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williammanda
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I'm looking for some insight on how to resolve this issue. I currently use Mythtv which is linux and am interested in your Windows product PowerHome. I'm trying to figure out how to use both off of one remote. It seems there are some possibilities ie telnet, web browser, etc... The ideal situation is to have the remote to be able to control both software packages off of two different computers. I have read in the posts that the Nokia tablet ie 700 or 800 series is being used here. This is one possibility where I could see this happening depending on how the switch was made between windows and linux. Please give me your insight on possible solutions.
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William,
Ive read your post a couple of times and still not quite
sure what you'd like to achieve.
Im aware of MythTV as a Linux based DVR type software and
PowerHome is obviously Windows based. From what I
gather, you're looking for a method to remotely control
both PowerHome and MythTV from a single "remote" pc or
controller of some sort. Im not sure what control
options are available for MythTV so not sure how this
part would work but PowerHome has a number of methods of
remote control including the webserver (which should work
fine on Windows, Linux, or handheld clients), the Remote
clients (which are Windows based software), the socket
server if someone would like to roll their own and
Windows messaging for control via another program on the
same machine.
In my setup, I use SageTV on a dedicated machine and
remotely control it from PowerHome via the DCC
(Distributed Control Client). The DCC runs on the SageTV
server and sends keystrokes to the SageTV program.
PowerHome communicates with the DCC using the Socket
server. Granted, since MythTV is Linux, you cant run the
DCC as its Windows based but something similar may be
able to be created for Linux.
Not sure if the above was helpful or not but all I can
think of at the moment.
Dave.
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I tried looking up Distributed Control Client or DCC on the internet but got no where. I was looking at this for some kind of bridge to accomplish what I wanted:
http://irreco.garage.maemo.org/documentation.html
Mythtv can be controlled several ways: LIRC, telnet, commandline, etc...
Please let me know your thoughts.
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William,
The DCC is a PowerHome program and can be found on the
PowerHome download page (http://www.power-
home.com/download.aspx).
If MythTV can be controlled via Telnet, this may be one
of your best options. PowerHome has the generic socket
plugin which could easily do Telnet. You also have
available the internal functions ph_sendsocketdata and
ph_sendsocketdata1. This would probably be the first
method I would explore.
Dave.
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Would you explain how "internal functions h_sendsocketdata and ph_sendsocketdata1" work? And how I could use them in my example.
Edited by williammanda - August 26 2011 at 00:25
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