a.k.a. stuff I can't have (yes, I already went and read stuff on Riovolution)

in RMM Lite:
-discovery so I don't have to type in IP addresses
-a way of updating firmware that doesn't involve a Windows machine

and generally:
-enough information that a USB driver can be written for non-Windows

-enough information that a USB driver can be written for non-Windows

This isn't very likely, at least with the current firmware, because it wouldn't be very useful -- it's a read/write sector kind of interface, which means the PC needs to implement the filesystem, and Karma uses an extremely proprietary and icky filesystem. Non-Windows is what the Ethernet interface is for.

IMO (but there are other opinions at Rio) the best answer would be a so-called "mass storage class" player, one where you plug it in and with no drivers at all it becomes another drive letter, like Ipods and digital cameras do, due to having a standard Fat32 filesystem.

Peter

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I was going to write this towards the end, but got nervous about adding a new feature in at the last minute. Hopefully in a firmware in the not-to-distant future it will switch back to an applet and it will know the IP address of its launcher.

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Haven't heard if this is possible without USB yet ... If it IS possible, maybe they'd let me port this.

ms

Sure, but no firmware updater for non-Windows implies I need USB for it, so, given that...

Sure, but no firmware updater for non-Windows implies I need USB for it, so, given that...

I'll bet that if they really wanted to, they could implement a firmare updater with ethernet.

It would have to be similar the empeg, where, if the ethernet firmware updater failed, the only fallback would be PC and serial/usb. But as long as it worked, you're OK.

That would be fine. Needing to boot a VirtualPC (which at the moment is being fussy) to update firmware is sort of crappy.