[isf-wifidog] Another Wifidog feature request

Gabe Sawhney gabe at pwd.ca
Lun 23 Mai 17:48:32 EDT 2005


This is a high-level thing, but potentially very cool.  Here's the 
Boston Globe article about what they're doing there:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/magazine/articles/2005/04/24/the_year_of_living_wirelessly?pg=5

I emailed Michael Oh about it, and his reply is below:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Rendezvous
Date: 	Mon, 23 May 2005 17:35:55 -0400
From: 	Michael Oh <oh at techsuperpowers.com>
To: 	Gabe Sawhney <gabe at pwd.ca>
References: 	<42922E87.5080007 at pwd.ca>



Gabe,

I'd be happy to tell you about it, but the technical portion of it is  
pretty easy.

Basically, we're tossing old iMacs into each one of the locations in  
the back room connected via wires or wirelessly to the AP.  Using the  
built-in iTunes rendezvous, they are able serve out the streams to up  
to 5 simultaneous users on the network.

I'd also heard of people using MDNS on a Redhat box to do the same,  
although we have enough old Mac hardware lying around that it was  
pretty easy to do using OS X on iMacs with broken screens.

The real cool part is that each iMac connects to a master server and  
downloads new content (just using rsync and ssh keys) every night, so  
a song or CD that's added to one goes to the others.  So if you RIP  
to one, the rest of the network can listen to it the next day.

If you were to add some sort of Bittorrent component, it would get  
even cooler, but we're not quite that far yet.

The next obvious extension would be for you to have the same setup,  
then for us to also trade songs on a weekly basis, so that you could  
get access to the Toronto Music Project from Boston and v-v.

Not sure about integrating it into the captive portal, but in theory  
it's probably doable with the MDNS stuff if you run on Linux.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Apple_ITunes_Server

Email with any questions.

Later,
Mike

On May 23, 2005, at 3:27 PM, Gabe Sawhney wrote:

> Hi Michael --
> I'm working on a community wireless group in Toronto called  
> wirelesstoronto; we're setting up hotspots & community portal pages  
> across the city, inspired by the model/platform created by  
> Montreal's Ile Sans Fil.
>
> I just read the Boston Globe article mentioning the hotspot- 
> specific music streams, and I'm really interested in finding out  
> how it works.  It sounds like Rendezvous iTunes sharing, and it'd  
> be great to find a way to integrate it into the captive portal  
> platform we're using, Wifidog.  Who can I talk to to get some more  
> info on this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gabe
>

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