[mythtv-users] Control for Mythmusic through phone

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Wed Jan 26 21:38:01 UTC 2011


On 1/26/2011 16:32, Stephen Otto wrote:
> I have Mythmusic connected to my whole house audio system. While sitting in
> a room or on the patio without a mythtv frontend I would like to be able to
> control the frontend to select a song, playlist, play/pause, change volume,
> etc. The way I am doing this now is by using a VNC viewer to the frontend
> from a laptop but ideally I would be able to do this from my android
> smartphone rather than lugging the laptop around and leaving it running. I
> tried using Android-VNC which connects and shows the screens but it has no
> arrow keys which makes it useless in moving through the menus and lists.

MythMusic in the development version (0.25) supports remote control 
through the socket interface.  See the 'play music' commands.

http://mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket


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