[slinkelist] need a remote contral that uses CDJ and fits on coffee table - My ultimate dream remote

[Chad Seymour]

The latest compaq windows pda has an add on module that gives it a pc card
slot (pcmcia). With that you could add a wireless ethernet card that would
let your pda talk to your computer. Wireless ethernet should be the
ultimate, you don't have to aim it at the equipment, you dont have to be in
the same room, and it's bidrectional, so any command you enter could be
ARQed and wouldn't get lost. In my opinion software development on WinCE is
quite a hassle. It has probably improved in the last couple years, but I
lost my enthusiasm for it. So i think the way to go is to just run a web
browser on the pda and have it talk to the pc running an enhanced version of
CDJASP. This is what I want. I have kept myself from buying a Pronto because
of this dream. Once you have web-based control working on a pda, it
automatically workes on all the other computers in your house that are on
your wireless lan, including your tablet sized computers. I think a tablet
computer is still small enough to be a coffee table remote, but big enough
that you could use it for wireless surfing in your backyard...
I havent checked out CDJReal yet - the software might already be available.

-----Original Message-----
From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
Behalf Of Tang, George
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 1:23 PM
To: AndyStein@aol.com; slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] need a remote contral that uses CDJ and fits
on coffee table


Just an added note: PDA IR beams are too narrow and weak to be used for
remote control.  However, there are third party add-ons to many PDA's that
adds a stronger, wider IR.

-G

-----Original Message-----
From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
Behalf Of AndyStein@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 11:22 AM
To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
Subject: Re: [slinkelist] need a remote contral that uses CDJ and fits
on coffee table


    How difficult would it be to port CDJ to WinCE (or whatever they're
calling it now) so that the remote, or a PDA, could do almost everything CDJ
does without the wires and the computer? New PDAs are beginning to come with
32 MB RAM, which should hold a user file fairly easily.  Even if a PDA
version only allowed users to play discs and tracks and did not include
features such as allowing manual input or CDDB lookup of titles, users could
benefit by using the regular CDJ for the more complicated functions and
reserving the PDA CDJ for simple control of CD players, receivers, playing
songs and discs, etc.  In effect, the PDA program could be a junior version
of CDJ, so that the user transferred his user and playlist files from
computer to PDA whenever necessary.

    Is such a PDA program a difficult port, particularly in the WinCE
context?


    Andrew


In a message dated 6/24/00 7:27:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
TWHumphrey@fuse.net writes:

<< Download the mouse emulator to permit control of most CDJ functions with
a
handheld remote by emulating mouse movements and clicks.  It is available in
the Nirvis user download area.
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Michael Cody
   To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
   Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 12:39 AM
   Subject: [slinkelist] need a remote contral that uses CDJ and fits on
coffee table


   Anyone succesfully created/found anything like this? >>


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