[mythtv-users] PDA Remotes using VNC

[Jesper Rasmussen]

I think the escape problem points to a previous debate, about mouse 
support in myth.
Mouse support makes sens for both the pda-vnc-remote scenario, as well 
as using a touchscreen.
By having mouse support and a back widget in myth, both thouse options 
would be usefull.

But afaik the mouse support has been debated, and Michael Magnusson made 
a mouse support patch, but as i understood it at the time, mouse support 
was a bit tricky to add to the custome controls myth is build upon.

cheers
Jesper

James Thompson wrote:
> This is my first post here with many more to come.  I am new to MythTV 
> but I love it and must put my thank you up here for all dev’s.
> 
>  
> 
> My little contributions are going to starting coming in. This one is for 
> users. I have started using my ipaq h2215 as a remote. For the server I 
> got x0rfbserver. It was simple to setup and loads up quickly.  For the 
> pda I started out with vncview from 
> (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~midgley/wince/vnc.html). There are a few 
> noticeable problems with using vnc.
> 
>  
> 
> The problems are:
> 
> Power off PDA vnc closes – yeah this sucks but it’s not life or death 
> here. Give me time to rewrite the login setup/connection routines.
> 
> No escape key  - Key binding didn’t work for me, so I switched it back 
> and added an escape key to the key’s menu of the vnc software.
> 
> Sluggish – These are the screen updates. Useless as the screen is just 
> going to be blue for tv. I added a no remote window option and now it’s 
> very responsive.
> 
>  
> 
> So far these are just workarounds. I like the way it works so far. As I 
> come up with problems I will fix them.
> 
>  
> 
> My setup is using Bluetooth to my main pc then to the network finally 
> reaching the myth box. I would like to add a Bluetooth adaptor the myth 
> box and get that working but we shall see. All the pda needs in this 
> setup is a wireless connection to the network. With this you can do 
> anything on the myth box as if you had a keyboard and mouse, this 
> includes running other programs other than mythtv.
> 
>  
> 
> I don’t know exactly what this post was for but I got the idea before 
> from other posts that are outdated now. I am not sure if those people 
> gave up or what but I have added my limited programming support to 
> making a pda remote control. As such I figured this might come in handy 
> for others. My source code and complied project are available to under 
> gpl and should soon be posted at the main website for the vnc software. 
> If it’s not at the vnc website I will setup my own. Soon this project 
> will be drastically different as I make an interface that has some 
> functionality. My programming skills on any windows interface sucks 
> though so maybe someone else will work on this with me. Let me know if 
> your interested.
> 
>  
> 
> tray at penguinnexus.com
> 
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