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lcd-stuff ========= Description ----------- lcd-stuff is a client for lcdproc written in C. Features -------- * display of e-mail using POP3, IMAP and local mailboxes * MPD control * display of news items using RSS * display of the weather from weather.com * play web radio with MPlayer (because it has support for almost every format, especially RealAudio, which MPD hasn't) Requirements ------------ * 20×4 display * lcdproc, of course * CMake * C compiler * glib * mail - libetpan * weather - nxml - curl (required by nxml) * mpd - libmpd (>= 0.12.0) * rss - mrss - nxml - curl (required by nxml) * mplayer (optional, only at runtime) Installation ------------ * mkdir build * cd build * cmake .. * make * make install If you don't have all libraries installed and you don't need the features, you can use following parameters for the cmake run to disable the libraries and their corresponding features: -DBUILD_RSS=OFF disables rss -DBUILD_WEATHER=OFF disables weather -DBUILD_MAIL=OFF disables mail -DBUILD_MPD=OFF disables mpd Usage ----- Just as every lcdproc client. Type "lcd-stuff -h" for more information. An example configuration file is supplied with lcd-stuff (lcd-stuff.conf). The documentation for all the various parameters is contained below. Keys ---- mail, rss: Up and Down select previous or next item mpd: Up: when playing (i.e. not pause), selects the next tile when pausing, then stops playback Down: toggles between play and pause mplayer: Up: toggle between play and pause Down: Stop Remote Interface ---------------- This program itself has a remote interface to be controlled from another computer. See the [network] entry of the configuration file below. By default, the network interface is disabled for security reasons! The only client that implements the interface is the mplayer client. It's a simple text protocol: mplayer command args And command can be one of: streams Returns a list of stream names, the same as shown in the menu. play <number> Plays stream <number>. Counting starts with 0. pause_play Toggles playback and pause of the current stream. stop Stops playing the current stream. In the scripts directory of the source distribution, there's a sample client written in Python that implements these commands. It's both meant as usable client and as example. Configuration file ------------------ The configuration file is in a INI-style format. As parser, the glib2 "Key-value file parser" is used which is documented at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Key-value-file-parser.html. In the description below, following place holders are used <str> A simple text which may contain spaces. There's _no_ need to escape spaces with backslash or something else. <no> A continuous number, starting with 0 and increased each time. You'll see below the sense of this <no> stuff. <int> A number in decimal representation. <list> Not any arbitrary string but a string from a list that is listed in the description on the right. <bool> "true" or "false" Now, the options for each client are explained. It's legal to leave out a client in the configuration file which means that this client doesn't get displayed. [mail] name=<str> This is the name that is shown as title for the mail screen. Default: Mail interval=<int> The update interval in seconds at which lcd-stuff looks for new mails. Default: 300 number_of_servers=<int> The number of mail servers to check. The number is read to retrieve the information that is specific for the mail server below. Default: 0 name<no>=<str> The name for the server which gets displayed in the title. Default: Server name type<no>1=<list> The type of the server, currently "pop3" and "imap" are supported. For local mailboxes, "maildir" (for the maildir format which stores mails in three subdirectories named "cur", "tmp" and "new), "mbox" (for the mbox format, which stores all mails in a single file) and "mh" (stores each mail in a file, but all in one directory) are supported. Default: pop3 server<no>=<str> The server that contains the mailbox, e.g. "pop3.gmx.net" if your mail provider is GMX. For local mailboxes use "localhost". Default: no default user<no>=<str> The user name for the login. Not required when using local mailboxes. Default: empty string password<no>=<str> The password for the login. Please set the permissions of the file so that no other user from your system can read your mail passwords. Not required when using mailboxes. Default: no default mailbox_name<no>=<str> When type=imap, this variable holds the name of the mailbox to check for new mail. For pop3, this is ignored. For local mailboxes, you have to specify the full path for the box, e.g. /home/user/mail/inbox. Default: INBOX hidden<no>=<bool> Show only the number of mails in the first line but don't browse through the mails with author and subject Default: false [rss] interval=<int> The update interval at which the RSS feeds are retrieved. Currently, there's no check if the feed was updated, always the complete titles are retrieved and updated. Default: 1800 (= 30 min) number_of_feeds=<int> The number of RSS feeds to retrieve. The number is read to retrieve the information that is specific for the RSS feed below. Default: 0 url<no>=<str> The URL to the feed. Default: no default items<no>=<int> The number of items to retrieve. This is counted from new to old, so if e.g. items=10, the 10 latest items are shown. Default: 0 name<no>=<str> The name that is shown in the title for the feed. Default: no default [weather] name=<str> The title that is used for the weather screen. Default: Weather interval=<int> The update interval for the weather. Default: 3600 (= 1 h) citycode=<str> The city code that can be retrieved from http://www.weather.com/. Just enter your city in the search box, click on the city. Then you can extract the code from the URL. For example, GMXX0096 stands for Nürnberg in Germany. Default: no default unit=<str> Switches between metric units like Celsius ("metric") and imperial units like Fahrenheit ("imperial"). Default: metric [mpd] name=<str> The title for the MPD screen. server=<str> The server name, can also be "localhost" if the MPD server is running on the same machine. Default: localhost port=<int> The port number where the MPD accepts connections. Default: 6600 timeout=<int> Timeout for MPD connections in seconds. Default: 10 [mplayer] name=<str> The title for the mplayer screen that is displayed if you select a station from the lcdproc menu. Default: Webradio <str>=<str> For each stream, a key value pair with station=url must be used. This should save typing instead of the scheme which is used for E-Mail and RSS feeds [1]. If the URL is a play list, then the prefix "playlist " has to be used. This is simply because mplayer cannot determine if it's a playlist automatically but the starter has to give the "-playlist" parameter. Examples: DLF=http://dradio-ogg.t-bn.de/dlf_high.ogg Bayern2=playlist ... ...http://www.br-online.de/streaming/... ...bayern2radio/bayern2radio_m20.red.smil [network] Adding this entry without any key/values enables the network interface. By default, the network interface is disabled. DON'T USE THIS OPTION IF YOUR COMPUTER IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET. IT'S DESIGNED FOR SMALL HOME NETWORKS ONLY! port=<int> The port where a remote client can connect to. Default: 12454 License, Author --------------- lcd-stuff was written by Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>. It's licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
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