PocketPC Remote Control

[burty89]

I've started writing a plugin to allow the control of MediaPortal using a PocketPC device.

I'm aware that there is a plugin named MPBlue but from what I've read it doesn't work too well, and I want to start from the beginning because this is both my first mediaportal plugin and my first compact framework app, so I want to learn 'the hard way'.

Basically, so far the pocket pc connects to a udp server running as a mediaportal process plugin. The pocketpc so far has play/stop/pause buttons, and is sent the currently playing items length and position from the server.

This all works very well on my axim x51v, and I can play/pause/stop music tracks with it. I hope to develop this into a fully featured remote control which can, for example, display the music library and allow the selection of files to play, show a list of tv channels and allow to change the current channel etc.

However I'm here to ask if people are interested in such a plugin. I can upload what I have now if anyone wants it but bear in mind its just the beginnings and only does what I have described above.

Any thoughts are welcome

[Tjodleik]

Yes. This is great.
My PC is in the basement, and my Qtek 9100 is the perfelt remote (Wifi)
I hope that I one day can select movies and all the rest from my phone.

Can you make that come true?

[takingover]

That would be great if you dev something like that. Been looking for something like this for ages.

Good work

[smnnekho]

i would also love to see that. i have to get a bluetooth stick though (; (switched from laptop to full HTPC) or would it only work via wlan??

[pirlone]

should work with bt also...

btw, i'm looking forward to this plugin too.

rgs,
pirlone

[ASiDiE]

I would love to see it/test it. I have a HP 4150 that has WI-FI and Bluetooth. It's a very nice PDA.... small and pretty fast (I can even overclock it to like 570MHZ! Let us know what you got and the guys here will test it out!

P.S. Post some screen shots... that always makes people feel a warm and fuzzy feeling in the pants.

[smnnekho]

i have an HTC ....whatever... (; it's sold as O2 XDA2i here in germany.

it has also Wlan - but i don't have Wlan here in my HTPC room (;
by the way, i also overclocked it, at maximum CPU usage it even runs @ 668 mhz

[mzemina]

burty89 - I hope you will release the source code! It would be helpful to further its development. After all this is an open source project!

[burty89]

OK heres a small test, mainly just to make sure it connects correctly using other pcs and pocket pcs.

Installation:

Copy the dll in the Server directory to the \plugins\process directory

Copy the two files in the Client directory to the pocket pc (requires .net CF 2.0)

Open MediaPortals configuration.exe and ensure the plugin is enabled, then go to its config page and select the ip address of the network adapter you will connect through, you can also change the port if you like.

How to use:

Once you've enabled the plugin using configuration.exe, run MediaPortal. The server will start in the background.

Run PMPClient.exe on the PocketPC. Go to the settings page and enter the IP address & port you selected in the plugins configuration page. You can then press Reconnect to attempt to connect to the server. The status of this will show below the reconnect button. If all goes well, you will see "Authorized", and then if you play something in mediaportal the information at the bottom of the screen should update. The Play/Stop/Pause buttons should also work.

You can download it here.

[burty89]

Oh, about screenshots I didn't post any because theres really not much to see in the interface yet.

The graphics are taken (badly) from the 3dmp skin, if this is a problem then let me know and I'll change them.