On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Jed wrote: > Al Johnson, did you get my last response? below....
It was waiting for me, along with this one, when I finally got round to checking my mail today. > >>>> Hi All, > >>>> > >>>> I was wondering if there's any good Universal Remote software for CE > >>>> &or HA being developed in this ecosystem? > >>>> > >>>> Does anyone know of anything under way or a related Linux project that > >>>> could be re-adapted to it? > >>>> > >>>> I have something "roughly" like this visualised... (see attached txt > >>>> file) > >>>> > >>>> I have an old Axim X50v which android is being ported to atm... > >>>> But progress is slow so I may have to find a better supported device > >>>> soon. > >>>> > >>>> Any thoughts/ideas/advice greatly appreciated! > > > > Can't control the TV or whatever without the HTPC being powered up. Many > > would see that as core functionality in a universal remote. If you don't > > then the Freerunner may be what you're looking for. > > Sorry if I'd sent my diagram through properly you'd have understood why > it's not that imperative for me. The idea is to have a dedicated CE/HA > controller/bridge. It will ideally be relatively low power/profile. > > [I've attached the diagram again in case you didn't see it when I > re-sent it earlier, tis very basic] Yes - if that had been attached in the first place my responses might have been slightly different! > >> How would BT be better than using Wifi as the medium to the controller > >> PC? Do none of the openmoko hardware devices have wifi integrated? > > > > It was just a suggestion as to how you could get infrared functionality > > with an existing BT remote app. There's no reason not to use WiFi if it > > suits you better - the Freerunner has both. BT uses less power, > > especially if your WiFi access point doesn't support the power saving > > mode. WiFi is faster and has longer range. > > K cool, I just thought you might know something I didn't, thanks! > > >>> [1] http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/ReMoko > >>> [2] http://n2.nabble.com/Auto-home-revision-1-1-td3698124.html > >> > >> I've also come across this and am quite impressed thus far! > >> http://openremote.org/display/orb/Boss+Overview > > > > Last time I looked many of the features turned out to be intended but not > > implemented, but that may have changed by now. You might also like to > > check out LinuxMCE, PlutoHome, MisterHouse and Minerva. > > Isn't LinuxMCE just the non-commercialised version of PlutoHome? As I understand it LinuxMCE is a fork of PlutoHome, but they've been separate long enough for things to have diverged a bit. I've not tried either of them. > Coolness, never heard of those other two, thanks! I've not tried them either, just seen them when looking at what's available. I also found xAP interesting as it has a plugin for SqueezeCenter which I already use. It's more of a building block than a system though. It might be worth checking the source for Logitech's Squeezebox Controller as an open modular remote running in linux on a small Arm device. They use Poky for building the images, so it should be relatively easy to bring into OE. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
