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Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by zachruss92 »

Tarsul wrote: post #30

the solution involves buying a 100 euro product with 6 customizable buttons (cool product but expensive). Anyone know of cheaper alternatives for a keyboard buttonset (between 4 and 20 keys)? Probably standalone numpad (with customizable keys) comes closest but maybe someone knows better.

You could do it with like an Arduino and any kind of button. There are tons of examples of using an Arduino to run a keyboard's firmware.

Another project i've done was with a Rasberry pi. A benefit of that would be that the system is self contained. Their Python GPIO library is one of the easiest i've ever worked with and you could have it easily launch Chrome or Firefox programmatically and play audio without a monitor.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by kingsuper20 »

That's a really good idea.

For reasons I won't trouble anyone with, I've been educating myself with accessibility features on computers/phones/tablets, smart speakers, appliances, etc. It's funny how much shittier it all is than it could be.

It certainly hasn't helped that the button-per-function thinking in consumer product design has been largely replaced with low cost small displays. Maybe I'll design a piano that uses sub-menus to play each note.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by [deleted] »

Tarsul wrote: post #30

the solution involves buying a 100 euro product with 6 customizable buttons (cool product but expensive). Anyone know of cheaper alternatives for a keyboard buttonset (between 4 and 20 keys)? Probably standalone numpad (with customizable keys) comes closest but maybe someone knows better.

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Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by keyrat »

I have a standalone internet radio device because I also wanted buttons.

To find streams I usually use Radio Garden: http://radio.garden

Use the network inspector while browsing stations and you'll find a working URL to the stream you can use anywhere.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by toast0 »

progman32 wrote: post #24
toast0 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI - browsers with https-only mode enabled are broken, which makes it hard to access HTTP only sites.

Broken is in the eye of the beholder. Why the hard stance?

These plugins are based on a wrong assumption that the scheme is not an important part of the url. For some urls, the assumption works; for others, it doesn't and the result is an interminable stream of messages complaining that something is broken. The thing that is broken is the assumption.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by dylan604 »

nitrogen wrote: post #26
mattowen_uk wrote: post #3

Slightly off-topic, but as much as I like all these low-tech websites (and I really do!) - I think I need some sort of extension that does this: body { max-width:900px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } Because trying to read full width text on modern resolutions is way too wide, and I don't even run my browser full screen - I have no idea how people that do, can read it.

Might also try resizing the browser window. It's kind of a waste to have a single app fill the entire screen, just to put blank bars on the sides.

> It's kind of a waste

To you. What I or someone not you does is up to them. For example, keeping a window full screen might have a lot of empty/negative space, but sometimes that's the desired effect to cover up all of the other things attempting to grab one's attention without having to hide/minimize other windows.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by AgoRapide »

stonesweep wrote: post #22

If the author is reading this, you've hit/stumbled on "HTTP Live Streaming" radios which are sort of the next evolution of classic Shoutcast/Icecast generated streams. There are better clients for it out there than Chrome which could probably enhance the experience (proper audio controls, etc.): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming#Clients

I am reading this, just been busy with some errands last hour :)

Thanks for the tip, a dedicated application in combination with Stream Deck sounds even better.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by IshKebab »

Tarsul wrote: post #30

the solution involves buying a 100 euro product with 6 customizable buttons (cool product but expensive). Anyone know of cheaper alternatives for a keyboard buttonset (between 4 and 20 keys)? Probably standalone numpad (with customizable keys) comes closest but maybe someone knows better.

I've looked but they don't seem to exist. Closest I found was MIDI pad controllers (around £40) but I'm not sure about the ergonomics of using a pad as a button.

I gave up and went with an Mbed board instead. It has the advantage that you can program key sequences without writing any host software. I use it with Audacity.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by AgoRapide »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #20
q3k wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just because there is something on this domain listening on :443 and serving HTTPS, doesn't mean it has to serve the same content as the HTTP on :80, or even work at all. Always-redirect-to-HTTPs plugins _are_ broken by assuming otherwise.

> doesn't mean it has to serve the same content as the HTTP Of course, that's the exact reason I wrote the original comment.

Author here. I took a look in IIS Admin and is unable to see WHERE did I ask it to serve https. I thought I was http only. The bindings only say http, both for the bef.no site and for the 'Default Web Site'.

Re: Show HN: Giving my mother-in-law an easy internet radio with real icon buttons

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Post by Aardwolf »

mattowen_uk wrote: post #3

Slightly off-topic, but as much as I like all these low-tech websites (and I really do!) - I think I need some sort of extension that does this: body { max-width:900px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; } Because trying to read full width text on modern resolutions is way too wide, and I don't even run my browser full screen - I have no idea how people that do, can read it.

I almost always have 2 vertical side by side windows (meta+left and meta+right shortcuts), that's useful about wide high resolutions
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