Does anyone know of an activeX control available as freeware (or cheap) that
will allow me to do something similar under visual basic (my programing
experience doesn't go as far as Linux yet). The only ones I've seen so far
cost $200 US.
Regards
Stuart
P.S. I intend to control the system from a pic to.

Eric Smith wrote:

> Stefan writes:
> > If you build two wireless ethernet cards into the linux box and in your
> > home PC you would be able to download the mp3 file directly to your car.
>
> Yes, that was part of the plan too.  :-)
>
> I intended to keep a copies (on hard drives) of my entire music library in
> my car, at home (possibly in two locations), and at work.
>
> Also, I've built a thing to extract the MPEG audio from the Music Choice
> channels on DSS.  It's not layer 3, though, so it's not as compact.
>
> I'm planning to use the PIC16F877 with a 4x20 character LCD (or possibly
> VFD) as the controller for each system.  For the car, I'm thinking about
> using a pair of RS-422 links, one in each direction, for communication
> between the remote control and the Linux box.
>
> In fact, I might have a remote control for the remote control :-)  For the
> car I'll probably try to mount the display and such in a DIN-sized box in
> the dash, and use another PIC (probably a 16F84) to make an IR remote for
> that.