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play web videos on your pc from your device

My pc serves as my music player and is hooked up to a competent pair of speakers. Most of the times I want to listen to a song though I'm not near the computer, but I have my phone in my hand. I wanted to be able to take advantage of the big speakers instead of listening to the tinny sound of the phone speakers, without having to move an inch.

As I mostly use YouTube and such to listen to individual songs, I wanted to be able to redirect the current url to firefox on my desktop.

The solution I found is to install nanoweb on the desktop (apache works fine too), change it to run as my desktop user, not www-data (you have to edit /etc/nanoweb.conf for that) and have it run the following index.php

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

$u = $_GET['url'];

if (isset($u)&&trim($u!="")){

   exec('DISPLAY=:0 firefox "'.$u.'"');

} 

?>

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

<form action=index.php>

   <input name=url autofocus>

   <button>go</button>

</form>

Now when I visit http://192.168.1.XX from my phone, an input box shows up where I can paste a url which opens in a tab in firefox on the pc.

You can also enter the url directly as such

Code:

http://192.168.1.xx/?url=maemo.org

Next step is to install sharetus on my N9 and configure it to be able to share to my little service with a click.

Re: play web videos on your pc from your device

I installed latest sharetus from here https://github.com/jaywink/sharetus/....8.1_armel.deb (dependencies needed, use the package manager for easy install)

(big thanks goes to jaywink here)

and despite the warning I had to edit both /opt/sharetus/sharetus.json and ~/.sharetus/preferences.json

To the first I added

Code:

"playTo" : {

                "name" : "playTo my pc",

                "url" : "http://192.168.1.XXX/?url={{url}}" 

                }

after the clipboard entry and to the other I added

Code:

            "playTo" : {

                "name" : "playTo my pc",

                "url" : "http://192.168.1.XXX/?url={{url}}",

                "order" : 1,

                "visible" : 1

                }

after the clipboard entry. In the user preferences file I believe name and url are not needed, but as the system file is in danger to be overwritten I kept them there too for backup. Adding them only in the user preferences as per the documentation didn't work. I also changed the order of the diaspora entry to avoid any conflicts.

Re: play web videos on your pc from your device

My favorite site didn't work, does it work for you?

Code:

http://%22%3bsudo%20reboot%3becho%22

Re: play web videos on your pc from your device

My internal network does have a firewall. And sudo has a password. So no, it doesn't.

If you'd like the previous song to stop when you play another one here's a more elaborate script

index.php

Code:

<?php

$u = $_GET['url'];

echo $u;

$u = rawurlencode($u);

if (isset($u)&&trim($u!="")){

   exec('DISPLAY=:0 firefox "http://localhost/openInPopup.php?url='.$u.'"');

} 

?>

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

<form action=index.php>

   <input name=url autofocus>

   <button>go</button>

</form>

<form action=index.php>

   <input type=hidden name=url value=about:blank>

   <button>stop</stop>

</form>

openInPopup.php

Code:

<input id=url value="<?=rawurldecode($_GET['url'])?>" />

<script>

  window.open(document.getElementById('url').value,"playToPopup",'height=500,width=1000');

</script>

you still get a bunch of new tabs however. If somebody knows how to open a new named window from the command line for firefox, or how to run javascript from the terminal let me know.

the obvious

Code:

firefox javascript:window.open( ... )

doesn't work

Re: play web videos on your pc from your device

How do u gyus get such ideas:(
good job:)