[mythtv-users] Control for Mythmusic through phone

[Gabe Rubin]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Stephen Otto <sotto at emsco.com> wrote:
> I have what I think should be a common "want" but can't seem to come up with
> any clever ideas.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>

Probably not the solution you are looking for, but it will definitely work.

I installed squeezebox server and a squeezebox player on my combined
BE/FE (if you have multiple frontends, you can install the player on
each).  I use an app for the iPhone to control the squeezeplayer.  I
am sure there are apps for android, and if not, you can always use the
web based frontend.