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Where’s that sound coming from? Geez! it’s a Fonera 2.0!

Beethoven is playing a nice piano sonata somewhere he would have never expected! The Fonera 2.0 keeps growing and showing new abilities: now it’s a jukebox!

What do you need?

  • Fonera 2.0
  • USB 2.0 HUB
  • Cheap USB audio card - or any similar model (the cheaper the better: they don’t lack quality)
  • USB hard drive or Pendrive
  • Speakers
  • mp3 music

What do you get? A device able to play your music. either single songs, full directories or m3u playlists (yes, we used a standard) from your hard drive. You can let it playing and turn off your laptop.

Here you have a screenshot :)

Audiocli the audio player in the Fonera 2.0
This is nice, isn’t it? But we don’t think it’s enough… we have nice plans for the future. Some people is already thinking of controlling their F2 audio player with bluetooth devices. Another good idea that will come soon playing streams from the Internet: Jamendo has already made a great progress and have a plugin almost ready and Egon Zastler also started working on last.fm.

And then what? How about streaming music from the Fonra 2.0 to another device? You store the music on your HardDrive in the fonera and it sends it to any laptop you want to listen to it from (sounds like an Apple application… hehehe)

So, here you have the first release of audiocli and also a short and small tutorial on how to use it. We will improve it for sure!

And this is only audio… More to come!

Download audiocli here: audiocli_0.1_fonera2_unsigned.tgz md5sum 0bb40eaff47e125706c3f8b22d7f5738

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12 Responses to “Where’s that sound coming from? Geez! it’s a Fonera 2.0!”

  1. bmpeter Says:
    February 3rd, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    Thanks guys.
    Works good and sounds good :)

  2. Boris Says:
    February 4th, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    who needs sound? I would say there are more important and more requested features on F2 to be implemented than fancy stuff

  3. iurgi Says:
    February 4th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Hi Boris,

    Certainly, but we can’t just make magic and get all the plugins people want out of a box. What plugins are more or less important is a matter of an opinion. I like yours but it’s not the only one ;)

    I guess you refer to the bit torrent plugin: well, it’s in progress. Believe me it’s not the easiest plugin to do and plus, we have some internal decisions to make before pushing it.

    I just ask for some patience :) And give the sound plugin a try, even if you don’t think so, it can become handy for lots of people, you will see.

    Hope to have you happy soon!

    iurgi

  4. Eddie Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    Come up with a usable torrent client and leave the bullshit for the times after the priorities!

  5. Damym Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    Hi,
    I bought this very cheap audio card only for using with the Fonera2. But.. in the site you’ve linked some users report that the sound quality looks bad. Can you confirm this?
    They also say that decreasing the audio level can make the sound better. Am I right?

    Now, I have to wait a lot of time before I can test it…

    Bye and sorry for my bad english.
    Damym

  6. STRIKE Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 2:50 am

    Great news, we want more!

    I’m currently doing some stuff with plugins for la Fonera 2.0, I’m trying to do a GPS tracking plugin. The idea is have a GPS receiver and send the data to the fonera via bluetooth and save your route, then when you get home,the Fonera on web interface shows you the route on google maps.

    Good for wardriving :P , or track people.

    It’s very early, and work in progress.

    See you soon.

  7. iurgi Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Hi Strike,

    That’s magnificent! why don’t you pop up by the irc channel? I’m sure there’s people that will be able to help you accelerate and improve your development!!

  8. STRIKE Says:
    February 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Sure! , I need some help with lots of things, and need some coments and recomendations.
    I will go to IRC as soon as I can. :)

    See you soon.

  9. elbjoern Says:
    February 8th, 2009 at 10:18 pm

    hi there,
    is it or will it be possible to connect the harddrive plugged in the fonera usb port to connect to a computer like a normal network drive? or connect to a playstation like a mediaserver? does or will the fonera 2.0 support upnp?
    cheers, elbjoern

  10. Chris Chan Says:
    February 12th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Dear Sir,

    I would like to know how to enable the ssh connection , as I can only find the samba and FTP , but not ssh service in the setup manual .

    and when I ssh to the fon 2.0 but it failed

    ssh root@192.168.10.1

  11. nomorefonero Says:
    February 14th, 2009 at 10:15 am

    no more fonera 2.0 in the fon.shop available . this seems to be a little bit ridiculous. no explanation. no info whatsoever. thats really: FON-like. also your CEO blog is down. so i guess you closed fon and martin closed his blog. that would be fine!

  12. Inouk Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 9:09 am

    Chris Chan: just reboot your Fonera so it generate the keys, then you will have ssh access

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