

Fortunately others had been there before me, so that didn’t take long – and with a little extension to the settings, I also got JiveLite to respond to the touch screen. The next challenge was to get it working with the little 2.8″ LCD. With a little digging and interpretation of the available instructions, I built and ran it on my Pi connected to a conventional LCD monitor via HDMI. This is a very fully featured app, written in a mixture of C and Lua with full source available, that runs on Linux. It was through these resources that I discovered JiveLite, Squeezebox controller software created by members of this community. I think that stems from the company’s very open approach, with a wiki and forums that are still very active today – despite the company’s assimilation into Logitech, and the discontinuation of its devices.

There’s a great community that has grown up around Slim Device’s Squeezebox products.
