Thread: The next wave of plugins! Pt 1/2

aren't there other traffic providers as well? don't really know if any of the providers are better then others, but i think 'a' traffic plugin would be nice..

i have both a slacker, and pandora account(until seeing this, i forgot about the slacker account), so that really doesn't matter-- i think that both of them are pretty close in functionality-- so while i voted for slacker, i would rate it very low on the list being that you already have a functional pandora plugin..

Originally Posted by soundman98

aren't there other traffic providers as well? don't really know if any of the providers are better then others, but i think 'a' traffic plugin would be nice..

You would think so....but at this point Navteq has bought up all the competition (afaik). They are the only ones that collect the data and then sell access to it. So its really just a matter of how we got access to navteqs traffic feed. In this case, yahoo provides free access though a well designed API so we picked them.

Bluetooth support.

Aux-in Plugin.

Radio Timeshifting.

3/5 plugins have been chosen (based on the above poll) and work has begun:

Facebook Integration - 10% complete
Native Email - 60% complete
Aux-In Plugin - 0% complete

Aux in was on my list to do already so good suggestion CraziFuzzy lol. Should have something ready in the next week or two (or with our .8 release depending on how things time out).

Originally Posted by heezer7

Aux in was on my list to do already so good suggestion CraziFuzzy lol. Should have something ready in the next week or two (or with our .8 release depending on how things time out).

so how do you envisioning the aux input plugin to work?

I was working with mitch a ways back about trying to do something in riderunner that would monitor an aux input, and mute other sources if an audio signal was detected. My particular idea was for a UHF radio in scan mode, that would mute music being played if someone was on the air. this would also work for scanners, and even portable music players. IT kinda fell by the wayside, but I'm going to try to resurrect.

Originally Posted by DaveDog

so how do you envisioning the aux input plugin to work?

I was working with mitch a ways back about trying to do something in riderunner that would monitor an aux input, and mute other sources if an audio signal was detected. My particular idea was for a UHF radio in scan mode, that would mute music being played if someone was on the air. this would also work for scanners, and even portable music players. IT kinda fell by the wayside, but I'm going to try to resurrect.

i don't think this would be auto-triggering just a selectable source.

That wouldn't be too hard to do though...just need to find a dev interested in writing it:
http://wiki.medialooks.com/Audio_Lev...tion_%26_Usage

Hmm, had not thought about auto switching. Kind of interesting now that I think about it. Say you use an android phone as your nav, but playing music from the carpc. Could then have the music stop for the nav instructions. Version 1 is definitely going to be a manual selectable thing, but I will keep the auto part in mind for a possible v2.

I figure the Aux-in shouldn't be much more than the HD Radio plugin with a LOT of stuff ripped out.