2012-04-20, 03:39
The kitchen radio is a standard UPnP device, so it is not _that_ far off from what you were planning.
Such extension of XBMC UPnP functionality might have also other uses, e.g. music following the user (as he moves, the music stops playing in one room and starts playing in another), or starting watching a movie in the living room and "sending" it to finish in the bedroom.
If I might suggest something else, it might be useful not to limit the functionailty to XBMC UPnP server, but to use any server available in the network. The direct benefit would be that transcoding could be coded later - there are already freeware transcoding UPnP servers available, so you might start with that.
Such extension of XBMC UPnP functionality might have also other uses, e.g. music following the user (as he moves, the music stops playing in one room and starts playing in another), or starting watching a movie in the living room and "sending" it to finish in the bedroom.
If I might suggest something else, it might be useful not to limit the functionailty to XBMC UPnP server, but to use any server available in the network. The direct benefit would be that transcoding could be coded later - there are already freeware transcoding UPnP servers available, so you might start with that.
