Developer:Davaar:SenderService
Contents
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.
Openhome senders should be discovered independently of the standard algorithm for discovering Openhome products and sources. An independent search should be made for devices bearing the Sender service.
A Sender can be played using 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 : Sender
Version : 1
