Chris Isaac – 2011 Lowell Summer Music Series, a photo by streamingmeemee (Tim Carter) on Flickr.
This is turning into one of my favorite shots in recent memory.
Chris Isaak – 2011 Lowell Summer Music Series
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Thanks for the help / Status Update / Demo Feed
Thanks!
Just a quick post to recognize RobF’s help sorting out some issues; with his help FrameAlbum now supports Toshiba frames! Rob, Thanks for your time and your patience.
Status Update:
I’m putting the finishing touches on the channel programming and selection routines today. I will be releasing some of the beta registrations tonight — watch your email.
If you haven’t done so already, you can register now for the FrameAlbum beta at www.framealbum.com.
Demo Feed:
For those of you that have asked, the demo feed is from my Flickr photostream. Yes, I do shoot a fair bit of live music. 😉
Theme broken in Google Chrome?
Is it just me or is this theme (site layout) seriously broken when viewed with Google Chrome browser?
Breakdown of a FrameChannel request…. Well Helloooooo iPad!
So I was reviewing my server logs this morning (Yes, I’m a geek — it’s what I do.) and I noticed an interesting entry…
GET /productId=IP14882/frameId=184820da466bcc29ccc5da3620389a26933950e3/sk1=DB7B067C7B8BC66FE49A67DE8D268183D867DA5CF0376662F62CDD5FCA5A0D1B/channellist HTTP/1.1" 404 356 "-" "TTCatalog-iPad/3.0 CFNetwork/485.13.9 Darwin/11.0.0"
There are several interesting bits here…
productId=IP14882
The product ID field is used to communicate what make/model photo frame is trying to connect with the service; In this case it is ‘IP14882’. I use this information to determine the native screen size of the frame and to track if it supports custom Photo RSS feeds. So far I have 14 unique productIDs in the database.
frameId=184820da466bcc29ccc5da3620389a26933950e3
FrameId is used to unqiuely identify individual photo frames. Some manufactures use the MAC address of the frame, others use a simple numeric serial number. This one is larger than most.
sk1=DB7B067C7B8BC66FE49A67DE8D268183D867DA5CF0376662F62CDD5FCA5A0D1B
Huh… I don’t know where to begin on this bit. First time I’ve seen it in a frame request. Anyone?
Update: I’ve re-read the FrameChannel Integration Guide and discovered that this is the SecurityKey. It is described as:
SECURITYKEY is an encrypted string used to validate that the URL is coming from a genuine partner device. The security key is an HMACSHA256 digest (as defined in RFC 2104) of the combination of PRODUCTID-FRAMEID (exactly in that order separated by a single hyphen character), using a secret 32-character key provided by Thinking Screen Media for each productId supplied. IMPORTANT: the secret key should be considered confidential information, and should not be shared or exposed to the public. A leak of the security key will require an Frame Media, Inc. Page 2 of 4 Company Confidentialimmediate firmware update by the device partner.
channellist
I’m assuming that this bit indicates that the frame is looking for a list of channels available (Thank you Dr. Obvious). However, I have no notion of the format it is expecting in return. Anyone?
And now for the really interesting bit…
"TTCatalog-iPad/3.0 CFNetwork/485.13.9 Darwin/11.0.0"
Well Hellllooooo iPad! I knew that FrameChannel had an iPad application/widget/thingy but this is my first example request. Many thanks to the intrepid soul who fiddled with their DNS and sent in this request.
Now… If I could just figure out how to respond to a channelList request… Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
Anyone from Toshiba engineering? (what the frack is a ‘channelList’)
I’ve hit a bit of a hurdle with the Toshiba frames. When they first contact the FrameChannel service they request a ‘channelList’. Frankly, the Toshiba frames are not the only ones that do this but since there are large number of Toshiba frame owners pre-registered for the service I’m focusing on them first.
If anyone here has in-depth knowledge of, or access to, the technical details of the FrameChannel support within the Toshiba digital frames I would be VERY grateful for a bit of guidance.
Wanna see some pictures? FrameAlbum ready for feed testing!
I’ve decided to focus first on the creation of custom Photo RSS feeds so that folks who are unable/unwilling to manipulate their DNS servers to redirect the old FramChannel URLs will be able to use FrameAlbum.
I’d like some folks to test the demo feed I’ve built using the FrameAlbum service. This is not a hand-coded RSS feed, it was built and served completely by the new service.
To participate in the testing all you need do is enter this URL into your frame’s ‘Custom Photo URL’ feed feature:
http://rss.framealbum.com/feed.php?fid=999999&pin=1234
Please let me know if you have any issues.
Thanks!