I have a HTC p4300 smart phone running windows mobile 6.
I wanted to be able to play my music on my HTPC without having to turn on the monitor, or my case the projector. So, since the other projects seemed to have fizzled out I took on the challenge (I also created a plugin that dims turns off my lights when I start a movie and turns them on while paused or stopped playing using x10). I used sockets because I wanted two way communication and because it is so flexible. I even wanted to write a silverlight application that can connect using sockets for web based control. I think silverlight would be great for creating an online epg as well.
I would love to be able to create a nice gui (like pointui home), but I don't have much experience in developing for pocket pc's. I have seen others asking for desktop client remotes as well though. WPF would be a good way to go with that, then skins would be very easy to make.
I think it would be more difficult to give good feedback to the user if it were web based, but I see what you are saying as far as skins go. If that would suit your needs better, then I say go for it. Feel free to use/reference my code. It isn't very well commented (if at all) right now though.
I really like Media Portal and love that it is easy to write plugins like this for it. Though an api would be nice. It takes a while to dig around and try to figure out how to do things.
Darick |