HouseBot

Hi Scott,



I am new to HouseBot, so I hope this is not a dumb question!

I am trying to arrange that I can control the music on my PC, using a Software Remote running on my PDA. I've figured out most of the stuff that I need, but there's just a couple of questions that I could not find answers for in the help.



Firstly, I can't work out how to make Winamp skip forward and backward through tracks in the playlist. I know I can set the 'Current Playlist Item' property to anything I want, but I need to be able to set it to One More or One Less than its previous value.



Secondly, I was wondering whether there was any way of controlling the playback volume in Winamp via a slider on the Software Remote. I couldn't find any way of doing that.



Oh, and I'll just quickly put in a request while I'm here... A file-filter would be very handy in the Directory control, so that I can just browse MP3 files if I want to.



Thanks for your help!

And keep up the good work - I have been very impressed with HB so far.





James

James,



You can skip forward and backward through a playlist by incrementing or decrementing the "Play List Song Number" Property value. With a "Property Change" button, setting the "New Value" to "+=1" will move ahead one and setting it to "-=1" will move back one.



Volume?? Who needs that? I can't believe I missed it. My system plays through my main system amp, so I've always just adjusted the volume on the amp. I've just added a volume property to the WinAmp Device that should do what you want. You can download it from "www.housebot.com/HouseBot/WinAmpDevice.zip". Copy the DLL in the zip file into the HouseBot\Plugins\Devices directory over the old one. You will need to deleted the old WinAmp Device and create a new one to get the new Property (sorry). With this Property you should now be able to map a slider control to it to control the volume.



I've added the directory filter to the list. It's a good suggestion.



Scott

Thanks for your quick response Scott!



I'll download the new plugin and try it out



James

stu97jmp wrote:Hi Scott,
Oh, and I'll just quickly put in a request while I'm here... A file-filter would be very handy in the Directory control, so that I can just browse MP3 files if I want to.
James

James,



The latest release now has the ability to specify file extensions as filters to the Directory Theme control.



Thanks for the idea.

Scott

Could the same increment/decrement be done in a task? Just trying to go back and forth in a playlist using a keychain remote :) Very impressive software, by the way. Thanks for the help

Unfortunately, you can't use += or -= in Task 'Action'.



You could have a Task call a Script Device and do it in VBScript.



Scott

I'll try that approach. Thanks :)