Open Smart Environment - Icecast

This package makes it possible to search for Icecast streams in the Icecast directory (http://dir.xiph.org)

It defines the icecast stream entry kind and registers it as a source to Media player.

See Media player example.

Important links

This package is a part of the OSE suite. For more information, see the following links:

• Icecast documentation
• OSE suite documentation
• All packages

About OSE

Open Smart Environment software is a suite for creating multi-instance applications that work as a single whole. Imagine, for example, a personal mesh running on various devices including HTPCs, phones, tablets, workstations, servers, Raspberry Pis, home automation gadgets, wearables, drones, etc.

OSE software consists of several npm packages: a framework running on Node.js, an HTML5 frontend, extending packages and a set of example applications.

Set-up of current example applications. Here, OSE provides a Media player running on an HTPC that can be controlled by an IR remote through LIRC and is capable of playing streams from a DVB streamer and control devices through GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi

For more information about OSE see the documentation.

Status

• Pre-alpha stage (insecure and buggy)
• Unstable API
• Patchy documentation
• Low test coverage (1 %)

This is not yet a piece of download-and-use software. It is important to understand the basic principles covered by the documentation.

However, this software is successfully and continuously used since end of 2013 in one installation running 7 OSE instances spread over several Raspberries, HTPC and notebook.

Platforms

OSE has the following prerequisites:

• Node.js (>0.12) running on Debian Jessie and Raspbian
• Recent version of Firefox or Chrome browser

Licence

This software is released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence v3.0 or later.