Nice... works great!

You can just ssh in and kick off the lastfmproxy by running the debugchumby script.

One error - tuning the proxy streamer, you need to use URLs like this:

http://<chumbyip>:1881/changestation/lastfm://artist/<artistname>/similarartists

For example this works for me...

http://10.0.0.40:1881/changestation/las … larartists

Yay, it's the beatles.

Very cool

Yep, that's what I was doing (I like the control from the web)

Thanks for the update. Any chance the flash widget could let you pick from (at least some of) the saved stations?

Ok, been using this myself for a bit, and I may have to give up on having the lastfmproxy run on the chumby, python sucks too much ram for me, seems to make mr chumby unstable.

Edit: more info.

Normal Chumby, no lastfmproxy:
chumby:/mnt/usb# free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        61928        42144        19784            0         6136
Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        61928        42144        19784

Running lastfmproxy:
chumby:/mnt/usb# free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        61928        46500        15428            0         6176
Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        61928        46500        15428

Streaming:
chumby:/mnt/usb# free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        61928        51240        10688            0         6204
Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        61928        51240        10688

Unfortunately, memory consumption continues to degrade over time. Maybe I should restart the server before each session?

I've found that it just freezes up sometimes after streaming quite a bit of music....

I'm not sure now if its just the normal last.fm issues (if you stream last.fm a lot, you know that sometimes it just sorta freezes up)

I've changed my script to stop the lastfmproxy when not in use, and to restart it when I want to stream... since doing that, it's been pretty stable even streaming for hours on end.

It does suck up a fair bit of what little memory there is, but not much you can do there.

Sorry for the delay getting back to you...

It's also the darn flash widgets - they take a variable about of memory, some suck up an impressive amount when they run...

It's been mostly stable - I had to restart the chumby after about 4 days of being up and streaming a fair bit of that time...

I have hacked the acceld.sh script found elsewhere here, so when you smack the chumby it starts the proxy and then kicks off the streaming... smack it again to stop streaming, and also stop the lastfmproxy. Love that smacking GUI Also added tilt forward/back for screen on/off - retained the tilt left/right for volume control.

I should post the updated script

Hey, quick off-topic question... how/where are you getting the info from the lastfmproxy to display in your flash widget? I'm trying to find the current song info.

Edit... nevermind, found it:

http://localhost:1881/np

beau travail
félicitation et merci
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I've done a "now playing" widget and don't work in chumby, i'll try your hack..

Sorry, me no speak techie.

Any chance this will ever see life as a dummie-proof widget?

The way it alternates is it uses the timer movieClip that was in your .fla, and just uses the enable/disable_buttons function with a whole lot more commands:

function disable_buttons()
{
    trace("disabling buttons");
    this.btn_container._visible = false;
    this.cur_artist._visible = false;
    this.cur_title._visible = false;
    this.cur_album._visible = false;
    this.clock._visible = false;
    this.bigClock._visible = true;
}
function enable_buttons()
{
    trace("enabling buttons");
    this.btn_container._visible = true;
    this.cur_artist._visible = true;
    this.cur_title._visible = true;
    this.cur_album._visible = true;
    this.clock._visible = true;
    this.bigClock._visible = false;
}

Take a look in the .fla if you're interested

I also fixed the lagging problem by killing and relaunching the process every 24 hours via crontabs.

Are you saying you want to share the memory stick between the chumby and your computer? You can't do that - the chumby needs its own USB stick connected to it for this (and any other chumby hack) to work. I'd suggest just going out and getting a tiny 128MB USB stick for it - they're so cheap anyway.

If you're really curious, you might be able to copy the files to the chumby's in-memory file system, and start the lastfmproxy manually - not sure about the space available. Not something I've tried though.

Just tested it - works for me. Maybe it was periodic thing and last.fm was down? I haven't been using it much lately, so haven't noticed any downtime.