Hi schasch,

you're right, there should be an easy-to-use GUI to (remote)control your VDR box.
That's actually one of the reasons why I wanted to get a phone like the N900.

I'm really surprised that there is no solution available yet according to your post from april. If that's really the case, then I'll program one for the N900.
A while ago i created a simple GUI written in Qt4 which talks to the VDR using the SVDRP protocoll over a TCP connection. It was successfully running on a windows mobile phone thanks to Qt4's platform independance.

In principle i just need to recompile it for the N900. however, i haven't had the time to setup a development environement for the N900 yet.

if you still follow this thread and you're still interested in a GUI, please contact me, then i'll give u at least this simple gui.

for the long run, i'll plan to write a full-featured control app for the N900 where u can e.g. list epg info, program timers and so on. Thanks to the clean SVDRP protocol, it's really easy to do so. i _only_ need to find some time

cheers,
Tom