From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Jun 5 17:35:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20548 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA20541 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ct.picker.com) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:34:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA05922; Fri, 5 Jun 98 20:34:36 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA01907; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:34:27 -0400 Message-Id: <19980605203427.C1773@ct.picker.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 20:34:27 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Amancio Hasty Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Remote device multiplexing Mail-Followup-To: Amancio Hasty , multimedia@freebsd.org References: <19980602134354.A4551@ct.picker.com> <199806022030.NAA01724@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199806022030.NAA01724@rah.star-gate.com>; from Amancio Hasty on Tue, Jun 02, 1998 at 01:30:15PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Amancio Hasty: |Sleep mode for Fxtv ? | |Just want to wakeup fxtv via my x10 remote control -- kind of like |a turn tv on remote control well coming to think about it |thats precisely what I want a "turn on tv x10 remote control command". Yeah, I thought about that too :-) After pondering a little I decided Fxtv was the was the wrong place to put it, and didn't have the time to implement the (IMO) "right" solution. That being, to have a "remoted" daemon that multiplexes remote events to multiple clients. That way you could share the remote between remote-aware applications. The remote clients would register with the remoted daemon (rather than moused), and remoted would connect to moused. One of those registered clients could be an application launcher, another one (possibly spawned by the launcher) could be Fxtv. Apps launched don't necessarily need to be mouse aware (e.g. netscape, etc.). Hot sequences on the remote would allow you to "select" a registered client (which would receive the bulk of the remote's key events while selected). Really, this'd be cool. Since these remotes work around 300Mhz and aren't line-of-site, you could be in a separate room hitting remote buttons which would fire off all kinds of tasks. Say, fire up your ISP link and grab your mail (which could play an audio file if you had any) or stock market quotes, etc. In your case, maybe play your voicemail for the day for you and let you delete/save/proceed while you take care of other things. Or maybe fire off Fxtv and grab a cool pic while watching a movie on the big TV in the other room. Would be a fun project for someone that has the time :-) Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message