Announcing Squeezecontrol for N900

9. februar 2011 af Mikkel Munch Mortensen

I just released a very simple first edition of my new app for the Nokia N900: Squeezecontrol. As the name suggests, this is a remote control program for Logitech Squeezeboxes.

As of now, it only support play/pause, skipping and turning the volume up/down. More features will be added very soon. But I thought I'd better get it out as fast as possible, as these basic features may be helpful for all owners of N900+Squeezebox(es).

I'm sure I'm not the only one that has been waiting for the Squeezeplay for Maemo project to get to a useful point. It's sounds almost like a dream: Having the official Squeezebox software running on your N900. A Squeezebox inside your phone. How cool is that? Unfortunately, the project seems to have lost attention from it's developers.

I'm not smart enough to join the Squeezeplay project. I don't know enough about C-programming to do any good there. But I realized that I could make another app, using my favourite language: Python. It will not be able to act as a Squeezebox, but it's fairly easy to make a remote control for Squeezebox, thanks to the Squeezebox Server command line interface and the great work of JingleManSweep and his pysqueezecenter Python wrapper library for the CLI.

So, yesterday evening I started. And here is the first, very basic edition. I hope someone else will find it useful. At least It will be a great help for myself.

Squeezecontrol is available in the extras-devel repository. Install via the App Manager or via the terminal: apt-get install squeezecontrol. Remeber to update your repository catalogues. And make sure it's version 0.0.1-5 that get's installed. anything < 5 doesn't work (becase I'm an idiot).

Just for the records: There's also an announcement thread at TMO.

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