mherger Wrote: > > ditto for me. I'd love a graphical remote so I could browse album art > > when picking music. What might work is a native app for Windows PDAs > so > > that you could talk to SlimServer directly using IR through the SB > > instead of going through the slow web interface. > > There's a CLI for the slimserver which is more appropriate for that use > > than sending IR signals. >
I was only thinking of using IR for the transport layer, much as a phone uses it when being used as a modem by a PC. Yes, you could put a WiFi module on a PDA, but what about wired only systems? My thought was that your app could compose a CLI command and send it to the SB via IR which then passed it to the SS, and returned the results via IR. You'd need to hold the PDA or phone pointed at the SB all this time, which you wouldn't with WiFi I grant you, but could take advantage of a lot of old iPaqs and Symbian phones that have IR, nice displays, keys and some with touch screens, but not WiFi. If I could write a Symbian app for a Nokia Series 60 phone that tunneled via IR through the SB to the server - then that would be cool. Then you could SMS the phone from the car as you pulled up at home and start the playlist running just as you walked in the door. Even better, you could set music playing when you're out to make people think you're at home if you suddenly have to work late. Plus the phone has a camera, so you could add artwork from that by photographing sleeves. OK, getting I'm carried away now, but there a lot of old phone out there that are cheap and would be great as full colour remote controls given the built-in processing power that they have. Paul -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20304 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
