Reggae
February 6th, 2006, 08:54 PM
Hi people,
I wrote a little program with VB6, what it does is connect to a server running on my Windows Media Center. The server is called MCE Controller. The program is simply a remote control that runs over the network, if I press the volume up button for example it sends the text 'vol+' to the server over a winsock tcp connection. When the server receives this it turns the volume up. So what I am trying to accomplish is to be able to do this with my cell phone. I have installed a telnet program on my cell and I am able to connect to my media center over the internet. I can type out the commands, 'vol+' 'close' 'left' 'right' to control the media center and so on. But it is a pain to type all this out on the phone. What I want to do is code a program for my phone that will create a connection to my media centers IP address on a certain port and then have each button on my cell phone send whatever string of text I program it to. and a fancy little picture of a remote would be nice too. I have coding experience with VB but unfortunately none with Java. So i was hoping some people here might have some ideas of where i can start. Any input you may have is appreciated.
Thanks,
Reggae
attached is a picture of the remote I coded in VB might give you an idea of what i want to do.
I wrote a little program with VB6, what it does is connect to a server running on my Windows Media Center. The server is called MCE Controller. The program is simply a remote control that runs over the network, if I press the volume up button for example it sends the text 'vol+' to the server over a winsock tcp connection. When the server receives this it turns the volume up. So what I am trying to accomplish is to be able to do this with my cell phone. I have installed a telnet program on my cell and I am able to connect to my media center over the internet. I can type out the commands, 'vol+' 'close' 'left' 'right' to control the media center and so on. But it is a pain to type all this out on the phone. What I want to do is code a program for my phone that will create a connection to my media centers IP address on a certain port and then have each button on my cell phone send whatever string of text I program it to. and a fancy little picture of a remote would be nice too. I have coding experience with VB but unfortunately none with Java. So i was hoping some people here might have some ideas of where i can start. Any input you may have is appreciated.
Thanks,
Reggae
attached is a picture of the remote I coded in VB might give you an idea of what i want to do.