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Welcome to the sbController wiki!

sbController is a widget for your Chumby that displays the current track and playlist on your Squeezebox (or any other device attached to your SqueezeCenter, including the Chumby itself).

There are already some out there, e.g.

• http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=1218&p=2

But they weren’t to my liking, so here’s my take on it.

Right now, the implemented actions are -

• pause/unpause
• next track
• previous track

See this project’s issues for some kind of roadmap – http://github.com/slai/sbController/issues

It is based on the Chumby widget example provided here – http://wiki.chumby.com/mediawiki/index.php/FlashDevelop/FlickrPhotoViewer

Installation

You will need a Chumby, a USB drive connected to it, and a SqueezeCenter instance. This has only been tested on SqueezeCenter 7.2.1.

1. Download the latest version at – http://github.com/slai/sbController/downloads
2. Extract the contents to the root of your Chumby’s USB drive. If profile.xml already exists, DO NOT overwrite it. Instead, rename the existing one, extract sbController’s profile.xml and manually merge. Otherwise you will lose your other custom widgets.
3. Open up profile.xml on the USB drive in a text editor. Notepad is not recommended due to the Unix line endings.
4. In the widget parameters section, fill in your SqueezeCenter address/port and the cauth value. See the instructions in there to determine your cauth value.
5. Save profile.xml.
6. Plug the USB drive back into Chumby and reboot – you should now see the sbController widget in your widget list.

Usage

It’s pretty straight forward. I’ll let you play around and work it out :)

Feedback

Feel free to add issues to this project or the forum thread on the Chumby forums.