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[waltercr]

I am looking for some simple way of controlling media center over a network. I have one computer running Homeseer to run all my x10 and yet another running media center.  

With winamp I had a plug in that gave me a web page I could hit to play/pause/next/prev, and therefore I was able to program homeseer to respond to a given house code to talk to my computer running winamp and tell it to stop/pause/etc. I am looking for something similar in Media Center as so far have not been able to find anything.

Anything out there? Anybody interested in writing anything?

[Doof]

You mean like the Remote Server?

Tools->Options->Startup->Run Remote Server on port XXX?

You check the box, set the port and then connect to the IP address of that machine on that port and you have a webpage to control MC like what you describe. Not sure if that's what you mean, though.

[kiwi]

netremote?  I've played around with it a bit.  It wasn't too difficult to get working.

[waltercr]

All I have to say is you rule. The web control was EXACTLY what I was looking for.. Thanks for opening up my eyes!

[f1bred]

I was playing around with using Homeseer to control Media Center on another machine via the Remote Server funciton. When I issue a command (such as play a certain playlist), I basically give Homeseer the link to the function in Remote Server as a file to execute. But when I do this, it launches Internet Explorer in a new window. Does anyone know of a way to execute the command and suppress the new window opening?