[mythtv-users] ipaq as a frontend remote control
Matthew Zimmerman
mzimmerman at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 14:55:56 UTC 2009
Thanks for the input. I was able to get MythControl [1] working. As
stated at the bottom of the wiki, the PDA interface is kind of clunky.
Buttons appear on the screen and being a touch screen, you'd think
you could click on them :) Since it was written for a smartphone, the
buttons have numbers associated with them. Pressing those buttons on
the "virtual keyboard" the PDA has makes them function. The joystick
however does control up/down/left/right so I'm able to navigate
through the shows easily through that.
On the server side (there's a pass-thru server component that parses
commands to the mythfrontend tcp interface) I removed the bluetooth
components since I didn't have the headers installed. Everything is
working fine by doing so.
On my ipaq I had to change my battery power settings as when the wlan
connection is torn down, you need to stop and restart MythControl on
the ipaq. This caused a lot more time and clicking when I really just
wanted to fast forward 30 seconds :) Each time it would turn off, I'd
have to wait for the wlan connection to setup again too.
Thanks Axel for publishing your work!
Matt Z
[1] http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Remote_Control_with_WM_Smartphone
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Ma Begaj <derliebegott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/14 Matthew Zimmerman <mzimmerman at gmail.com>:
>> I've been using a laptop pointed at mythweb/remote but that's getting
>> kind of old. I have an 5450 ipaq running pocket pc 2003 and I thought
>> it would make a good remote.
>>
>> It's connected to the wireless network, but the browser in it uses the
>> "mobile" version of mythweb which means the remote functionality
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> I also thought of using it to broadcast IR but none of my recording
>> cards have IR sensors (I do have a pchdtv 5500 which has IR input but
>> it appears to linux as a keyboard with a driver hack ;))
>>
>> Even better than both of those would be a custom mythtv pocket pc
>> application that just has some large buttons on it for controls and
>> sends commands to the telnet port on the frontend. Anyone know of
>> anything that does this? Any other suggestions for me?
>>
>> Matt Z
>
> there is one:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Remote_Control_with_WM_Smartphone
>
> Screenshots:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=184543&ssid=49336
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