EMTEC N200 Web remote control

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This piece of software is a web interface to remotely control EMTEC N200 mediaplayer as easy as you would use a standard IR remote.

You can directly control DvdPlayer, the app behind most of the mediaplaier based on Realtek media-processors like the RTD1073DA on wich the EMTEC is built.

The Web interface is built with AJAX tecnology, so you can send multiple commands without have to wait the execution of the single one and without have continuous page refreshes, as you would with a remote IR!



To make things work, you have to follow these simple steps:

1. make possible to pipe commands in DvdPlayer application


2. upload web interface

1. This is the only manual operation. As described in many forums, DvdPlayer is launched on startup from a script, so we have to modify it in a way we can interact with the application. Follow these simple steps:

telnet into your mediaplayer (user root, no password)

telnet IP.OF.YOUR.N200

edit rcS file

vi /usr/local/etc/rcS

you have to add the bold red strings

if [ -f $DEFAULT_AP_DIR/DvdPlayer ] && [ -x $DEFAULT_AP_DIR/DvdPlayer ]; then
cd $DEFAULT_AP_DIR
touch /tmp/command_sender.txt
if [ -f $DEFAULT_AP_DIR/RootApp ] && [ -x $DEFAULT_AP_DIR/RootApp ]; then
	echo Running dvdplayer with RootApp
	tail -f /tmp/command_sender.txt | ./RootApp DvdPlayer&
else
	echo Running dvdplayer
	tail -f /tmp/command_sender.txt | ./DvdPlayer&
fi
else
	/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/script/run_tail
fi

That's it!

2. Now, to install the web interface do the following:

cd /tmp
wget http://adicon.lahost.org/software/EMTEC/Remote/install.sh
chmod a+x install.sh
./install.sh

ATTENTION! This script will reboot your mediacenter to complete the installation. If you don't wont to restart it, you have to execute the single steps by hand, here they are:

mount -o remount,rw /
cd /tmp_orig/
wget http://adicon.lahost.org/software/EMTEC/Remote/Emtec_WebRemote-1.0.tar
cd www
tar -xf ../Emtec_WebRemote-1.0.tar
sync
mount -o remount,ro /

Once restarted, you can connect to your mediaplayer through your phone, PDA, iPhone or whatever browser you want at its address:
http://IP.OF.YOUR.N200/

Resources:
Consumer Electronics Hacker
MHDWorld for Emtec Forum
MHDWorld for Emtec Forum
Thoughts and Challenges
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