[mythtv-users] New Myth Network Remote Control App for Mac OS X

[Todd Ignasiak]

On 2/1/07, Ross Campbell <ross.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > "Todd Ignasiak" <ignasiak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I recently made a remote control app for Mac OS X, which uses the TCP
> > > socket control capability added in 0.19 (aka "telnet control").    It
> > > can be operated by mouse/gui input, and it passes through any keyboard
> > > commands to the frontend.
> > >
> > >                http://ignasiak.googlepages.com/mythremote
>
> Cool! Passes keyboard commands too? All? How fast? Fast enough to do
> commercial cutting with the remote system keyboard :) ? Almost exactly
> what I've been looking for... just not on OSX ... Is the code/toolkit
> used portable enough to get it running under Windows and Linux with
> some work?

The response is very fast.   Although in my setup, my Linux frontend
responds much quicker than my Mac OS X frontend running on a Core Duo
Mini.  But, I think that's probably an issue with the frontend
software, not the remote control protocol.

The app uses the Mac OS 'Cocoa' toolkit.     It may not be too tough
to port it to Linux using the GNUStep / OpenStep libraries (they both
go back to the same NeXTStep origin, like Mac OS X).  But, I'll have
to do some more research on that to see if it's viable.       Windows
would be more difficult.

> > > Since I made it mainly for my own use,  I haven't spent a lot of time
> > > prettying up the GUI.  If anyone knows of a good source for free icons
> > > for arrow keys and the ff/play/rewind cluster, let me know.
>
> http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery

Thanks, there are some great icons in that gallery, including the full
Play/Pause/FF/REW cluster.


> > > If others
> > > use this, I may clean up the GUI a bit, and maybe take advantage of
> > > some of the other myth control features like a selectable program list
> > > or time sliders.
>
> Looks slick now, but I'd love to see something like this with a couple
> of UI choices as well
> Perhaps an MCE-ish one like:
> http://www.multimediapc.nl/images/MCE%20remote.jpg
> or a tivo-ish one like:
> http://ftp1955.com/tv2125_000note.gif

I'll need to see how difficult it is to implement GUI 'skins' in
Cocoa, so I can give some flexibility, or change the layout depending
on the mode it's in.       In my usage so far, I end up using the
keyboard for the majority of inputs.    I am leaning towards scaling
the UI down a bit,  such as removing the numeric keypad, since there
is a 1:1 mapping to the keyboard for those keys.

>
> -Ross
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