Guest Tech Posted August 27, 2005 Report Posted August 27, 2005 (edited) WMP Remote Control is a piece of software I have developed on my own which allows you to control your PC's Windows Media Player from your SPV why? Well, lets say that you are outside in the backyard and the PC is inside with the volume up on the speakers - the track finishes playin and you dont wanna go inside to change the track. Do it from the power of the SPV, and my application ;)! - simply connect, request and play! :) It uses bluetooth/GPRS/USB Cable (mainly designed for bluetooth and GPRS) The other cool thing is that if there is an update for the application (patched or new version) it will download it for you, on request, from my website! how cool and neat is that??! :( Currently, version 2 has just been released http://www.spapps.co.uk Direct topic: http://www.modaco.com/WMP_Control_v20_Released_-t227117.html Edited August 27, 2005 by Tech
Guest MichaelElfial Posted August 28, 2005 Report Posted August 28, 2005 Well, I read this on your site and I can say many people need this, but there are problems. First of all you should do something about the automtically connecting to the internet and keeping the connection till the remote runs or something like that. Second the server has some problems with WMP - errors pop-up and it is unable to do anything useful after that - ok this is not completely avoidable I know that ;). And catch some of the exceptions - for example when the internet connection drops an exception occurs and seems that the client is not able to fully recover from this situation. But my major question is how the hell you managed to run this through Bluetooth from SPV 500 (I Believe it is exactly the same as mine QTek 8010) while it does not support network profile - I saw no indications that the program works through COM ports so I got puzzled reading about the bluetooth based usage on your site. I am really curious! :)
Guest Tech Posted August 28, 2005 Report Posted August 28, 2005 (edited) please explain exactly what you are doing that causes the problems... Myself and few colleagues have been testing and we seem to find no problems, but of course more problems reported and the steps to reproduce it means we can resolve the problems :) how do you mean connect to the internet and keep the connection alive? ;) when you disconnect from server or the server disconnects you it automatically closes the connection to the server for you.... :( Edited August 28, 2005 by Tech
Guest Dumdidum Posted August 28, 2005 Report Posted August 28, 2005 With all the respect to your efforts but this application seems to be in a very early stage... Btw. as it uses sockets you will need to connect your device with activesync and then use the internet throughput to connect... Perhaps you can have a look at my Media Remote 2004 (www.ruttensoft.com/smartphone/mediaremote.htm), it is quite old and is coded in a very similar way but with eVB... I will release soon a Smartphone Universal Remote which uses Bluetooth, but without the need to connect to Activesync, just direct connection and with a auto-connect if you are in the range of the Desktop server... Further it will be fully programmatically, so you can add any application to it and controll every application you want...
Guest Tech Posted August 28, 2005 Report Posted August 28, 2005 (edited) im afraid i have to disagree on the "early" stage comment... as this app is simple, not "advanced" :) doing an auto connect is possible but not in .NET framework 1.1 - in .NET framework 2.0 it is possible but you must have WM5 to take advantage of the bluetooth stack otherwise you have to use the 3rd party .NET (opencfg) which i am not willing to do ;) you would also have to look at if the user of that computer will accept anonymous connections - look at Windows security and ports and so on.. but im sure your aware if this but as stated before - I developed it mainly for myself, as well as for colleagues, for fun :( I was not aware someone else had done something similar.... but I guess its up to people what they want :D Edited August 28, 2005 by Tech
Guest xerxes Posted August 29, 2005 Report Posted August 29, 2005 With all the respect to your efforts but this application seems to be in a very early stage... Btw. as it uses sockets you will need to connect your device with activesync and then use the internet throughput to connect... Perhaps you can have a look at my Media Remote 2004 (www.ruttensoft.com/smartphone/mediaremote.htm), it is quite old and is coded in a very similar way but with eVB... I will release soon a Smartphone Universal Remote which uses Bluetooth, but without the need to connect to Activesync, just direct connection and with a auto-connect if you are in the range of the Desktop server... Further it will be fully programmatically, so you can add any application to it and controll every application you want... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you can get this written so that it can deal with the Widcomm BT stack as well as Microsoft's stack I'll be the first to buy this. I've been looking for a simple to use bluetooth remote since I started using the C500 a year ago.
Guest dearsina Posted August 30, 2005 Report Posted August 30, 2005 How about not making the app for the crappy windows media player and rather go for something far more robust, and I imagine, more popular, like for instance winAMP? I'm amazed people still use media player when there are alternatives that are 100x better. sina london
Guest Dumdidum Posted August 30, 2005 Report Posted August 30, 2005 How about not making the app for the crappy windows media player and rather go for something far more robust, and I imagine, more popular, like for instance winAMP? I'm amazed people still use media player when there are alternatives that are 100x better. sina london <{POST_SNAPBACK}> As I wrote: My app will be a universal application where you can enter the keycommands manually and so you can control any application you want!
Guest xerxes Posted August 30, 2005 Report Posted August 30, 2005 Hi It is not possible to code an application that is supporting Widcomm and MS at the same time... Coding for Widcomm is very difficult as you have to buy a component from Widcomm... Coding for MS Bluetooth Stack is very easy... thanks to .NET! Btw. I do not plan to sell this application - it will be free! If you want you can be a beta-tester Sven <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'd be very glad to be a beta-tester if you can tell me how to install the MS BT stack and use it with my TDK bluetooth pcmcia card.
Guest Tech Posted August 30, 2005 Report Posted August 30, 2005 (edited) my app has also always been free :) I just personally prefer WMP. as the app name suggests, its a Windows Media Player remote - not a universal remote but soon when i have time i may create one ;) It would be interesting to see how you can control any possible app using keycommands... as the "server" has to understand them and make sure they are supported by the application... but anyway thats just my unresearched theory Anyway it seems that you are over taking my thread.... not nice my friend :( Well its up to people what they want, i just designed it really for myself and colleagues and since im pro MS i prefer to use MS stuff rather than 3rd party (winAMP etc...) Edited August 30, 2005 by Tech
Guest awarner [MVP] Posted August 30, 2005 Report Posted August 30, 2005 Dumdidum rather than hijack this topic advertising your own application it would be more sutable and polite to have your own thread at a time when your application is ready for release. Now lets keep on topic and discuss WMP Remote control!
Guest GameAngel Posted August 31, 2005 Report Posted August 31, 2005 I really like the idea of this app as i use my cordless headphone alot at home to listen to music but i cant get it to work at the mo, im not sure where to get the infomation regarding "Server Name" and "Port Number" from for the phone setup. Can you please advise, thanks in advance
Guest Tech Posted September 1, 2005 Report Posted September 1, 2005 I really like the idea of this app as i use my cordless headphone alot at home to listen to music but i cant get it to work at the mo, im not sure where to get the infomation regarding "Server Name" and "Port Number" from for the phone setup. Can you please advise, thanks in advance <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This information is located on the Server application! :) It will have "Computer/Machine Name" and "Port Number" when you click the Start Service button (on the server) the computer name is the name of the computer set in Windows to connect to and the port number is the listening port to listen for the incoming connection from the mobile device ;)
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