of the running song and playlist ?

I wrote a (very!) small utility to broadcast data from the empeg via ethernet.

Right now it just sends the temperature and the contents of /proc/empeg_state.

How can I find out the FIDs ?
I would like to use my Desktop to show the running title via a video beamer ... great for parties.

I tried to extract the fid from /dev/empeg_state, but as mentioned elsewhere the format will change (whcih is fine for now);
But the real problem is if I open /dev/empeg_state (RO) before I start the player the player will die :(
I could "proxy" the device, but that is more complicated than I want and in case my "statusServer" dies the player will die, too.

Any good ideas ?

Maybe in the next version the fids could be readable via a fifo ??

anti


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