[mythtvnz] http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/remote/index.html

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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> From: "David Brodbeck" <gull at gull.us>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 6:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Cell Phones - Remote Control or Display Device preferred - please vote!
>
>
> Tortise wrote:
>> I've been thinking about a webpage (maybe AJAX) that's linked to the
>> telnet controls, that could be called from any browser on any
>> device....  I've not yet looked into interfacing a webpage into telnet
>> but expect it can somehow be done?  Perhaps someone here can comment?
>
>> http://www.mythtv.co.nz/mythtv/remote/index.html
>
>> Probably not exactly what you have in mind, but it might be a good
> starting point.  It uses PHP CGI scripts along with a bit of JavaScript.
>
> Can anyone comment (Steve?) on the status of this wrt 0.21 or 0.22?
>
> Does anyone use it now?
>
> Perhaps the IE issues are now overcome via IE updates?
>
> I note that the telnet interface is limited to one connection at a time, however it may be that this overcomes that by routing all
> browser commands thru that one telnet interface?

I have seen a simple on screen remote that initiated a telnet session
for each command, like:

echo 'right' |telnet $backend $port