Hi all,

Basically I have a 770 with OS2006 at the moment, and what I want to do, I would like to be able to use it as an MCE and home automation controller.

I have an MCE machine with doubles up as the home automation server, and everything on it is controllable via TCP/IP.

At the moment I use a webpage which I wrote myself in ASP.NET with AJAX to do this, running on IIS on the MCE machine, and have MiniMo on the 770 to point to the webpage. But obviously its a very long-winded route and very slow being a web solution. (Click on a button on the webpage in MiniMo on the 770, MiniMo communicates with the IIS on the MCE machine, IIS+ASP.NET parses the request and converts it to a TCP/IP message)

So what I want on the 770, is a touch screen interface app, which lets me put a few buttons on the screen, and when I press the buttons, it will sent out TCP messages to a pre-configured IP/port. The main thing is the app must be skinnable.

Any tips/suggestions/advice/recommendations?

Thanks.

You could write this program in python rather easily. (if you use Eagle for the GUI, by far the easiest way of making a GUI on Maemo)

just a few buttons sending requests to a webserver, that isn't hard to do. (just a few lines of code, please look at basic urlib examples in python and search for Eagle and python for examples using the GUI toolkit)

The trouble is that is isn't "skinnable". It just looks like a normal Maemo application . Using PyGame you can make the GUI look like anything you want, but it is more difficult to program than eagle. (But I don't have much experience scripting Pygame)

Thanks but prefer not too do any programming!