Hi
Im triyng to find a way to make an app to use at home (kichen) in an 17" LCD with touch screen and a old pc with software tv tunner (dont need to record tv there, just watch).
The goal is to make just one screen with live TV (small in center of screen) + channel up/down + volume, weather with just the today and tomorrow display, news rss scrolling at the bottom, in near future 4 video inputs (cameras indoor and outdoor) or just one small video window with random view of the cameras... and EIB/x10 acess in the future for ligthing since it can be done with Vbasic very easy etc etc....
Acess to music/movies, and other things may be done with the start page button and then navigate to the desired location.
At first i thougth that maybe i could do a plugin for it to mediaPortal but joining so many diferent things in one page could not be achieved so easely. (dont now about the policy of MP to make such changes in program).
In other hand, maybe if i use visual studio .net i also could make a nice interface to achieve my goals.
Im not a programer, but i think i can learn very fast, since i already had c++ in college and i can learn VB and get some source code.
I ask you for advice, so i can choose for the best way to do this.
I have read the "make a plugin.doc" from MP forum, but i dont now if its gona be hard to get this done.
Of course , if someone want to try to do the "Just one screen" plugin i would love to help him.
MediaPortal for the Living room, and the Plugin "justOneScreen" for the kichen!
Having breakfast with all the info needed displayed at one time
Goahead
Im triyng to find a way to make an app to use at home (kichen) in an 17" LCD with touch screen and a old pc with software tv tunner (dont need to record tv there, just watch).
The goal is to make just one screen with live TV (small in center of screen) + channel up/down + volume, weather with just the today and tomorrow display, news rss scrolling at the bottom, in near future 4 video inputs (cameras indoor and outdoor) or just one small video window with random view of the cameras... and EIB/x10 acess in the future for ligthing since it can be done with Vbasic very easy etc etc....
Acess to music/movies, and other things may be done with the start page button and then navigate to the desired location.
At first i thougth that maybe i could do a plugin for it to mediaPortal but joining so many diferent things in one page could not be achieved so easely. (dont now about the policy of MP to make such changes in program).
In other hand, maybe if i use visual studio .net i also could make a nice interface to achieve my goals.
Im not a programer, but i think i can learn very fast, since i already had c++ in college and i can learn VB and get some source code.
I ask you for advice, so i can choose for the best way to do this.
I have read the "make a plugin.doc" from MP forum, but i dont now if its gona be hard to get this done.
Of course , if someone want to try to do the "Just one screen" plugin i would love to help him.
MediaPortal for the Living room, and the Plugin "justOneScreen" for the kichen!
Having breakfast with all the info needed displayed at one time
Goahead