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Just tried it on my Nokia 770 and it works very good! Simple and intuitive, just my taste!

This is similar to the Myth Web Remote... Already included in KnoppMyth by the way!

I tried hunting around for a web remote I could base this one on, but didn't find that. I wish I had, that would have saved some time.

:) Perhaps you can take a look at MWR and update it with with a layout for the iPhone. Do that and I'll include the updated MWR w/ KnoppMyth. BTW, MWR does work with the iPhone.

I had originally set up my remote with a script that issues the command and then redirected back to the remote page, but found it was much faster if the button pressing was requested asynchronously (I suppose it's not technically AJAX, as it lacks the XML piece of that).

To me, it doesn't matter what you use. So long as it works well and can work with any browser (well, any modern browser).

I'll have it to you in a week or so... let me know where I should send it.

Hi, I've just added an URL to this excellent article in http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Telnet_socket#Examples

Regards!

FYI, this always works flawlessly on Mythbuntu. No extra setup since I'm not a Linux guru, it took me a little longer to set up. That means it took me 5 minutes.

GREAT app! I like this better than the Lirc remote I have been using.

Nice one. Ideally I'd like to emulate Music.app and Video.app's interfaces for browsing the media library but Myth's telnet interface doesn't seem to have the ability to load a specific file, only to switch channels :(

I have been dieing for a wireless keyboard for my mythtv box... I have a iPod touch and will be setting this up next week instead! Thank you so much!

BTW its also worth setting security on your /remote context such that it can only be accessed by local clients. Otherwise god only knows who could by controling your tv!

I've set mine up with the following configuration in apache:

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168.1

Ok.. I put this on my osx mytgtv frontend.. here's how...

1) Enable Presonal Web Server in System Prefs-Sharing-Services
2) Put the source folder "remote" in Library->Webserver-Documents
3) create a new folder "cgi-bin" inside library-webserver-documents-remote
4) copy the "remote.py" file from the ".../remote" directory there..
5) enable network remote in myth frontend prefs

I think that was it..

This is amazing! Thanks a lot.

Hi, Thanks for very interesting article. I really enjoyed reading all of your articles.

I tried following the readme. But I think my main problem is that i dont know how to get CGI scripts working in Ubuntu. the Web page comes up, but it does not execute. My first sign of trouble was that I didnt have a cgi-bin folder in my /var/www directory, so I created the folder manually. There is no other cgi-bin folder on my box. I also tried installing some cgi and python apache mods using apt-get. Where should i go for help? Google isnt proving too successful for me right now.

App looks awesome btw!

Thanks
Daniel

But this page looks like it's got some of the help you need.

Looks beautiful, worked wonderful on mythbuntu after a little tweaking. Thanks for the work!

Following the following directions to get the remote working on Knoppmyth

1. download the archive and extract it.
2. copy the remote dir to /var/www/iphone
3. created the dir /usr/lib/cgi-bin
4. moved remote.py to /usr/lib/cgi-bin

I was using your web interface as a remote and it worked pretty well. Now I have switched to Touchpad Pro. Great free VNC app for the iPhone that lets you use the screen as a touchpad and also has a keypad that works really well with MythTV. I haven't used the (not free) Touchpad Media Server so I can't comment on that. http://www.touchpadpro.com

Wow... that set up in about 30 seconds flat! Great little ap! It works better than my MCE remote! lol... and from the other room, too!

This is great, at least now I know what to do with my iPod. It was real easy to set up and works like a charm. Thank you!

hey. so i put the files, except remote.py, in my /var/www folder on ubuntu. everything looks fine. i put the remote.py file into /usr/lib/cgi-bin and can bring the file up via my browser.

the index.html and keypad.html files reflect "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/remote.py", so i know i did everything right so far.
mythtv's frontend is set up correctly already as well, as i tested it with the previously mentoined mythweb remote.

i try it out, and can load the interface of the app, but nothing executes.

do i need to edit anything in apache2?
or does anyone know of anything else i did wrong?

If you're on the box with MythTV and try to load /cgi-bin/remote.py?cmd=jump+mainmenu (or perhaps it's /usr/lib/cgi-bin/remote.py?cmd=jump+mainmenu for you?) does your setup jump to the main MythTV menu? I'm trying to see if the break down is between the HTML remote pages loading the remote.py script or if it's a problem with the script issuing the telnet commands to the server.

Did you make modifications to the *.html files? If so, could you send me them so I can take a look?

Glad to see that you're interested in the remote. Hopefully you'll be able to get it working.

I'm having this same type of problem under Ubuntu. I checked my apache2 log and found many of this type of errors.

[Tue Jun 24 10:22:32 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Invalid URI in request key enter

Any idea how to fix that?

Nice! I like it, seems to work well. I also found some good stuff like this on a site i found called http://www.iphonenewsvault.com. Check it out. It seems to be a pretty good site too.