Your PC as remote control

[Perpetual Beta]

@netdata:
All buttons of the virtual remote seem to be fully functionally.
With Ubuntu 10.10 / Firefox 9.01 keyboard shortcuts are not accepted (yet?).

The TV Channel drop-down list is nearly unusable, if you want to select ań entry outside of the displayed range. You have to be very fast.

The application collides with ABE (Application Boundaries Enforcer) in the popular Firefox Addon "NoScript".
For short tests I have deactivated ABE temporarily in Noscript configuration.
With respect to http://www.noscript.net/abe/ this can be avoided with some configuration work (?) in NoScript or in your web application.


edit / ABE Ruleset for NoScript Users:
Go to ABE-Settings and add the following 2 lines before the "Deny" line in the SYSTEM ruleset:

Site http://<IP-Address TV>
Accept from http://www.netdata.be

[smart]

Hi,

great application, very nice looking! I can not use it, since I own an 2010 TV, but it looks very promising!

[netdata]

Ohh nice, constructive feedback ;-)

With Ubuntu 10.10 / Firefox 9.01 keyboard shortcuts are not accepted (yet?).

I will have to test this, I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 with google chrome and there it seems to function.

The TV Channel drop-down list is nearly unusable, if you want to select ań entry outside of the displayed range. You have to be very fast.

Yea indeed I also have noticed this.
I will be fixing this in the upcomming days, it is because the dropdown is updated every second with the current selected channel.

The application collides with ABE (Application Boundaries Enforcer) in the popular Firefox Addon "NoScript".
For short tests I have deactivated ABE temporarily in Noscript configuration.
With respect to http://www.noscript.net/abe/ this can be avoided with some configuration work (?) in NoScript or in your web application.

edit / ABE Ruleset for NoScript Users:
Go to ABE-Settings and add the following 2 lines before the "Deny" line in the SYSTEM ruleset:

Site http://<IP-Address TV>
Accept from http://www.netdata.be

Thanks for catching that, it seems normal that ABE blocks this since he might think it is a XSS attack (Doing GEt's and POSTS to an other host than itself)

Since I don't have HTTPS available I can't provide this as a default ruleset...

[Perpetual Beta]

Chromium / google chrome does not enable cookies for local files. So on every application start from local harddisk you'll have to enter the TV's IP address. Or enable cookies for local files with command line flag --enable-file-cookies.

With chromium the keyboard shortcuts are accepted here.

[DerShortyy]

@netdata

very nice app. Runs also pretty good on samsung galaxy s2.
Maybe a keyboard function for NET TV could be included.
Best Regards

[netdata]

Maybe a keyboard function for NET TV could be included.
Best Regards

The problem is that the current API does not implement a-z key presses.

I'm thinking to create a work around, but I don't like that.
I could create keyboard mappings which are translated to multiple key presses on the remote
so if you would need a "c" then send 3 times the key "2"

[smart]

I think, that's how Philips did it already for their MyRemote app.
Sure, this is an ugly solution, since you need to make sure, the country setting on the TV is the same as on the Remote app.

In this case you have to accomodate for the special chars in some countries, like the ä, ö, ü, ß in germany or the french â, é, è, ê or those danish o with that slash through it...
The order of the chars is important ..., really ugly ...

[matthias]

In the JointSpace API docs i cannot find this, is this excluded by philips maybe ?

No, unfortunately not. Somewhere on the SF jointspace wiki/doc/forum I found that they do this by multiple 0..9clicks + 1 confirm click. There needs to be a minimum delay between each clicks, but I don't remember the value.

Agreed - really ugly

[matthias]

I'm working on the ambilight stuff, it is very advanced when using this intrface.

Actually, controlling ambilight is not so difficult. I put together a quick hack to test it.
If you want, have look here.

But there still is a bug (at least on my 7606), which only allows control of the left side :-(

[matthias]

And - finally- feedback ;-)
Your Control app looks really neat and works nice! Good work!

Unfortunately, keyboard shortcuts don't work for me either on Windows Vista / Firefox 9.0.1. (NoScript is not installed).

Also, selecting a channel from the list is difficult when going beyond the first few items, because the select-line jumps every half second.

And: I find the "Info" button very helpful, as it displays the cable EPG Proramm info with a single click.

Thanks!

[Nettle]

@Toengel, indeed you are right, since it seems that only the 2011 TV's have the REST API

[jerrypvienna]

Not working for me, I can use the iPhone app and can connect to port 1925, but your app says no connection,....

[netdata]

@jerrypvienna

Can you please tell me which browser you are using?

[jerrypvienna]

IE9 did not work, FF works, so basically OK using the correct browser ;-)

[Chrissie18]

Ow, man! I really need to get some extra free time!
Just looked at the JointSpace SourceForce page and I now see that there also was a native win32 API solution running in VS2010 (express)...
The first glance of the API documentation did get me a bit worrying, but I see a challenge!
So, knowing myself a bit, this will take some months...