Media Portal Commander (1 Viewer)

[dhanjel]

In order to start / stop / restart media portal remotely instead of using vnc I developed a small client / server application which supports those commands. It's very basic in its current stage. (Not even sure if it works on computers other than mine).

Please try the application if you want, but most importantly is there any need for an application like this? Should I continue to develop it?

Client configuration file:

SERVER_PORT={PORT_NUMBER}
SERVER_IP={PORT_IP}

Server configuration file:

SERVER_PORT={PORT_NUMBER}
MAX_CONNECTIONS={MAX_CONNECTIONS}
MEDIAPORTAL_PATH={MEDIAPORTAL_DIRECTORY_PATH}
MEDIAPORTAL_EPG_PATH={TVGuideScheduler.exe PATH AND NAME}

The client is started in a console (at this moment), like this:

MPCommandClient.exe <command>

It supports the following commands:

start - Starts mediaportal
stop - Stops mediaportal
restart - Restarts mediaportal
updateepg - Updates the epg
quit - Stops the server

This is an early early beta, use it on your own risk.
Download: http://www.badongo.com/file/652115

Planned improvements:
- Server is started as a window process
- Client GUI.

I will upload the source code upon request. Written in C++.

 

[wortelsoft]

I see posibilties for this application. Maybe in the future it can be combined with the MP web interface.
A really cool feature to ad would be to be able to send a wake on lan packet to the HTPC to start it up from stanby.

 

[dhanjel]

I see posibilties for this application. Maybe in the future it can be combined with the MP web interface.
A really cool feature to ad would be to be able to send a wake on lan packet to the HTPC to start it up from stanby.

An integration with MP web interface should be simple since the server listens on standard TCP.

I will look into the wake on lan possibility

 

[wortelsoft]

Java code for wake on lan:

http://www.jibble.org/wake-on-lan/

Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN