v2 Public Beta 9-15-2024

[zshall]

Television Simulator '99 Public Beta

2017-2024 Zach Hall

Always up to date list of 3rd party credits / contributors:

https://www.notion.so/greenhillplaza/Television-Simulator-99-c28584f069b94f58a71b5c9fe2484dcb?pvs=4#8c122c36557a4710bdc938172aa883d7

Update Notes - 9-15-2024

• PLS playlist file support added in backgroundAudio engine for tracks accessible via the web. An example playlist is provided in the placeholders directory.
• PLS files will provide info about what's now playing to the audio info engine.
• If you're using IIS on Windows to host the files, a new MIME type was added to the web.config file included for this purpose.

Here's the playlist example:

- number: 53
  name: Playlist Example
  abbr: PLS
  image: placeholders/channel-53.png
  backgroundAudio: placeholders/playlist-example.pls # You can use a playlist file to play audio. This can be a local file or a remote one but the contents need to be accessible via the web. Currently only PLS files are supported.
  backgroundAudioOptions:
    shufflePlaylist: true # Optional. If you want to shuffle the playlist set this to true. Only has an effect if a playlist file is used.

Read this first!

Get started quickly:

• Put the files in the root directory of a web server. For now we require serving out of the root directory.
• Visit index.html and it should load the example configuration.

Basic keyboard controls:

• M toggles mute
• Up / Down control channels
• Left / Right control volume

In the browser you need to un-mute when the page loads because of autoplay restrictions.

Edit the example configuration file (config.tvs.yml) and make it your own.

Read the documentation: https://greenhillplaza.notion.site/Television-Simulator-99-c28584f069b94f58a71b5c9fe2484dcb

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