If you look at diagram I'm hoping to devise a device that acts a central controller for consumer electronics & home automation. I want a hand-held to interface with it. This hand-held would ideally also have IR integrated, but it's not imperative as Wifi would be used mostly. So far the best solution I've found is this http://openremote.org/display/HOME/OpenRemote You don't have to use their reference hardware but something low power/profile like it I think would be ideal. It's critical you have JRE + Apache Tomcat installed/configured properly. I'd probably run this software on top of Ubuntu or LinuxMCE. I was thinking of integrating the entire thing into my existing HTPC/PVR but I'm not sure yet. It might be better to have dedicated/separate machine. This controller would be able to send/receive via; wifi, Ethernet, IR, X10, & perhaps some other proprietary RF protocols & would be connected to the net. Interested in other peoples ideas, have you tried something similar or have you heard of a better platform then openremote? Cheers, Jed _______________________________________________________ I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you interested in turning a tablet in to a universal remote or using an infrared remote with a tablet? If it's the latter, the MythTV project has support for a wide variety of different remotes under Linux. Since the tablets do not have an IR sensor, I'll assume the first. In that regard, I'm finding most of my recent experience with my tablet to be more annoying than useful. Perhaps it's because I'm using an ad blocking plug-in with the default browser, Fennec is still in alpha stages as far as stability goes, or the networking stack is just painfully bloated. I still use it for a handful of games and as the occasional SD card reader but I've even stopped using VPNC for remote admin work since SSH clients came out for the iPhone. But I'm curious to hear what you have in mind... are you looking to build a platform that can integrate with most set top boxes, PCs, and X10 home automation? -Gary _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
