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2012-10-20 , 01:51
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Originally Posted by jackburton View Post
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?
Well, it makes for a very expensive dedicated IR controller, but yeah, there's no reason why you couldn't do that. Right now, the biggest problem is that Pierogi is still a monolithic Qt GUI app; back in the spring, I started trying to detach the back-end code and turn it into a library, but that ended up being a bigger project than I had expected. I still hope to do it, but there are still a few other Pierogi projects I'd like to get squared away first...

But you don't need to wait for me! If you're just going to use your N900 to control a single device, the LIRC server is already available and perfect for this use. You could just start up LIRC with a config file for your device, then log in remotely and give it the commands you want. (Or, set up a cgi-bin script of some sort to contain the LIRC commands, fire up an httpd, and point a web browser at your N900 to run the device. I actually haven't yet set up a web server on my N900, I keep meaning to do that...)

The website www.lirc.org has lots of details about the LIRC project, although it takes a little bit of effort to dredge through it all.
 

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