[mythtv-users] mythfrontend "follow me" feature

[Rob R]

If you want a follow me feature, instead of "poaching" PlutoHome's code and
reinventing the wheel, why not just *use* Pluto, since Pluto supports Myth
for DVR services?   The benefit is that Pluto can turn a Bluetooth cell
phone into a full featured remote control which makes following it a lot
more logical.   Follow me is activated in a menu on the phone.   It won't
just spuriously follow you into the bathroom if you don't want it to. :)

That's one of the big reasons we hired Chris Pinkham to do the telnet socket
interface that was added to Myth 0.19, so we'd have control enough to see
what media streams people are playing, and know where to cue them up on the
next frontend.

For Follow Me to be really useful, you need full control over the AV gear to
turn it on and set it to the right inputs.   That's exactly what Pluto
specializes in: centralized, intelligent management of gear in the whole
home.

-- Rob
PlutoHome



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Steve Daniels
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 11:10 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend "follow me" feature

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Allan Wilson
Sent: 06 March 2006 22:32
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] mythfrontend "follow me" feature

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

Hello Allan,

If you have a look at the Pluto Home system this is what it is currently
capable of. I most likely will be having a look at how they implement this,
and poaching some code, though I can see me having to scan a lot to find the
right bits!

It would annoy me however, if the tv went off every time my girlfriend went
to the toilet and it tried to follow her through the dining room :-P it
would also make having a Bluetooth transceiver at the location of each and
ever Frontend. So for me, who pipes at least some of his outputs round the
house that would be a problem. So Bluetooth following, would definitely,
have to be a secondary feature.

Thanks for your input,

Steve

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