Remote control feature on Amarok

[Milot Shala]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Milot Shala <milot.shala at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh just just remembered
>>
>> Since SC 4.4 plasmoids has a Sharing plasmoids functionality built in. I
>> havent used that feature yet, but i guess it has a lot in common with what I
>> wrote about :)
>>
>> p.s. I'm more a user, not a Amarok dev and can't provide mucth techincal
>> help
>>
>> On 18 March 2010 17:23, Milot Shala <milot.shala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Lukas <1lukas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It would be dam great to have fully featured remote control solution for
>>>> KDE.
>>>>
>>>> One of the best phone i had was SE k700i because of its support of HID
>>>> (human interface device). SE also had provided a suite to creating your own
>>>> profiles, so i was able to control everything from presentation, mouse,
>>>> media player etc.
>>>>
>>>> We have LIRC for IR connection, we have WebUI for Internet connections,
>>>> i guess there should be something for bluetooth too.
>>>>
>>>> Why do I, as an end user, should "bother" about protocols and similar
>>>> stuff?
>>>>
>>>> Having chain like
>>>> [dbus | keyboard and mouse emulator] <-> KRemoteControlCenter <->
>>>> [Bluetooth | IR | WiFi | internet] <-> [Iphone | UIQ | S60 | Android | etc]
>>>>
>>>> Where communication would be standardized and any device could load xml
>>>> based profile and choose the best link (bt or wifi etc) to the desktop.
>>>>
>>>> So any app could have remote control support just by creating simple xml
>>>> file. Not talking about pushing feedback to connected user Like "kget just
>>>> finished distro.x.y.iso.\n Hash check completed.\n Blank CD detected, would
>>>> you like to burn iso?" form anywhere anytime.
>>>>
>>>> Hope you got my point :)
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Hi Lucas,
>>>
>>> I really like your idea and would be perfect to make that happening! For
>>> that reason I started this topic but my interests were mainly applying such
>>> functionality to Amarok, but it can be a nice interface to implement it on
>>> KDE as a whole!
>>>
>>> Currently I am trying DBus interfaces of Amarok, I will be back here
>>> again.
>>>
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>>> Milot Shala, Software Engineer
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> Well I am a Qt/C++ developer and I don't know the KDELibs that well, so I
> am trying to be one of Amarok devs in the near future and help contribute to
> such good player :D
>
> --
> Milot Shala, Software Engineer
> www.spartansoft.org | m.shala at spartansoft.org
>


Since yesterday I was searching a good way to make this happen on Amarok, I
have seen that MPD (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon_Wiki) is
doing a good job for its purpose, but I don't think that Amarok end-users
want to bother creating a music server then control that from their clients;
IMO I think that users want to have easiest way to enable Amarok remote
control, then the remote control remind what's their IP address is, they
enter the IP on their mobile device and they are happy controlling Amarok
from the distance.

As for implementation I think there are two possibilities to achieve this
goal:


   1. Create a standalone proxy application that accepts network socket
   messages from mobile device and call appropriate amarok dbus messages (Play,
   Pause, Next, GetMetadata etc.)
   2. Create a proxy class inside that binds socket to the local machine and
   let users enable or disable remote control features on Settings, and of
   course access Amarok methods using DBus.

What do you think?

I will clone my own repository and try this maybe it is more appropriate.


Sincerely,
-- 
Milot Shala, Software Engineer
www.spartansoft.org | m.shala at spartansoft.org
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