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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 tga »

amelius wrote: post #2

Even easier (from the user's perspective) solution: 1. Make a photo of her own radio. 2. Put that photo on a tablet device. 3. Allow her to click on the photo where the buttons are. 4. Adjust stations/volume accordingly. Next step: physically operate her own radio remotely :) Or: let her bring her own radio, and use internet and an FM transmitter to relay the signals.

Given an Android phone or tablet, you can get sticky NFC tags and make the device play the corresponding stream when it touches one. Stick them to photos with the radio station logo, and you’ve got a record player / Toniebox.

The tablet never unlocks, so you don’t have to worry about UI quirks.

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

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Post by AgoRapide »

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.

By the way, while we are discussing readability, important message to all hipsters: We boomers prefer high contrast, that is black text on white background.

Sites with grey text on grey background I usually skip.

Once Firefox was my web browser because it has a very easy setting for forcing exactly this (black on white).

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

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Post by rakoo »

toast0 wrote: post #13
seba_dos1 wrote: post #5

FYI - access to the site via HTTPS is broken, which makes it hard to access on browsers with https-only mode enabled.

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

Are we still arguing for HTTP-only sites ?

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

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Post by tootie »

raesene9 wrote: post #4

Stream decks are really nice, I got one recently and have been playing around with various uses. So far I've hooked it up to auto-post things to a Slack (using IFTTT) and done bindings for a MMORPG (DDO) as well as it's intended use (scene switching in OBS) All works fine and it's pretty easy to setup.

I'm confused on what the stream deck actually is. And the elgato site is overloaded with motion graphics. Is it basically just a grid of buttons with LCDs backing them? So you can attach a dynamic icon to each button and pressing it will run some macro on the host PC?

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

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Post by AgoRapide »

tootie wrote: post #44
raesene9 wrote: post #4

Stream decks are really nice, I got one recently and have been playing around with various uses. So far I've hooked it up to auto-post things to a Slack (using IFTTT) and done bindings for a MMORPG (DDO) as well as it's intended use (scene switching in OBS) All works fine and it's pretty easy to setup.

I'm confused on what the stream deck actually is. And the elgato site is overloaded with motion graphics. Is it basically just a grid of buttons with LCDs backing them? So you can attach a dynamic icon to each button and pressing it will run some macro on the host PC?

Yes

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

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Post by tootie »

amelius wrote: post #2

Even easier (from the user's perspective) solution: 1. Make a photo of her own radio. 2. Put that photo on a tablet device. 3. Allow her to click on the photo where the buttons are. 4. Adjust stations/volume accordingly. Next step: physically operate her own radio remotely :) Or: let her bring her own radio, and use internet and an FM transmitter to relay the signals.

Another option is cut out a template in vinyl or even just some card stock (or 3d print if you can). Position each stream source icon behind the open spots. That being said, tablets aren't likely to cheaper than the device he's using.

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

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Post by AgoRapide »

rakoo wrote: post #43
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.

Are we still arguing for HTTP-only sites ?

I would link to implement https since almost all other sites I surf on now are https by default.

But the last time I tried it with multiple domains pointing to the same server it was too cumbersome.

And having to renew the certificate is also not very appealing for a small hobby site.

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

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Post by rakoo »

amelius wrote: post #2

Even easier (from the user's perspective) solution: 1. Make a photo of her own radio. 2. Put that photo on a tablet device. 3. Allow her to click on the photo where the buttons are. 4. Adjust stations/volume accordingly. Next step: physically operate her own radio remotely :) Or: let her bring her own radio, and use internet and an FM transmitter to relay the signals.

Even even easier: hack an existing radio, have its buttons interact with a raspberry pi and use mopidy on that raspi: https://mopidy.com/

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

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Post by mattowen_uk »

PowerfulWizard wrote: post #21
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 grew up reading the newspaper every day and I prefer quite a narrow margin, here is my bookmarklet for narrowing pages (and it changes font).: javascript:!function(){var e,t;e='body {margin: auto;margin-left: 100px;max-width: 540px;font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;}',t=document.createElement("style"),t.type="text/css",t.appendChild(document.createTextNode(e)),document.getElementsByTagName("head"…

I didn't think of doing this! I'll edit your snippet to do just the css I need and save it as a bookmark(let). Cheers!

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

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Post by em-bee »

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.

resizing the browser window messes with the other tabs which i do prefer in fullscreen, so i'd have to switch back and forth
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