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2012-10-20 , 01:19
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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Not a bad idea at all; that's how some popular devices like the Griffin Beacon work.



Not as useless as you might think -- you might be able to turn that device into a "learning remote" for the N9/N950/N900. The LIRC server (which has been running on the N900 from the beginning) has plenty of support for receiving IR data, it just hasn't had the hardware available to do it...



Ah, I'm pretty much just a software guy. But yeah, there's no reason an N9/N950 + bluetooth IR dongle couldn't run Pierogi...
Crazy idea here. As a winner of of an N950 I'm going to miss using Pierogi. I don't plan on getting rid of my N900 anytime soon. Thought about using it as some embedded device/little arch Linux server. But now that I think about it, why not use it with Pierogi in my media cabinet? If Pierogi had a remote interface over wi-if, then a client for N9 could send the commands to Pierogi as a server. This would be a pretty cool use of old N900s lying around. Even N900s with some broken hardware could be used.

Any thoughts?
 

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