I've just spent the day hacking together the first version of "EmpegNotifier". I think of it as AutoPlay for your empeg. It sits in the notification area (the tray) and watches for empegs coming and going on the local network (network-only at the moment, I'm afraid).

My plan is that you'll be able to attach actions to events (i.e. when your empeg appears on the network, run emplode). At the moment, however, it just watches for empegs and updates the icon and tooltip text.

If anyone fancies giving it a whirl, please let me know how you get on. Suggestions welcome. I've tested it on Windows Vista, but I think it'll work on Windows 2000 and newer.

Very cool- I will be installing it on my machine at home. Can't wait for an auto-load of Emplode action.

First thing it should do: Write out a HOSTS file entry that assigns the IP address of the Empeg to "EMPEG" :-)

First thing it should do: when it finds an empeg, spawn a program that updates the HOSTS file...

You see where I'm coming from?

What a nice idea. I'll have a play with that later on.

And removes the entry when the empeg leaves the network.

But what if you have more than one empeg connected to the network at the same time? Is it possible for the program to find the empeg name and use that in the HOSTS file?

Stig

excellent
Is is KDE or Gnome?

Yep. That's the plan.



Yes.

Windows-only at the moment. I'll look at carving up the interesting bits of code so that someone can write a KDE/GNOME version.

WinForms stuff works passably well under mono on Linux now, though obviously system tray functionality might be a bit of a problem.

This program's written in C++, mainly because of size constraints.

If you coded it using QT, then it should "just work" for all three.

-ml

Qt .... mmmm.

Since when did changing the HOSTS file stop needing a reboot for the changes take effect?

Windows 95?

You get a binary (and source) for Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and 2008.

If you don't like it, write your own...

He's referring to Andrew's comment about not needing to reboot when changing the hosts file. Not that he wants to run it on Windows 95! At least I hope not. If anybody is still running Windows 95 then they should get their head examined IMO...

Ah. Fair enough. My apologies to Dearing; I'm a little short of sleep at the moment, as you can imagine.

The project page (including downloads) is available at https://projects.differentpla.net/projects/show/empeg-notifier

The https certificate is self-signed, so you'll get a warning. You can safely ignore it (as long as you trust me).

At some point, I'll look into having anonymous access over http, and logged-in access over https.

The current version uploaded there isn't (externally) much further advanced than the one I've already attached. There'll be a new version soon-ish, time permitting.

This works (at least, it does for me). You can grab the installer from https://projects.differentpla.net/projects/list_files/empeg-notifier

thanks for showing me redmine. for the last week i've been looking at different project trackers, and redmine seems to beat everything else i've looked at.

anyways, one feature i'd like to see supported in EmpegNotifier is... setup a dropbox for autosync when an empeg is located, maybe even as advanced as rsync multiple empegs against a single directory structure.

EmpegNotifier just runs the defined program. It's up to you what that program does. I was planning on having the default program be responsible for the actual "what do you want to do?" UI.

That said: bung a feature request in on the tracker, and if I get time, I'll put together an external program for syncing.

Yeah. It's not bad; I've been using trac up to this point, which is good, but doesn't support multiple projects too well. Trac's got a better milestone implementation, though.

Getting redmine to run behind Apache was a bit of a chore, though. I'll write up how I did it at some point.

Yeah, the Windows 95 comment was definitely about the hosts file, not your software. Don't sweat it.

That may be a solution for podcast autosync.

I've moved this to Google Code, which will hopefully free up time to actually work on some personal projects, rather than simply tinker with the infrastructure for those personal projects.

http://code.google.com/p/nemplode/

Can anyone repost the file?

I can not find this anywhere else on the WHOLE internet, google returns 2 results...

The file listed on the first first is corrupt. I tired opening it in linux and windows with multiple programs to no eval. All other links are broken

No it's not. I just successfully downloaded and opened (and ran) it on Windows 7.

Is ok for me as well.

I've recently started using Mercurial for my source control. As such, I've moved all of my repositories to bitbucket. You can find the source to EmpegNotifier in my nemplode repository.