talking with the empeg

Hi,

does anybody tried to connect to the empeg ?
What about PPP over USB or something like that ?
At the moment it seems to be a very closed system without any possibilities to develop programs for it.

bobo

It's not closed at all - yes, with the "consumer" image on the player, there's just the player and nothing else on the hard disk. However, if you use the "developer" image, you can quit the player and get a shell prompt. On the disk are the usual unix tools, glibc2.1, plus rz/sz (download your own programs to the unit). /dev/hda2 is a 32Mb blank (not mkfs'ed) partition for your own stuff which won't get blatted by upgrades.

As for the protocol the player talks when running, we'll shortly be publishing the source to a client which talks to the server running in the player (read/write files, control the player, grab screen images, etc). Remember our programming effort here is limited, and it's currently best spent improving the software on the unit rather than writing docs on the internal protocols for people to read :)

Hugo

ok, if I would have a developer-image - I agree its very open :-)
but where to get the developer-image ?

bobo

sorry - I already found the link on the last page of the manual :)

http://www2.empeg.com/upgrades/

bobo

Remember our programming effort here is limited, and it's currently best spent improving the software on the unit

;^)

Need any programmers, Hugo? I'd be willing to move back to Cambridge and work for peanuts....

if you get a unit with a consumer image can this be upgraded to a
developer image. ?

Yes, you can switch images whenever you want by just running the upgrader with the appropriate image file.

Hugo

EXCELENT job on the updater code by the way.

It makes it almost a no brainer to upgrade, hold on I think it really was. :>

Now if I could only do this with my TV, I just might have upgraded it to HDTV, humm, now were was that USB port...

Kamau Wanguhu
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