OK, I did a search but I can't find what I am looking for. I seem to remember there being a way to cause popup messages on the player by writing text to a proc file. Anybody know how to make this work?

Thanks,
-Mike

just try :

echo "popup 5 thanks mlord" > /proc/empeg_notify

It will display the text "thanks mlord" for 5 seconds

Very good!

And something similar should also be achievable remotely, by FTPing the same text into /proc/empeg_notify

You can also do it over http:

http://empeg.ip.here/?button=NODATA&POPUP%205%20thanks%20mlord

Will give you the same effect

No Sh*t? I didn't know about that!

Or maybe I did, once..

Whoa, just tried that. That is SO COOL.

/me tries to figure out some way to work that into stuff he's doing.

You can also do it over http

<mischevious smile>Perfect....</mischevious smile>

Thanks,
-Mike

All right, Mike. Come clean. What are you working on?

I dunno, but as soon as Mark found out about this, I started seeing these popups appearing on my player:

Oh yeah, I was doing it the "hard way" with FTP.

Here's the EASY way with FTP:

site popup 5 Thanks, Guys!

Cheers

ha ha

Mm.. yeah, you noticed!

Those aren't the only pop-ups hidden in Hijack..

Cheers

All right, Mike. Come clean. What are you working on?

I am still in the "thinking about it stage", but I am looking at adding some functionality to the EmpMenuX program I recently released. I am thinking of using the empeg display for news/status messages. I poll the empeg every 10 seconds for song info so at the same time I could easily throw up weather info, stock quotes, number of unread posts on the bbs, etc. on the empeg's display. Basically anything I can scrape off a website somewhere.

I was also toying with the idea of showing cover art to match the current song scraped from Amazon on the computer running EmpMenuX.

No promises on either yet though.

-Mike

Awesome! "empbiff" here we come!