Pocket PC Remote Plugin

[Tommi]

Hi,

I'm currently in to develop a remote control "plugin" for GB-PVR so you can control it with an iPaq over WLAN.
The idea is that you have a simpy interface on the iPaq too, not only remote control buttons.
The whole thing would constist of three parts:

1. GBPVR Plugin with a simple TCP-Server
   
2. Windows Service with a simple TCP Server too
   
3. Pocket PC Application
   

The Windows Service will simply dispatch the Pocket PCs requests to the Server in the GB-PVR Plugin.
I have already skeletons for all of these three Parts.

But I have some trouble with the GB-PVR Plugin API.
Is there any documention besides the one in Wiki?
I would need to get Channel List with currently active Program, whole Program for diplaying TV-Guide on PPC, and need to know how to start playing a Channel from out of my plugin (even if its not currently active in the menu, since there will be only shown if connected or not )

Could anyone help me with some of those questions?
Any hint would be a help.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Tommi

P.S. I'm a strong skilled .Net coder, so u don't have to explain everything in detail.

[psycik]

Not answering your question, but a thought, why not try acting as an MVP.

the MVP service uses a modified VNC protocol....perhaps you could look at that.

[Tommi]

Hi psycik,

that's not really what I want, since i don't want to control gb-pvr by sending key-events to the window. The plugin should act more as an extended user interface (remote user interface).
Btw, pocket displays have a small resolution, so I would have a bad quality when resizing the image...

But anyway, thanks for answering me

...Tommi...

[psycik]

Cool, and so in answer to your questions, if you want to look at some examples, I'd guess the X series to be the best since they have a guide, etc and source available. They're on the wiki.

[Tommi]

Hey psycik,

thanx for the hint. I was going through the in parallel to post a thread here.

I think I'm over with the problem of starting LiveTV...

Let's hope the other one's will be solved soon too..

..-Tommi-..

[Tommi]

Hey,

I figured out the problems on myself, but there is one left:

When I start LiveTV with the Pluginhelper, how do I pause, or stop it?
I tried the getActiveVideoplayer().pause(); but it doesn't seem to work. Although it sais, that its active.

Someones got a little hint?

Thanks in advance,
Tommi

[Tommi]

Is really no one interested in such a plugin?

Think i solved all problems now...

But if noone else is interested in, coding would be more easy...
So please let me know.
Sub, whats your opinion?

Greetz
Tommi

[bluesxman]

I'm certainly interested in what you come up with, but I'm afraid can't offer any help with your coding queries.

One thing I'm wondering about, why have two servers on the PC (the service & plugin). Couldn't the plugin pickup the requests coming in from the PPC?

[sub]

When I start LiveTV with the Pluginhelper, how do I pause, or stop it?
I tried the getActiveVideoplayer().pause(); but it doesn't seem to work. Although it sais, that its active.

Someones got a little hint?

This might work for you, but it wasnt my intention that this be called from a plugin, so I cant be sure.

I will provide a proper API for controlling playback from plugins later.

[Tommi]

Thank's for the response. Work makes just more fun if there will be someone who could use it

One thing I'm wondering about, why have two servers on the PC (the service & plugin). Couldn't the plugin pickup the requests coming in from the PPC?

I thought up that a lot of times too, but there is still one thing the plugin could never provide: startup the GB-PVR Application.
But you're right, all other tasks could be sent to plugin directly. Perhaps I will adapt that, it just seems a little strange to me to run a service which is just for starting up an application, so I let the other things in it too..