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Noxon iRadio gateway
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-Push your own content onto Noxon iRadio devices:
+Push your own content onto `Noxon iRadio`__ devices:
RSS feeds, text files and MediaTomb server structures.
This tool makes it possible to push own data into the menu
-entries
+entries "Internet Radio", "Podcasts" and "My Noxon" without relying
+on the official Terratec servers.
-- Internet Radio
-- Podcasts
-- My Noxon
+__ http://www.noxonradio.de/
+
+
+.. contents::
+
+
+========
+Features
+========
+- Customize the Noxon iRadio menus "Internet Radio", "Podcasts" and "My Noxon"
+- Show Mediatomb UPnP server content in "Internet Radio", so that you
+ don't have to restart your iRadio because it does not find the UPnP server
+ after a day of standby
+- Display text files and run shell scripts from the menu (home automation)
+- Podcast RSS feed support
+- Discoverable with your web browser
+- Transcoding of non-mp3 file types to ``.mp3`` that iRadios can play
+- Single file mode for children that want to listen to a single story
+ before sleeping
+
+
+RSS feed support
+================
+Simpy write a podcast's mp3 RSS feed URL into a ``.url`` file in
+the ``var/`` directory structure, and your radio will show you a
+folder with all episodes.
+Enter an episode to play it.
+
+The Noxon iRadios do only allow a single HTTP redirect when they access a URL
+to play, but many podcast feeds send you for tracking purposes through 3 or
+more redirects until you reach the final mp3 URL.
+
+noxon-gateway resolves the redirections for the iRadio, so that this will
+not be a problem.
+
+
+Creating an RSS feed
+--------------------
+You have to know the URL to the podcast's mp3 RSS feed, e.g.
+``http://cast.example.org/news.rss``.
+
+Create a file ``Cast News.url`` in ``var/podcasts/`` and write the RSS URL
+into it.
+That's all.
+
+When accessing the "Podcasts" menu from your noxon iRadio, you'll see a
+directory ``Cast News`` that contains all podcast episodes.
+
+
+Single file mode
+================
+Your kid only wants to listen to this one single story before sleeping.
+You start it, set the 15 minute sleep timer and leave the room.
+
+After 15 minutes the child comes out and complains that the radio switched
+off within the second story and it wants to hear it to the end.
+
+To get around such issues, you can enable "single file directories"
+for certain folders.
+
+Each folder with audio files within this configured paths have a special
+directory "Einzeln" (single), which have separate folders for each audio
+file. Each of this separate folders only have the single audio file in them.
+
+When playing this file, the iRadio will stop playing after the one file
+is over.
+
+
+Supported radios
+================
+This is the list of iRadios known to work with ``noxon-gateway``:
+
+- `Noxon iRadio`__ (original white version)
+- `Noxon iRadio cube`__
+
+Others should work.
+If you know of unlisted radios that do work with this tool, please tell me.
+
+__ http://ftp.noxonradio.de/index.php?dir=NOXON%2FNOXON_iRadio%2F
+__ http://ftp.noxonradio.de/index.php?dir=NOXON%2FNOXON_iRadio_Cube%2F
+
+
+Web browser support
+===================
+You can discover the noxon-gateway contents with your web browser.
+Point your browser to the gateway's domain and start browsing:
+
+.. image:: docs/screenshots/browsing.png
+
+This works because the XML files delivered by noxon-gateway contain the
+link to an XSLT__ file that converts the XML structure to HTML that
+browsers understand.
+
+Works at least with Firefox 42 and Chromium 45.
+
+__ http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
===================================
-Customizung the directory structure
+Customizing the directory structure
===================================
The ``var/`` directory contains three directories you can fill with
your own content.
File extensions get removed for display purposes.
+Sorting
+=======
+Files and directory are sorted alphabetically and get listed
+in this order.
+
+You can prefix your files and directories with ``[0-9]+_``,
+which lets you influence sorting and gets removed in the
+listings.
+
+Consider the following files::
+
+ 01_temp.auto.sh
+ 02_warmer.sh
+ 03_colder.sh
+
+Would render as::
+
+ Temperature: 23°C
+ warmer
+ colder
+
+(given that ``01_temp.auto.sh`` outputs the temperature string)
+
+
=====
Setup
=====
gatekeeper.my-noxon.net
+Configure this in your router or the DNS server your iRadio devices use.
+
+
MediaTomb
=========
To be able to browse a MediaTomb server, copy ``data/config.php.dist`` to
``data/config.php`` and fill it with mediatomb web interface credentials.
+You also have to install the `Services_Mediatomb`__ library via `PEAR`__::
+
+ $ pear channel-discover zustellzentrum.cweiske.de
+ $ pear install zz/services_mediatomb-alpha
+
+__ http://zustellzentrum.cweiske.de/index.php?package=Services_MediaTomb
+__ http://pear.php.net/
+
+
+Transcoding
+===========
+If you have non-mp3 files in your audio collection, install `ffmpeg`__
+on the noxon-gateway server.
+Transcoding will start automatically when the player accesses a file
+that is not in ``audio/mpeg`` format.
+
+__ http://ffmpeg.org/
+
+
+===================
+About noxon-gateway
+===================
+
+Homepage
+========
+The source code is available at http://git.cweiske.de/noxon-gateway.git/
+and mirrored at https://github.com/cweiske/noxon-gateway.
+
-=======
License
=======
This application is available under the `AGPL v3`__ or later.
__ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html
-======
Author
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Written by `Christian Weiske`__, cweiske@cweiske.de
git.cweiske.de / noxon-gateway.git / blobdiff