Slimmer

A user interface controller software for Logitech Media Server.

Basically it's a hub between LMS, LCDProc and standard linux keyboard events. For more information visit the Slimmer wiki.

Quickstart

You can download binary packages for the piCorePlayer image running on a Raspberry PI from here. See this wiki page for instructions.

How to build

Requirements

• a C++ build environment supporting C++11
• CMake 3.1.0+
• lcdapi library with development files (headers)
• curl library with development files (headers)
• ICU library with development files (headers)

Basic build process

git clone https://github.com/terba/slimmer.git
mkdir slimmer-build
cd slimmer-build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../slimmer
make

For embedded systems use the following cmake command to optimize for size:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=MinSizeRel ../slimmer

After a successful build you can find the executable named slimmer in the build directory.

For more information visit the For developers wiki page.

Usage

You can configure Slimmer through command line arguments. For general usage see the User manual.

Usage:
   ./slimmer  [-v] [-s <ip or hostname>] [-p <number>] [-l <ip or
              hostname>] [-P <number>] [-m <AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF>] [-f] [-o
              <0-100>] [-i <input device file>] [-e <single-byte encoding>]
              [-c <0-10>] [--] [--version] [-h]

Where: 
   -v,  --verbose
     be verbose

   -s <ip or hostname>,  --lmshost <ip or hostname>
     LMS host (default: autodiscovery)

   -p <number>,  --lmsport <number>
     LMS HTTP port (default: autodiscovery)

   -l <ip or hostname>,  --lcdhost <ip or hostname>
     lcdproc host (default: localhost)

   -P <number>,  --lcdport <number>
     lcdproc port (default: 13666)

   -m <AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF>,  --mac <AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF>
     the player's MAC address (default: automatic, first interface)

   -f,  --fixedvolume
     volume control disabled

   -o <0-100>,  --volume <0-100>
     set volume on startup

   -i <input device file>,  --input <input device file>
     keyboard input device file(s). Use comma to delimit multiple input files. (default: /dev/input/event0)

   -e <single-byte encoding>,  --encoding <single-byte encoding>
     the LCD's character encoding (default: ISO-8859-1)

   -c <0-10>,  --scrollspeed <0-10>
     text scrolling speed (default: 3)

   --,  --ignore_rest
     Ignores the rest of the labeled arguments following this flag.

   --version
     Displays version information and exits.

   -h,  --help
     Displays usage information and exits.


   Copyright (C) 2016-2017  Terényi, Balázs ([email protected])

   This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
   and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See
   LINCENSE file in the source distribution.

Exiting

To exit from Slimmer press Ctrl+c.

Run as a daemon

To run Slimmer as a daemon you can use and adapt the init script located in the scripts folder of the sources. It is meant to be used on Tiny Core style distributions (piCore, piCorePlayer), so it doesn't contain LSB headers used on more sophisticated distros.