Remote Control Over The Network

[hasso]

How difficult would it be to remote control NPVR over the network... similar to something like Winamp which has a plugin which accepts all the normal play, stop, pause, etc. functions (beyond the present scheduling/settings web capabilities that NPVR has). Is this something on 'the list'? Love to be able to control NPVR over the network with my wireless mobile device.

[sub]

Is this something on 'the list'

It wasnt something I was intending to do in the near future, particulaly because it wouldnt be much use unless I also wrote some sort of client for it too. Maybe in future release though, when I've got more time available.

The APIs are certainly there for any developers wanting to write their own though. ie, they'd need to write a plugin with some sort of interface to listen for network connections, then use the PluginHelper API for controlling playback.

[mvallevand]

I tried to get some developer interest in standard remote interface but it never went anywhere http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...-framework so I did something on my own.

Instead of PluginHelper API functions I felt I would need all keys to make a remote, but I couldn't use either of these to issue a play

base.HandleCommand("Play"); and
base.OnKeyDown(new KeyEventArgs(Keys.Control | Keys.P));

Martin

[stustunz]

Hippo remote for iphone uses vnc works pretty good

[hasso]

... unless I also wrote some sort of client for it.

Just the hooks into NPVR would be great ;-). For me running a small PHP web server allowed me to create my own web client to control Winamp... A PLAY link would go to something like http://winamp.mydomain.com:<port>/?command=play, etc..

Could this be done through a plugin and API? Sorry, for the dumb question... I don't have coding experience aside from HTML and PHP so that's my only way for me to build my own network client into npvr.

[sub]

Could this be done through a plugin and API?

Yes, a plugin could do this - but it'd need to provide it's own external connectivity, because there is nothing in the NextPVR.exe client application that handles incoming web requests or tcp connections etc.

ie, the existing builtin webserver runs in the recording server so is in a different process (nrecord.exe) and has no visibly or control over what the user is doing, so it'd be of no use for this.

[mvallevand]

ie, the existing builtin webserver runs in the recording server so is in a different process (nrecord.exe) and has no visibly or control over what the user is
doing, so it'd be of no use for this.

I was thinking it would be better to have external communication via the web server on the standard web server port, and a class on the web server then communicates to a plugin via an localhost socket. I think that would be better then trying to synchronize NMT and PC external sockets and especially if access via a phone on the Internet is required.

Martin

[sub]

All I give you is 'maybe in a future release'.

[mvallevand]

All I give you is 'maybe in a future release'.

I am hoping you wouldn't have have to do anything other than than ensuring the control API is complete, there is enough state info. for a state machine and maybe add an HttpListener to a remote "page"

Martin

[hasso]

Totally forgot that EventGhost has a webserver plugin which can be used to send events to NPVR/GBPVR. This will do nicely to remotely control NPVR/GBPVR through any browser-capable device (iPad, iPhone, PC, etc.)