[mythtv-users] mythfrontend "follow me" feature

[Allan Wilson]

I think it would be a really useful feature but to make it really friendly
make it follow bluetooth devices such as your cell phone so that you don't
have to do anything with the remote unless you didn't have a bluetooth
device. Also it is an option in Myth to save your place when you exit from
watching a show so that when you start it again it starts back in that same
place. I thought it would be cool to have it stop the show when it no longer
saw your bluetooth device and then pick that same show backup up when it
finds the bluetooth device in another location. Good luck I think this would
be an awesome feature if you could make it work.

Allan

On 3/6/06, Steve Daniels <steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm thinking of getting my hands dirty..
>
> I want to implement a "follow me" function into myth. Manual to begin with
> then eventually optionally automatic along the lines of what they do with
> Pluto by the looks of things.
>
> I've done some searching on gossamer and can't see much in there. I was
> wondering what's the best way to get a mythfrontend's status,
> programmatically, or using the new network interface by chris with a bit
> of
> parsing?
>
> The way I want it to work is, I'm watching something in the lounge, but
> I'm
> going through to the kitchen to make a cuppa, I don't want to pause, so I
> go
> to the on screen menu, select "follow me" select a Frontend (perhaps see
> current status here in case another family member is currently watching
> something/doing something else on that Frontend). This could maybe happen
> immediately or perhaps with say a user configurable delay, so I can
> actually
> get to the other room and not really miss a beat.
>
> I think a follow me feature would need to have A LOT of user configurable
> options to make it appeal to everyone.
>
> I.e. when I tell it to follow me, does it pause at the current location,
> or
> stop? And after say 15 seconds are up, does it continue on the new
> Frontend
> and the old Frontend to keep them synced? If I'm keeping them in sync,
> should I do a delay at all at the start? If they are staying sync, when
> one
> Frontend is paused, should the other one as well?
>
> And these are just the scenarios I can be bothered thinking of and typing.
> So I think if I undertake this, it should have a setup page at least
> dedicated to its config. The on screen menu ui would have to be carefully
> thought of too so not to be too over crowded, and not present too many
> options.
>
> But that is all pipe talk until I start to actually write some code..
>
> Has anyone got any ideas hey would like to share, or any thoughts at all
> on
> features or implementation?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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