December 7, 2008

mplayer remote control with k750i

mobile phone + bluetooth = remote control

In order to pair my phone with computer I've used "Bluetooth Applet" that comes with Ubuntu Desktop. Of course, I was dreaming that everything will work form that point: I will move joystick on the phone to the right and mouse cursor will move to the right too. But of course it didn't.

I've been looking through Google search results and realized that a bunch of programs were written to perform this task. I don't remember all of them, but I chose anyRemote and it had the work done.

I've installed java client on my phone. Just used Bluetooth Applet to send /usr/share/anyremote/client/anyRemote.jar to my phone.

Then I've run
anyremote -f /etc/anyremote/Server-mode/mplayer.cfg

From my phone I've started anyRemote, searched for any server and connected.

Thats all. Now I am using my phone as remote control for my PC. I can control video playback, toggle fullscreen mode and open new video files.