yes, with the "consumer" image on the player, there's just the player and nothing else on the hard disk. However, if you use the "developer" image, you can quit the player and get a shell prompt. On the disk are the usual unix tools, glibc2.1, plus rz/sz (download your own programs to the unit). /dev/hda2 is a 32Mb blank (not mkfs'ed) partition for your own stuff which won't get blatted by upgrades.

As for the protocol the player talks when running, we'll shortly be publishing the source to a client which talks to the server running in the player (read/write files, control the player, grab screen images, etc). Remember our programming effort here is limited, and it's currently best spent improving the software on the unit rather than writing docs on the internal protocols for people to read :)

Hugo




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#4465 - 15/08/1999 09:47 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: altman]
bobo
member

Registered: 13/08/1999
Posts: 116
ok, if I would have a developer-image - I agree its very open :-)
but where to get the developer-image ?

bobo



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#4466 - 15/08/1999 09:58 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: bobo]
bobo
member

Registered: 13/08/1999
Posts: 116
sorry - I already found the link on the last page of the manual :)

http://www2.empeg.com/upgrades/

bobo


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#4467 - 16/08/1999 03:41 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: altman]
schofiel
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 2993
Loc: Wareham, Dorset, UK
Remember our programming effort here is limited, and it's currently best spent improving the software on the unit

;^)

Need any programmers, Hugo? I'd be willing to move back to Cambridge and work for peanuts....

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#4468 - 22/08/1999 13:17 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: bobo]
buts
journeyman

Registered: 30/06/1999
Posts: 58
Loc: sydney australia
if you get a unit with a consumer image can this be upgraded to a
developer image. ?





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#4469 - 23/08/1999 01:41 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: buts]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Yes, you can switch images whenever you want by just running the upgrader with the appropriate image file.

Hugo



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#4470 - 23/08/1999 19:59 Re: talking with the empeg [Re: altman]
borgcube
stranger

Registered: 09/06/1999
Posts: 36
Loc: Texas, US
EXCELENT job on the updater code by the way.

It makes it almost a no brainer to upgrade, hold on I think it really was. :>

Now if I could only do this with my TV, I just might have upgraded it to HDTV, humm, now were was that USB port...

Kamau Wanguhu
kamau@borgcube.com

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