[mythtv-users] ipaq as a frontend remote control

[Matthew Zimmerman]

Thanks for the input.  I was able to get MythControl [1] working.  As
stated at the bottom of the wiki, the PDA interface is kind of clunky.
 Buttons appear on the screen and being a touch screen, you'd think
you could click on them :)  Since it was written for a smartphone, the
buttons have numbers associated with them.  Pressing those buttons on
the "virtual keyboard" the PDA has makes them function.  The joystick
however does control up/down/left/right so I'm able to navigate
through the shows easily through that.

On the server side (there's a pass-thru server component that parses
commands to the mythfrontend tcp interface) I removed the bluetooth
components since I didn't have the headers installed.  Everything is
working fine by doing so.

On my ipaq I had to change my battery power settings as when the wlan
connection is torn down, you need to stop and restart MythControl on
the ipaq.  This caused a lot more time and clicking when I really just
wanted to fast forward 30 seconds :)  Each time it would turn off, I'd
have to wait for the wlan connection to setup again too.

Thanks Axel for publishing your work!

Matt Z

[1] http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Remote_Control_with_WM_Smartphone

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Ma Begaj <derliebegott at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/14 Matthew Zimmerman <mzimmerman at gmail.com>:
>> I've been using a laptop pointed at mythweb/remote but that's getting
>> kind of old.  I have an 5450 ipaq running pocket pc 2003 and I thought
>> it would make a good remote.
>>
>> It's connected to the wireless network, but the browser in it uses the
>> "mobile" version of mythweb which means the remote functionality
>> doesn't work.
>>
>> I also thought of using it to broadcast IR but none of my recording
>> cards have IR sensors (I do have a pchdtv 5500 which has IR input but
>> it appears to linux as a keyboard with a driver hack ;))
>>
>> Even better than both of those would be a custom mythtv pocket pc
>> application that just has some large buttons on it for controls and
>> sends commands to the telnet port on the frontend.  Anyone know of
>> anything that does this?  Any other suggestions for me?
>>
>> Matt Z
>
> there is one:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Remote_Control_with_WM_Smartphone
>
> Screenshots:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=184543&ssid=49336
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