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<blockquote data-quote="ManOnMoon" data-source="post: 68573" data-attributes="member: 23182">Hi Bram,thanks for the good work. I played around with many remote tools and mediacenters for the last few weeks. So maybe I can share some ideas which I had on this topic.- Did you have a look at Xlobby and the HTML interface for this - they did a great job maybe your tool can profit from that with a bit reverse engineering&nbsp; :wink: - what about showing the coverarts - also it is not an absolutley necessary feature but in my opinion it adds some value to the GUI- in my opinion all the html based remotes and most of the others also have a big problem: The unexperienced user (like my girlfriend) is left alone for setting up the connection. For WLAN this is somehow easy preconfigureable but the real killerfunction would be remote control via your mobile. Ideally we should have a tool/plugin that automatically connects to the Mobile phone via BT(PAN-Profile as soon as MediaCenter starts and the device is in range)So all the rest can be done via the mobile phone browser and a link.- maybe for older mobile phones a wap version could also be of value- The website should be always optimized depending on the browser and the platform. In my opinion this should be MSIE 6 platform NT 5.1 (800x600), MSIE 4.01 platform windows CE (320x240), maybe some mozilla, and maybe wapCheers,Florian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ManOnMoon, post: 68573, member: 23182"] Hi Bram, thanks for the good work. I played around with many remote tools and mediacenters for the last few weeks. So maybe I can share some ideas which I had on this topic. - Did you have a look at Xlobby and the HTML interface for this - they did a great job maybe your tool can profit from that with a bit reverse engineering :wink: - what about showing the coverarts - also it is not an absolutley necessary feature but in my opinion it adds some value to the GUI - in my opinion all the html based remotes and most of the others also have a big problem: The unexperienced user (like my girlfriend) is left alone for setting up the connection. For WLAN this is somehow easy preconfigureable but the real killerfunction would be remote control via your mobile. Ideally we should have a tool/plugin that automatically connects to the Mobile phone via BT(PAN-Profile as soon as MediaCenter starts and the device is in range) So all the rest can be done via the mobile phone browser and a link. - maybe for older mobile phones a wap version could also be of value - The website should be always optimized depending on the browser and the platform. In my opinion this should be MSIE 6 platform NT 5.1 (800x600), MSIE 4.01 platform windows CE (320x240), maybe some mozilla, and maybe wap Cheers, Florian [/QUOTE]

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