[200] PLoNK - Popcorn Hour Android Remote Controll - Alpha release 091127

[PoPEye]

I'm happy to announce a first alpha release of one of my larger Android projects: PLoNK, the android remote control for Popcorn hour. It includes not only the functions of the remote but also browsing an launching of media.

You can get more information in my wiki where you can grab both the android apk and CSI packages




NOTE: currently only remote play of movies are supported. The app might be buggy but thats what you get for now, enjoy

PS. Upcoming releases will support more media, covers, local phone browsing and launching of media.

[PoPEye]

I think I got all components in place for a full remote control including the option of launching movies/music/photo for both the A/B 1x0 and the C200 . The worst part in coding all buttons .
Anyone interested in testing or coding?
Preferred screen sizes? Planning to do different layouts depending on screen space.

[daniel_owen_uk]

I will do some testing if you wouldn't mind.

I have two 1280x720 screens, and an A Series & C Series PCH

Phone is a HTC Hero (the cool one with the chin).

Ouhh just thought of a draw back, neither PCH has any physical storage, is that going to be an issue?

[PoPEye]

I meant phone screen size since the "droid" is on the lose ...
A requirement will be support for CSI (and thus hdd, CF-addapter) since I will utilize a custom php and llink, and wifi of course....
Will first focus on gui for G1 size's but next step will be both smaller and larger screen sizes once I get a hang of the UI stuff...

[daniel_owen_uk]

To be fair I did tell you my phone, so you could have looked it up

[PoPEye]

(11-02-2009 05:32 PM)daniel_owen_uk Wrote:  To be fair I did tell you my phone, so you could have looked it up

Don't need to look up, been working with android stuff for almost a year now. Not much coding though.

Changed the thread name from "pharc" to PLoNK2.0 since my original PLoNK will work both on A100 and C200

[PoPEye]

well Im stuck with llink refusing to execute a shellscript with a custom echo command to /tmp/gaya_bc ...

[dc11ab]

Permissions? Who executes the script and where?

[PoPEye]

Sorry.
I've set llink to start using the CSI general functions and copied+edited llink_start.sh from the /share/Apps/LLink folder.
Llink is configured to run a script called plonk.sh (chmod'ed 755, named plonk) . During testing I've tried starting llnik like:

Code:

./llink -dv2048 -f /share/Apps/PLoNK/llink_plonk.conf >log.txt

log.txt contained info that "plonk" was a ok script.
Executing the plonk script from shell works fine but I suspect llink have some problems in executing. I've included some "echo test>test.txt" just to see if the script gets called but failed...

Background:
the plonk.sh will run a echo to /tmp/gaya_bc with a url to a custom php script causing C200 to show the page with a link to yet another url containing the file I want to play...

If I had the knowledge I could write a © daemon listening on a port and just echo the input to /tmp/gaya_bc ....

[lundman]

and where can I read this log output?

[PoPEye]

Sorry but I dont have the output right now but it was only one line, where llink reports its got the "plonk" script...

[lundman]

so its a cgicmd, and you run it with cmd= or something, i forget

[PoPEye]

Exactly. An example http://192.168.0.11:8008/&plonk=http://1.../movie.avi where .0.11:8008 is llink on the PCH and .0.7:8001 is llink running on my nas. Running "./plonk.sh http://192.160.0.7:8001/Movies/movie.avi" from shell works as intended, the URL above doesnt execute the script but the page loads ok in the browser...

[lundman]

yeah, I'm going to have to insist on the log output

[PoPEye]

Ok, but I dont know how to get a full log. Will see tonight what I can get..