Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

Dear folks,

I wouldn´t hesitate to donate if someone was able to help me with this...
I´ve never really missed anything on my N9, a WiFi remote for Home Theater (TVs, AVRs, Bluray players connected to home network), however, is something I´d be really amazed to have...
There is a lot of similar apps for both iOS and Droid, mainly coming from AV brands themselves (Pioneer, LG, Samsung, Panasonic, Onkyo, Denon, NAD, Marantz and counting) but I´ve recently seen one guy who made it on his own for Droid...
as I´m using Pioneer AVR + Bluray player, similar app for N9 would totally make my dreams come true...
I tried to contact the guy, unfortunately I was unable to get to his email or anything..

https://market.android.com/details?i...ff.iControlAVA

Any help is much appreciated

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

I guess this will be a tricky one...

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

I'm also looking for wifi remoter for my LG smart Tv, there is one called Gemote for maemo5/6 but it's used for controling Samsung smart tvs only. I have asked for LG TVs support but got no response, maybe you could try asking them ?

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

Well, I don´t think you can ever get a response from such manufacturer...I did contact Pioneer right after I decided to buy N9 as I knew this app and saw it in action on iPhone 4, I was unfortunately told that there are no plans to release such app for any Linux-based devices...iOS + Droid got it all lined up...sadly, no space for another platforms with such apps...
But if there´s a guy who was able to make a similar app, which actually works on Droid, on his own, I hoped there could be someone capable enough to make it work on N9, too...

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

If you know the protocol (how to give the tv device a command) it will be very simple.
But if you have to reverse engineer, its very time consuming and might not even be legal.

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

@caco3
You can have a look at this: http://jointspace.sourceforge.net/
Somebody with skills can work something useful. I even started a similar thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=82236 , but nobody responded. For sure it works with Philips TVs, but may be other vendors have joined.

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

That would be an interesting project and might not even be too difficult.
How ever since I don't have a tv or other wifi controllable device I am not able to develop it.
(Have a NAS with uPnP, but I guess that's something else)

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

interesting...
I´ve asked this questíon at Nokia Developer website as well, this is the answer from a Nokia dev:
"If you get (from the manufacturer or otherwise) or manage to reverse engineer the interfaces/protocols that such equipment use, then there's no reason why you couldn't write an app that can control them from your N9.

A good way to start with such reverse-engineering is to configure a phone for which such an app exists to use only WLAN, and then to force the WLAN traffic to go through a proxy server that you control (i.e. runs on your PC). Then at the proxy you can monitor the traffic between the phone/app and whatever box is is talking to and being to figure out the protocol."

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

I just came across these source codes for 2011 Pioneer BD players
http://www.oss-pioneer.com/homeav/bl...140/index.html

I´m still looking for wifi-based remote control app for my BDP-440/52FD...

I also got hold of the IP commands table for the BDP-52FD, can´t upload here due to file size...


Could this help anyhow to make this happen?
THX

Re: Is there any possibilty to make a WiFi remote for Home Theater devices app?
 

Would like to know if it is possible to get a remote for apple tv?
Thought I saw one developed for Android or is aTV completely locked?

(have the xbmc remote for aTV XMBC and that one works great)