[mythtv-users] New Nokia web device -- ultimate Myth controller?
Dewey Smolka
dsmolka at gmail.com
Thu May 26 14:55:23 UTC 2005
What I'm thinking with this is rather than indirectly sending commands
to the frontend (or backend) via lirc, you could directly control the
unit through ssh (since it is an autonomous unit connected by WiFi).
In the case of distributed frontends, you would be able to monitor and
control each frontend from a single hand-held unit, and from anywhere
within range of your wireless network.
The difference is that with lirc, you have a limited set of commands
that can be sent, and those can be sent only to the box hosting the
lirc device. With something like the Nokia on a network, you can send
any linux command to any box on the network.
I'm not yet sure how or why this would be useful, but it strikes me as
a potentially very powerful tool.
I'm also not sure how or if this would be possible, but I'm guessing
that since the Nokia machine is built on a standard kernel that you
can get to a shell and start constructing nifty little scripts and
widgets. I'm also pretty sure that such tinkering would be a great
deal harder on a WinCE machine. I don't know enough about palm to
comment.
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