I was thingking that it would be great to use the N800 as a remote via TCP/IP for media centers like XBMC (for XBOX) or Mediaportal (for Windows).
Does somebody know if preferrebly XBMC has some kind of server that allow you to send inputs like play, volume, up, down and so on. Then you could have an app with the buttons on your N800. Maybe even make an app that looks like Canola but controls XBMC. VNC is to slow and does not seem to handle software scaling to get the screen to fit in 800x480...

XBMC has a web server built in that provides an HTML version of the display on the TV screen. Go into XBMC's network settings and turn it on. Then on your tablet, fire up the web browser and connect to your XBox's IP address. You'll see the interface, and can now select what music or movie to play =O)

Works a treat on my 770, although I've yet to figure out why it's easier than the DVD remote...

Ta,
Mark.

Great just the ansver that I was looking for. Thanks! :-)

Looking at my XBMC web interface with my PC, it looks like I'd need a minimum of 1024x768 to view it well. I don't have my N800 yet, but I wonder how well it will scale this webpage. Can anyone report on that?

Also, if necessary (and this is more of an XBMC question), how easy is it to switch out the XBMC interface with one that's more suitable for the N800's 800x400 resolution?

I picked up 2 xbox's for under 50€ today and will be loading XBMC onto the tomorrow and will let you know how well the N800 displays the page, hopefully it will be better then the DBOX interface

Great, BOFH! My N800 will arrive tomorrow, so I hope to give it a roll sometime this weekend. I ran across a couple of things:

https://xbmcajax.bountysource.com/screenshots

Notice the last screenshot of the N770. I like the look, but found no documentation of it. I installed the AJAX web interface and am using it with my PC-- it's neat, but will definitely be too big. I don't even know if the N800 will support the AJAX that it uses, but the N770 screenshot leads me to think it will.

I also found some other skins that were made to work on PocketPCs and other mobile devices (mostly portrait orientation), but none specifically for the N-series. Perhaps a PSP-tailored skin would be a second-best option at 480x272?

I like the PSP's XBMC interface.. really well done.

Here's what I've experienced so far...

I'm using the microB (Mozilla) browser on the N800's OS2007.

With the default skin (http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/...:Webserver.jpg), I put the browser in fullscreen mode and hid the bottom toolbar. Zoom level at 100% allows you to see about 2/3 of the width and 3/4 of the height. "Fit width to view" looks horrible. The best option I found was 80% zoom. Everything is visible and is arranged correctly. The only problem is that it's so small-- use the stylus, not your fingers.

Then I tried the AJAX web interface. To my surprise, it worked! It is still an unpolished, buggy interface, but the drag 'n drop functionality is there. I think most of the problems I had with it were the same on the PC's browser, so they're not N800 issues.

With both the default interface and the AJAX one, I still find the "web page reloading" factor to be a nuisance. Ideally, I think a Flash-based webpage or possibly a stand-alone program would suit it better. This is obviously much more work, too.

In any case, I'd like to see better use of the screen real estate, and maybe some tailoring to thumb-control (bigger buttons).

Still, very cool and usable! Please post your XBMC-controlling experiences!

I tried switching back to the Opera engine to see if there were any differences, but it would stay on microB always, so I uninstalled microB.

Using the default OS2007 browser (Opera) on the N800 to control XBMC, I frequently get this error:
Connection closed by remote server
http://myxbox.domain.com/xbmcCmds/xb...rameter=select...

That's with the default web interface. With the AJAX one, things don't display very well at 80%, as opposed to 80% on the microB browser.

So, Current XBMC recommendation for OS2007 on the N800:
microB at fullscreen, 80% zoom with toolbar hidden

I've spent countless hours looking for a web server skin that will work well with my Nokia N800 OS2008 and have found nothing. My main requirements were big buttons and text so I could see it well and not have to use the stylus. So I decided to try and modify the original web browser to fit the screen of the N800 and make the buttons bigger.

Here's what I got so far: http://www.mediafire.com/?r91hnemgenz

I had to remove some buttons to make the other ones big enough to control with your fingers. Actually the only ones I made bigger were the VIDEOS, PICTURES, MUSIC, MUSIC PLAYLIST buttons. I deleted the VIDEO PLAYLIST button and the XBMC logo. I'll spend tomorrow trying to make the play/stop/pause/ff/rw buttons bigger.

I've also made the text over twice as big so it's easier to click on to select a movie/song title/album/picture. This is where I've run into trouble. If you have an extra long movie or song title it doesn't play nice with the screen and the next one under it. I really have no idea where to look. All I was doing was modifying the .css file and seeing what happened. If someone could let me know how to wrap text that would be great.

I'm not done yet but I'd like to put it out there for other people to play with and help me on it. If you install the contents of the web.zip file directly into your web folder (E:apps/xbmc/web) then this will overwrite your existing web browser so make sure you back that up. Then just point your N800 to your xboxip/default.asp and put your 800 in full screen mode @100% with fit screen OFF this is very important or you'll loose the entire left side of your screen, don't ask me why, it just does. If you want it to still be able to access the original web browser then put the contents of this web.zip file into another folder called N800 in your xbox's web folder, then you would navigate your portable device to xboxip/N800/default.asp instead of just xboxip/default.asp. I didn't change any functionality of the program I wouldn't know where to begin. All I did was change the layout a bit to better support an 800 x 480 touchscreen.

Sorry, I forgot to take screen shots and it's 1am so I'm not turning everything on again to do that. Maybe I'll post those tomorrow. My biggest problem is the text right now so if someone could shed some light on it, that would be great!

Thanks,

J