Chumby Property Dictionary

Under development: --Wayn3w 20:45, 31 March 2008 (PDT)

_root

The following are properties of _root explicitly set by the Chumby environment.

_chumby_instance_url

• URL of service which the configuration widget uses to load and/or send widget parameters. The widget uses a different URL if it needs to send new parameter values; see _chumby_widget_instance_href
• See Data Persistence

_chumby_music_source_state

• Only set when music is playing
• XML: Contains the properties of the current music selection.
• the name of the entity changes depending on the music source.

_selector	_name	_state	_label
cbspodcasts	CBS Podcasts	<item> <id>1</id> <name>Eye to Eye</name> <description>Hear newsmakers in their own words as Katie Couric picks the hottest interview of the day.</description> <url>http://www.cbsnews.com/common/includes/podcast/podcast_kceye_1.rss</url> <image_url>http://content.chumby.com/podcast/cbs/image/1</image_url> </item>	Eye to Eye: Sadr City
chumbcast	Radio Free Chumby	<station channels="2" samplerate="44100" lc="1" ct="WERS - Emeerson College" genre="Independent" br="128" id="30" mt="audio/mpeg" name="WERS- Emerson College" />	WERS - Emerson College
directurl	My Streams	<stream url="http://www.wbur.org/listen/feed/shoutcast.pls" id="a234a514-a483-4cd7-1869-46061aa805fc" mimetype="audio/x-scpls" name="WBUR" />	WBUR
mediafly	Mediafly Podcasts	<channel slug="history and culture" name="history and culture" />	US Job Losses; Dr King---s Dream; Primary News
mp3files	My Music Files	<mp3files/>	(an empty string)
nytpodcasts	New York Times Podcasts	<item> <id>25</id> <name>Front Page</name> <description>James Barron summarizes the top headlines every weekday morning.&lt;&gt;Schedule: Mon - Fri</description> <url>http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/podcasts/frontpage.xml</url> <image_url>http://content.chumby.com/podcast/ny_times/image/25</image_url> </item>	NYT Front Page for 04/05/2008
shoutcast	Shoutcast	<station lc="4311" ct="Ulrich Schnauss - Never Be The Same" genre="Ambient Chill" br="128" id="841" mt="audio/mpeg" name="Groove Salad: a plate of ambient beats and grooves. [Soma FM]" />	Groove Salad: a plate of ambient beats and grooves. [Soma FM]

TBD: iPod, SlimServer

_chumby_music_source_label

• Only set when music is playing
• Contains the name of the current playing

_chumby_music_source_name

• Only set when music is playing
• The name of the music source, such as "Radio Free Chumby" or "Mediafly Podcasts."

_chumby_music_source_selector

• Only set when music is playing

_chumby_widget_done

• Cooperative mode; setting it to true signals the widget is done
• See Cooperative Mode

_chumby_widget_instance_href

• URL of service which the widget uses to send widget parameters. The configuration widget uses a different URL if it needs to send new parameter values; see _chumby_instance_url
• See Data Persistence