I was just playing with controlling my empeg [running 1.02 developer kernel] from the serial port and I notice that according to the list of commands I found that date back to the Mark I EMPEG that there appears to be no commands to switch to a different playlist from the current playlist.
There are commands to do just about everything else, but not that.
Am I missing something or is this genuinely missing from the serial interface command set?

- Greg

Once you're playing music, there is no next/previous playlist -- it's all been flattened down into the running order.

However, you can navigate the menu structure using the serial port, but you'll get no useful feedback from the serial connection.

Use 'm' to get into the menu, 'n' and 'p' to go right and left, and 'm' to go down a level. '*' goes back up a level. Press return to confirm the character, or sequence of characters.



Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg

Press return to confirm the character, or sequence of characters.

I never knew about the sequence of characters thing. I just tried it, pretty nifty!

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Tony Fabris

Does anyone have any idea how (or when) the serial port command characters can be delivered to the player via a different port than the serial port?
[say IOCTL, or similar low-level method] or are we stuck with having to send serial characters to the serial port to control the EMPEG remotely?

Greg

Frank's IRHack kernel already does this. It's how you can remotely control the Empeg with the Java applet in Displayserver. It's just a question of modifying the kernel to do your bidding.

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Tony Fabris

I've got a small program which puts characters in the serial buffer, so it is possible to have a program running on the empeg issueing serial command sequences. I will look it up...

Frank van Gestel