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Netbook as a Remote aka Tremote
zxsix:
Jim,
I have two primary uses in mind for this.
1) on a touchscreen of some sort in the theater to control what's playing movie-wise.
Currently will be using a laptop until I decide on a touch panel I can live with in my price range.
2) more often though, I'd use it for audio. I currently have 6 zones in MC. I'd want to be able to launch the remote piece and be able to select any one of the available zones to send the audio to. Zone selection is easily done from the main server now, or via rivermote on the itouch. I can't use the new feature until zone selection is added. It currently plays on the main desktop speaker output on the main server pc. If I was listening on those speakers, I'd just fire up MC on the main machine and wouldn't be using the remote copy. I need to be able to select the garage or swimming pool zones, which is where I use the rivermote product currently to switch to the zone and kick off a playlist. Rivermote works well for this, but I could envision using a laptop on the pool patio instead, simply to be able to show a larger playing now screen that we could read from the pool to see what's playing. I'd probably roll this out in two more bedrooms after zone selection becomes a reality.
3) I'd also use it from work to listen in the "here" scenario like we can do in v13. In this case, the desired enhancement would be some tag editing capabilities. Rating at a minimum.
Basically the must haves are zone selection and having the now playing info showing the same correct info on both the client and the server copy of MC for the respective zones.
As mentioned before, being able to assign a custom toolbar button for each individual zone would be nice for toggling between them instead of the drop-down list or the toggle keyboard combination.
Just click each button to show the playing now for that zone in the current pane.
GrantDG:
--- Quote from: Listener on June 09, 2009, 02:03:52 pm ---- change from one view scheme to another to select music.
- Look at at the Playing Now list.
- Look at the Recently Ripped and Recently Imported lists...
- See what's playing and how far along I am in the current selection...
- Use the Play/Pause and Stop buttons...
- Change the current zone from...
- Customize the Tremote menus...
...UI actions to be smoother and less clunky ...
--- my advanced wish list
... each one controlling playback on a different zone.
... fix any tag error...
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I'm not sure if people have missed my eariler post - but this functionality is all already available in the add-in I have written - even the 'advanced' bits.... (Well - all except for the "commands on the bottom menu")
Check out the following posts for a little history.
It's even got a version which is setup for Small devices (iPhone, WinMobile)
Matt:
--- Quote from: GrantDG on June 09, 2009, 05:55:32 pm ---I'm not sure if people have missed my eariler post - but this functionality is all already available in the add-in I have written - even the 'advanced' bits.... (Well - all except for the "commands on the bottom menu")
Check out the following posts for a little history.
It's even got a version which is setup for Small devices (iPhone, WinMobile)
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Our hope is that building a web service server into Media Center will make work like this easier since you can build on top of a documented, supported system. Once the SDK is a little further along, it'd be great if you took a look and let us know what we could do to help.
Keep up the great work.
Osho:
Can I currently use the Tremote capability to control MC13 running on a remote machine? Or, do the both client (netbook) and the server (MediaPC) both have to be running MC14?
Thanks,
Osho
newsposter:
If you are going to use WebKit be careful with patch levels. GTK+ is harder to program for but it doesn't have the security baggage of WebKit.
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