2011-05-23, 14:59
Hi everyone,
I've got a solution for using XBMC Commander to start up XBMC if it's not already running if anyone is interested... particularly useful to me as I run XBMC on my main PC and have to manually start it/switch monitors to the TV (VNC server/wireless keyboard/virtual mouse/getting up off the sofa all work but nothing is as satisfying as hitting a button in XBMC Commander and it all magically happening!)
In fact, I've got two solutions :-) One works right now (sniffing for WOL magic packets) and the other one is a small local webserver which XBMC Commander can throw a HTTP request to via a custom menu item on the Remote page ... right now, that solution is not much use because that menu isn't shown when XBMC isn't running (grywnn very kindly agreed to add this to his todo list for a future release - thanks grywnn!) but the WOL sniffer works great as an alternative until that feature is in.
If anyone is interested, please respond to the separate thread I've created which outlines the two solutions and which will also hopefully determine if it's something many people would like to use.
Thanks!
I've got a solution for using XBMC Commander to start up XBMC if it's not already running if anyone is interested... particularly useful to me as I run XBMC on my main PC and have to manually start it/switch monitors to the TV (VNC server/wireless keyboard/virtual mouse/getting up off the sofa all work but nothing is as satisfying as hitting a button in XBMC Commander and it all magically happening!)
In fact, I've got two solutions :-) One works right now (sniffing for WOL magic packets) and the other one is a small local webserver which XBMC Commander can throw a HTTP request to via a custom menu item on the Remote page ... right now, that solution is not much use because that menu isn't shown when XBMC isn't running (grywnn very kindly agreed to add this to his todo list for a future release - thanks grywnn!) but the WOL sniffer works great as an alternative until that feature is in.
If anyone is interested, please respond to the separate thread I've created which outlines the two solutions and which will also hopefully determine if it's something many people would like to use.
Thanks!