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#8967 - 05/06/2000 06:05 Linking 2 Empegs?
Jazzwire
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Registered: 09/06/1999
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I had a thought the other day (yes, shame on me... =)
As empeg's have serial ports on them, and (in the car) they have line inputs, what would be the feasability of linking 2 empegs together in a master / slave configuration...

For example:
A mark 2 empeg, with a mark 1 empeg connected to the line input, and via serial.
The mark 2 dowloads the playlist info from the mark 1, and combines it with it's own.
If the user requests a tune from the slave empeg, it starts to play it, and the master empeg switches inputs.

Not a useful feature for most people, but it would be a really good geek demo... =)

Of course, with 2 mark 2's you'd probably use the ethernet and the first empeg would play tunes off the second (using it as a filestore)

I'll shut up now... =)

Jazz
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#8968 - 05/06/2000 06:14 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
teemcbee
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Registered: 04/02/2000
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If you had 2 Mk2's - could you maybe sell one

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#8969 - 05/06/2000 08:11 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
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That's a really good idea Jazzwire - I don't think it'd be too hard to implement in the software, and it might be an added incentive for current Mark1 owners to purchase a mark2 without selling their old unit:)
-mark

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#8970 - 05/06/2000 16:34 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
tanstaafl.
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Registered: 08/07/1999
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Yes, of course. And it gets you past the ridiculous limitation of only being able to have 25 days of music in your car at one time.

tanstaafl.

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#8971 - 05/06/2000 23:39 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
phaigh
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Registered: 04/11/1999
Posts: 649
Loc: Reading, UK
You could always mount the other empeg's discs via NFS or similar to the \drive3 directory on the original empeg?

The player software seems to see the extra drives anyway.

Actually you could mount something from the network too....

Hmmmmm

Paul.

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#8972 - 06/06/2000 02:27 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: tanstaafl.]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
How about a Beowulf cluster in the car... world's first mobile supercomputer anyone?

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#8973 - 06/06/2000 02:37 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Geoff]
Jazzwire
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Somebody's been spending far too much time on Slashdot... =)

However, linking multiple empegs to form a Beowulf video wall could be fun... =)

Jazz
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#8974 - 06/06/2000 04:12 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
bryan
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Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 57
Loc: New Zealand
So if multiple empegs have airport adaptors in-car, can we exchange batch rendering jobs while stopped at the lights or playing in traffic?


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#8975 - 06/06/2000 04:15 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: bryan]
Jazzwire
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Now there's a concept... =)

Could be good with something like RC5... Drive past some office buildings, and pick up new work units... =)

Jazz
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#8976 - 06/06/2000 04:16 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: bryan]
rob
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Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
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Unfortunately not, as airport base stations won't talk to each other. You could do it with other adapters though - I can just envisage a whole new napster can of worms, as people head for the M25 to swap tunes :)

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#8977 - 06/06/2000 04:18 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: rob]
ppslim
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Registered: 18/05/2000
Posts: 66
Loc: N Wales, UK
Yer, sitting on the M6 swapping music, now thats one hell of a fun way to pass the time during tailbacks.

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#8978 - 06/06/2000 04:19 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: rob]
Jazzwire
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Better still, have all the empegs on the M25 playing the same tune at the same time... =)
(As long as it's not a tune from Hugo's empeg... =)

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#8979 - 06/06/2000 04:21 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
ppslim
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Registered: 18/05/2000
Posts: 66
Loc: N Wales, UK
LOL - A new form of digital broadcast, all around the country, pick it up on any PC, including your empeg. Imagine the pirate radio there.

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#8980 - 06/06/2000 04:24 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
bryan
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Registered: 25/06/1999
Posts: 57
Loc: New Zealand
Conjures up images of people chasing each other down the motorway to keep up the music.


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#8981 - 06/06/2000 08:49 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: bryan]
Jazzwire
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Heh, or with GPS on the empegs it could show the relative speed between cars... =)

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#8982 - 06/06/2000 09:16 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
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Or Toby could base a new visual on relative co-ordinates of other empegs

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#8983 - 06/06/2000 09:21 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Geoff]
Jazzwire
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Which you can't see due to the in-car visual setting... =)
(you'll have to drive all over the place for best effect... =)

Jazz
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#8984 - 06/06/2000 09:31 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
If we have a Beowulf cluster running, let the spare processing power take over the mundane task of actually driving the car... then we can watch the visuals and the in-car setting won't be necessary!!! I think I need to go and lie down in a dark room...

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#8985 - 06/06/2000 09:56 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Geoff]
Jazzwire
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I was just thinking that... You beat me to it... =)
Drive-by-empeg... =)

Jazz
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#8986 - 06/06/2000 11:28 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
dionysus
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Registered: 16/06/1999
Posts: 1222
Loc: San Francisco, CA
hmm.. I think Empeg would be millionaire's if we got to the point where you could run a napster-type service off the empeg's while you were driving:)What's the range of wavelan again, 150 feet? Let's see.. One empeg, every 150 feet.. Do the math:)

-mark

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#8987 - 06/06/2000 11:28 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: Jazzwire]
rob
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Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
Hey, no more moaning about that, we put in a fast toggle (hold the bottom button) into Beta11pre!

Rob



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#8988 - 06/06/2000 13:58 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: rob]
Geoff
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Registered: 21/08/1999
Posts: 381
Loc: Northern Ireland
I can hardly moan about that, considering I think I may have suggested holding the bottom button to toggle... (even if it wasn't my idea, at least let me believe that for a day or two, it might be my claim to fame! )

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#8989 - 06/06/2000 15:54 Re: Linking 2 Empegs? [Re: rob]
Jazzwire
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Registered: 09/06/1999
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Can the fast toggle be configured to switch to info line, not info off... =)
(Just kidding, it's not too bad now... =)

Jazz
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