-Overview of plugins shipped with AFB-Daemon
+Overview of bindings shipped with AFB-Daemon
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Version: 1
Date: 09 juin 2016
Author: Manuel Bachmann
-List of plugins
+List of bindings
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-Here are the plugins shipped in the source tree:
+Here are the bindings shipped in the source tree:
* Hello World
* Authentication
* 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.
+All bindings may not be built, depending on the development libraries present on the system at build time.
-Detail of plugins
+Detail of bindings
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### Hello World
-A sample Hello World plugin for demonstration and learning purposes.
+A sample Hello World binding for demonstration and learning purposes.
-This plugin provides a few unauthenticated requests, all beginning with "ping", to demonstrate basic binder capabilities.
+This binding provides a few unauthenticated requests, all beginning with "ping", to demonstrate basic binder capabilities.
**Verbs**:
### Authentication
-An sample Authentication plugin for demonstration purposes.
+An sample Authentication binding for demonstration purposes.
-This plugin provides a few requests to demonstrate the binder's token-based security mechanism.
+This binding provides a few requests to demonstrate the binder's token-based security mechanism.
Calling "_connect_" with a security token will initiate a session, calling "_refresh_" will issue a new token and invalidate the previous one, calling "_logout_" will invalidate all tokens and close the session.
### Tic Tac Toe
-A sample Tic Tac Toe game plugin.
+A sample Tic Tac Toe game binding.
-This plugin provides an interactive Tic Tac Toe game where the binder returns the grid as a JSON response.
+This binding provides an interactive Tic Tac Toe game where the binder returns the grid as a JSON response.
**Verbs**:
### Audio
-A sample Audio plugin with 2 backends:
+A sample Audio binding with 2 backends:
* ALSA (mandatory)
* PulseAudio (optional)
-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.
+This binding is able to initialize a specific soundcard, define volume levels, channels (mono/stereo...), mute sound, and play a 22,050 Hz PCM stream.
**Verbs**:
_(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)_
+_(if a PulseAudio server is not found at runtime, the binding will dynamically fall back to ALSA)_
_(a specifc backend can be forced by using this syntax before running afb-daemon : **$ export AFB_AUDIO_OUTPUT=Alsa**)_
### Radio
-A sample AM/FM Radio plugin with 1 backend:
+A sample AM/FM Radio binding with 1 backend:
* RTLSDR - Realtek RTL2832U dongles (mandatory)
-This plugin is able to initialize specific RTL2832U dongles, switch between AM/FM modes, define frequency, mute sound, and play sound (if combining with the **audio** plugin).
+This binding is able to initialize specific RTL2832U dongles, switch between AM/FM modes, define frequency, mute sound, and play sound (if combining with the **audio** binding).
**Verbs**:
* _mute_: sets device mute status (on-off)
* _play_: sets device playing status (on-off)
-_(if rtlsdr development libraries are not found at build time, this plugin will not be built)_
+_(if rtlsdr development libraries are not found at build time, this binding will not be built)_
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### Media
-A sample Media Server plugin with 1 backend:
+A sample Media Server binding with 1 backend:
* Rygel
-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.
+This binding 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.
**Verbs**:
* _seek:_ seeks in the currently selected audio file, in seconds
* _upload:_ uploads an audio file, with a POST request
-_(if GUPnP/GSSDP development libraries are not fund at build time, this plugin will not be built)_
+_(if GUPnP/GSSDP development libraries are not fund at build time, this binding will not be built)_
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