Design¶

The design of the Reveille music protocol encompasses 3 pieces of functionality:

1. Music file cataloging and serving (flakd)

   • On any device where you have music stored (desktop, NAS, etc)

2. Central catalog and dispatch of music requests (gunnyd)

3. Music search and playback (coxswaind)

   • One on any device you want to play music from (laptop, netbook, etc)

There can be multiple instances of daemons #1 and #3 that are dispatched by a single instance of #2:

┌───────┐             ┌───────────┐
| flakd ├─────────────┤ coxswaind │
└───────┘             └───────────┘
   | ╲              ╱       |
   |   ╲          ╱         |
   |    ┌────────┐      ┌───────┐
   |    | gunnyd ├──────┤ flakd |
   |    └────────┘      └───────┘
   |              ╲         |
   |                ╲       |
   |                  ┌───────────┐
   └──────────────────┤ coxswaind |
                      └───────────┘