UrsiMon's blog

I am obsessed with LED displays. Every time I see some large LED display I see blocks falling, snakes, pac-mans…different things. But those are not accessible even when I ask to…too bad – but I won’t give up that easily!

So I got that Roku Soundbridge europe version branded as Pinnacle Soundbridge HomeMusic, which is stripped down original Roku Soundbridge, but with sd card flash memory support. But it’s nearly the same. It has wi-fi, supports radio, streaming from your sound server either on PC or router. Lately I was using it only for radio streams, its display is often not used, but the device is in stand-by all the time. I asked myself:


Wouldn’t it be cool to display TWITTER feed on this display?

YES, it would be…so here it is how it looks:

I began googling around and found that Soundbridge has telnet interface on port 4444, which allows you to control via command sketch write messages on display. So – there is a way.

Other was just some dirty hacking using php for xml/rss retrieval/processing and then command line CURL for telneting it to your Roku.

Download my solution from here (1) or here (2) and see install instructions.

It’s very dirty hack, I see numerous ways how to improve it, but it is enough for my purposes – feel free to hack it or just inspire yourself for your own solution.

You can e.g. get rid of PHP altogether and/or the most great thing would be able to run it independently on the device itself and not pushing it via another device, but that is too difficult for me, eventhough I know there are some ways to hack it and I saw some interesting hack which allows to display weather and other stuff on your Roku… (but I don’t want to brick it myself…)

Czech-only – about cz-only Android app for SMS bus reservation.

If you already don’t know this – then hear: Torchlight is a great game with great graphics, surprisingly not demanding strong PC. If you have ever played Diablo, then you will like this one. Download demo on Steam and/or full version.

end of fun… konec zabavy…
http://www.slashgear.com/google-maps-navigation-hack-blocked-outside-of-us-0865483/

This post is about Google Maps Navigation for Android 1.6, see: this and more importantly for EU functions: here

Enough of technologies! This blog is not commercial a not only about technology…

Happiness time! As far as I remember I was on big names of reggae: Max Romeo, Luciano, Buju Banton…and now they are serving us The Congos ! I never considered them as uber-popular, but I have to pay respect to them…they are classical reggae band from the golden age of reggae (1977). Their hit “fisherman: has been remade numerously by various artists; other track I like includes: Don’t blame it on I, Food for the Rainy Day, Thief is in the Vineyard. And now they will be here…in prague…on 15th of November 2009 in Lucerna Music Bar. See you there.

This post is about SMS ticket app for Android, usable only in CZ