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7 <h1>Overview of plugins shipped with AFB-Daemon</h1>
11 Author: Manuel Bachmann
14 <h2>List of plugins</h2>
16 <p>Here are the plugins shipped in the source tree:
17 * Audio <em>(2 backends: ALSA/PulseAudio)</em>
18 * Radio <em>(1 backend: RTLSDR RTL2832U)</em>
19 * Media <em>(1 backend: Rygel UPnP)</em></p>
21 <p>All plugins may not be built, depending on the development libraries present on the system at build time.</p>
23 <h2>Detail of plugins</h2>
27 <p>A sample Audio plugin with 2 backends:
29 * PulseAudio (optional)</p>
31 <p><em>(if PulseAudio development libraries are not found at build time, only ALSA will be available)</em></p>
33 <p><em>(if a PulseAudio server is not found at runtime, the plugin will dynamically fall back to ALSA)</em></p>
35 <p><em>(a specifc backend can be forced by using this syntax before running afb-daemon : <strong>$ export AFB</em>AUDIO<em>OUTPUT=Alsa</strong>)</em></p>
37 <p>This plugin is able to initialize a specific soundcard, define volume levels, channels (mono/stereo...), mute sound, and play a 22,050 Hz PCM stream.</p>
39 <p>Sample applications: <strong><a href="https://github.com/iotbzh/afb-radio">afb-radio</a></strong></p>
43 <p>A sample AM/FM Radio plugin with 1 backend:
44 * RTLSDR - Realtek RTL2832U dongles (mandatory)</p>
46 <p><em>(if rtlsdr development libraries are not found at build time, this plugin will not be built)</em></p>
48 <p>This plugin is able to initialize specific RTL2832U dongles, switch between AM/FM modes, define frequency, mute sound, and play sound (by using the <strong>audio</strong> plugin).</p>
50 <p>Sample applications: <strong><a href="https://github.com/iotbzh/afb-radio">afb-radio</a></strong></p>
54 <p>A sample Media Server plugin with 1 backend:
57 <p><em>(if GUPnP/GSSDP development libraries are not fund at build time, this plugin will not be built)</em></p>
59 <p>This plugin is able to detect a local Rygel UPnP media server, list audio files, select an audio file for playback, play/pause/seek in this file, upload an audio file to the server.</p>
61 <p>Sample applications: <strong><a href="https://github.com/iotbzh/afb-radio">afb-radio</a></strong></p>