Developer:Davaar:SenderService
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Architectural Overview
The Sender service indicates the presence of and provides information concerning an Openhome Sender.
An Openhome Sender broadcasts music on a network in a way that is playable by an Openhome Receiver.
Actions
Attributes
Reports a space separated list of attributes that identify additional functionality that can be found on the same device as this Sender.
Currently defined attributes are:
Info - this device reports on the current media using the Info service Time - this device reports on the current media using the Time service
Audio
Reports whether audio is currently present on this sender.
Metadata
Provides a representation of this audio item in DIDL-Lite format.
PresentationUrl
Reports the Url of a presentation page for further information concerning the sender, or for controlling the sender in some application secific way.
If this sender has no presentation page, the PresentationUrl should be empty.
Status
Reports the status of the sender (normally only for debugging purposes):
- Sending - currently sending out audio
- Ready - ready to send audio but no listeners
- Blocked - audio from another sender detected on the same channel
- Inactive - currently no audio to send on this channel
- Disabled - sender disabled by user configuration
Technical Details
Domain : av.openhome.org
Name : Info
Version : 1
Info Service Description (XML)
Migration Guide From Cara
The domain for the Info service has changed to av.openhome.org
Actions
Counters
The arguments have changed their names as follows:
- aTrackCount -> TrackCount
- aDetailsCount -> DetailsCount
- aMetatextCount -> MetatextCount
Track
The arguments have changed their names as follows:
- aUri -> Uri
- aMetadata -> Metadata
Details
The arguments have changed their names as follows:
- aDuration -> Duration
- aBitRate -> BitRate
- aBitDepth -> BitDepth
- aSampleRate -> SampleRate
- aLossless -> Lossless
- aCodecName -> CodecName
Metatext
The argument has changed its name as follows:
- aMetatext -> Value
