Overview of plugins shipped with AFB-Daemon

Version: 1
Date:    30 May 2016
Author:  Manuel Bachmann

List of plugins

Here are the plugins shipped in the source tree: * Audio (2 backends: ALSA/PulseAudio) * Radio (1 backend: RTLSDR RTL2832U) * Media (1 backend: Rygel UPnP)

All plugins may not be built, depending on the development libraries present on the system at build time.

Detail of plugins

### Audio

A sample Audio plugin with 2 backends: * ALSA (mandatory) * PulseAudio (optional)

(if PulseAudio development libraries are not found at build time, only ALSA will be available)

(if a PulseAudio server is not found at runtime, the plugin will dynamically fall back to ALSA)

(a specifc backend can be forced by using this syntax before running afb-daemon : $ export AFBAUDIOOUTPUT=Alsa)

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.

Sample applications: afb-radio

### Radio

A sample AM/FM Radio plugin with 1 backend: * RTLSDR - Realtek RTL2832U dongles (mandatory)

(if rtlsdr development libraries are not found at build time, this plugin will not be built)

This plugin is able to initialize specific RTL2832U dongles, switch between AM/FM modes, define frequency, mute sound, and play sound (by using the audio plugin).

Sample applications: afb-radio

### Media

A sample Media Server plugin with 1 backend: * Rygel

(if GUPnP/GSSDP development libraries are not fund at build time, this plugin will not be built)

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.

Sample applications: afb-radio