Premise MiniBrowser Remote

[chucklyons]

Not sure if anybody is on the forums anymore...been lonely.

I have been working on and off, as the mood strikes, working on using the minibrowser for controlling AV Devices.

I have the first one nearly completed- the mbTelevisionEx class. Power ON/OFF, Mute, Channel Next and Previous, Volume (thanks 123!). Adding channels over the next few days, and some of the other usual offerings. The challenge for me is finding a different TV to test with, to make sure it is 'universal;. Of course it has the same issue that all IR remotes do...

I'll put it up next week or so after some more development and testing...

 

[etc6849]

I'm still here! I would look at adding keypad support for tuners...

The minibrowser driver I posted a while back gives a good example of how to do this.

However, my guess is most people use icons that point to whatever channel.

 

[chucklyons]

Well, I'm making great progress on the minibrowser remote. Works the TV, the cable, and the Integra Receiver (using Damon's Integra driver)

All devices show up under a MediaZone. All media shows up. Selecting a device gives you the controls for that device. Next, Previous, Inputs, etc all work.

The biggest challenge so far is how to make the keypad work for more than single digits. I'd prefer not to require the 'channel' and 'enter' to change channels. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

I have some code cleanup to do. Images for devices. Media selection for the type of device.

It works from the browser(s) - Chrome, FF, and IE.

I'll put it up shortly, once I get the keypad channel changing to work...

 

[chucklyons]

Lots of progress! Cable is working freat!

Cable is called from the cable box under the mediazone. It loads the controls, the channels, etc.

Problem with the numbers turned out to be the amount of delay needed for each command. I had to adjust to 300msecs to get more than one number to show. Oddly, it was only for some channels; not all. In any event, works great from browser(s); Windows 7 Smartphone; and I suspect other browser equipped phones.

I need to format a bit, but its almost ready for prime time....

next? AJAX!

 

[etc6849]

Chuck,

How's it coming? I'm interested in helping with AJAX and integrating it into a few of the modules. Unfortunately, I'm an engineer and not a programmer so I'd need someone to do a few device classes and build the infrastructure (maybe one simple one like lighting and a harder one like security) so that I can study everything and complete the other device classes.

I do think AJAX (or something similar) is a must have as any interface must have two way feedback to get me interested. I wonder what became of jimspr's silver light interface he posted a few years ago? Silverlight will likely run on android and the ipad in the near future would could support instant two way status.

On a side note have you seen the latest Chinese Win7 tablet:
http://www.buyandroidtabletpc.com/g-five-the-first-9-7-inch-dual-os-x86-tablet-pc.html

It appears the Chinese tablets are catching up to Premise

 

[chucklyons]

I'm just creating modules for each of the components..TV, Receiver, PVR, Cablebox...done.

Took out hard-coding. Testing them. Will be ready to put them out for some brave souls maybe next week.

Cablebox works with either media icons (yea!) or digits...

 

[chucklyons]

So I think I'm ready to upload the TV and MediaZone changes. The Cablebox is ready as well. On both I have run into a problem with direct channel entering...


If anybody is reading these forums, is anyone interested in giving these a shot? Loving comments accepted. Shots about my programming style, prowess, etc , PM me....

None of this would have been possible without 123's virtual assistance, provided via his minibrowser rewrite...