Slimcontrol 0.3 - Control your Squeezebox with a Dashboard widget

Daz — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:10:00 +0000

Here's a dashboard widget i've been working on.

I wanted a way to control my Squeezebox from the mac dashboard and found the Slimcontrol widget. With changes to slimserver (and maybe OSX) since it was last maintained quite a few things didn't work but luckily the author GPLed it when he stopped working on it so I fixed the bits that weren't working and added display of cover art, plus the "cd player" look :-)

I am using SlimServer Version 6.5.0 and OSX 10.4.8 - if you have problems please state your versions.

Download from the google code project page.

If you can't get it to work with cauth (I couldn't) then you can get it to work by switching cauth off in your slimserver preferences.

There are still some things that could be improved and some bugs I noticed.

Known bugs:
If the dashboard hasn't been shown for a while it can lose connection to the server.

Todo:
Style the volume slider - i've trawled the documentation and failed to find a way to do it, the alternative is a DHTML replacement which would make a round knob possible :-)

Once and Only Once : Tag squeezebox

Slimcontrol 0.3 - Control your Squeezebox with a Dashboard widget