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[Claude Lapalme]

I am trying Roomie Remote at the moment as I heard that it can control MC through MCE. I have a WMC IR remote which I use flawlessly atm moment, but despite setting RR to the right ip address and port 5150, I get no response. Am I missing something?  I am sending this to the RR people as well, but thought I might have better luck here.

[horse]

Claude, what control functions do you want?
I use RR or Simple Control as it has become to control basic functions. It's done through the MCWS interface.
Pause/play
Prev/next
stop
Play preset playlists.
Etc.

I do this across multiple zones.
I embed JRemote for more complex or selecting what to play. A bit like a pop up guide.

More than happy to share how. Basically you need to configure URL's to different buttons.

The following toggles play/pause on my living room zone

http://192.168.1.20:1082/MCWS/v1/Playback/PlayPause?Zone=Living%20Room&ZoneType=Name

This plays a playlist in the living room.

http://192.168.1.20:1082/MCWS/V1/Playlist/Files?Action=Play&Playlist=Kailin%5CKailin1&PlaylistType=Path&Shuffle=1&Zone=Living%20Room&ZoneType=Name

And to open JRemote from a button. Select open URL in Safari and enter
jremote://

This launches the app

[Claude Lapalme]

Thank you!

I may have been naïve of me, but I was simply wondering if I could use it to navigate in Theater View. To do the initial setup for this eludes me, as nothing seems to work. But then perhaps it is not supposed to. All I really need is up, down, left, right and enter.

[horse]

Ah, now I understand the references to MCE and port 5150.

You are not alone with what I believe you are hoping for. Which is a RR Remote Control Interface with ideally a Media Guide for MC's Theatre View. This has been requested of the RR / Simple Control developer by a few of us.

However you can still do what you want if you build a custom remote and then assign the following urls to the buttons. (open silently)
Or test it in a browser and if that works, it will work on RR.

UP        http://<your MC PC IP>:<your MC port>/MCWS/v1/Control/Key?Key=Up&Focus=1
Down   http://<your MC PC IP>:<your MC port>/MCWS/v1/Control/Key?Key=Down&Focus=1
Left       http://<your MC PC IP>:<your MC port>/MCWS/v1/Control/Key?Key=Left&Focus=1
Right    http://<your MC PC IP>:<your MC port>/MCWS/v1/Control/Key?Key=Right&Focus=1
Enter    http://<your MC PC IP>:<your MC port>/MCWS/v1/Control/Key?Key=Enter&Focus=1

More info can be found if you point a browser to http://<your MC PC IP>:<your MC port>/MCWS/v1/ and scroll down to the Control section.
I think you can send pretty much any keyboard command, including some extended ones as well using this method.

Have not actually tried the commands above yet, not at my home at the moment.

I think the default MC port number is 52199, but don't quote me on this.

[EDIT] tried this using Safari to control my MC running in theater view and could navigate using the browser, so this would work just fine with a custom remote design with Silent URL's assigned to the Navigation Keypad layout.
You can then add Play/Pause, skip, rewind etc.

[Claude Lapalme]

Now I get it!

Will give that a try. Thank you!

[Claude Lapalme]

OK. Almost there!

There is one perhaps intractable problem left. Since the computer in question is a library client, I must use authentication to keep in sync with the Library server. I did a test button on Simple Control, but it only works if I disable authentication. Is there anyway around this?

[Claude Lapalme]

Actually, never mind. It does accept the old url syntax user:pass@server, which I thought was no longer accepted. That computer still runs windows 7, maybe that's why

[horse]

Someone asked about authentication on another thread. Mine is disabled currently. Have enough security enabled to break thinks on a regular basis without adding more :-)

However, I believe you can also use the MCWS Authenticate function in a browser and obtain a token. This is then appended to your url as

&Token=<token value> just not sure how often that token changes.