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#163338 - 28/05/2003 21:44 Hijack popup messages
mcomb
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Registered: 31/08/1999
Posts: 1649
Loc: San Carlos, CA
OK, I did a search but I can't find what I am looking for. I seem to remember there being a way to cause popup messages on the player by writing text to a proc file. Anybody know how to make this work?

Thanks,
-Mike
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#163339 - 29/05/2003 05:18 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: mcomb]
alainp
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Registered: 12/10/2000
Posts: 12
Loc: Arlon - Belgium
just try :

echo "popup 5 thanks mlord" > /proc/empeg_notify

It will display the text "thanks mlord" for 5 seconds

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#163340 - 29/05/2003 06:59 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: alainp]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
Very good!

And something similar should also be achievable remotely, by FTPing the same text into /proc/empeg_notify

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#163341 - 29/05/2003 07:07 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: mcomb]
suomi35
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Registered: 16/02/2002
Posts: 290
Loc: Denver, CO
You can also do it over http:

http://empeg.ip.here/?button=NODATA&POPUP%205%20thanks%20mlord

Will give you the same effect
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#163342 - 29/05/2003 07:32 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: suomi35]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
No Sh*t? I didn't know about that!

Or maybe I did, once..


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#163343 - 29/05/2003 10:25 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: mlord]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
Whoa, just tried that. That is SO COOL.

/me tries to figure out some way to work that into stuff he's doing.
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#163344 - 29/05/2003 10:31 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: suomi35]
mcomb
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Registered: 31/08/1999
Posts: 1649
Loc: San Carlos, CA
You can also do it over http


<mischevious smile>Perfect....</mischevious smile>

Thanks,
-Mike
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#163345 - 29/05/2003 10:47 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: mcomb]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31563
Loc: Seattle, WA
All right, Mike. Come clean. What are you working on?
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#163346 - 29/05/2003 10:54 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: tfabris]
tonyc
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Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
I dunno, but as soon as Mark found out about this, I started seeing these popups appearing on my player:



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#163347 - 29/05/2003 10:56 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: suomi35]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
Oh yeah, I was doing it the "hard way" with FTP.

Here's the EASY way with FTP:

site popup 5 Thanks, Guys!

Cheers

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#163348 - 29/05/2003 10:56 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: tonyc]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3582
Loc: Columbus, OH
ha ha
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#163349 - 29/05/2003 10:57 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: tonyc]
mlord
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Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
Mm.. yeah, you noticed!

Those aren't the only pop-ups hidden in Hijack..

Cheers

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#163350 - 29/05/2003 11:23 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: tfabris]
mcomb
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Registered: 31/08/1999
Posts: 1649
Loc: San Carlos, CA
All right, Mike. Come clean. What are you working on?


I am still in the "thinking about it stage", but I am looking at adding some functionality to the EmpMenuX program I recently released. I am thinking of using the empeg display for news/status messages. I poll the empeg every 10 seconds for song info so at the same time I could easily throw up weather info, stock quotes, number of unread posts on the bbs, etc. on the empeg's display. Basically anything I can scrape off a website somewhere.

I was also toying with the idea of showing cover art to match the current song scraped from Amazon on the computer running EmpMenuX.

No promises on either yet though.

-Mike
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#163351 - 30/05/2003 01:14 Re: Hijack popup messages [Re: mcomb]
canuckInOR
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Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
Awesome! "empbiff" here we come!

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