-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > But I have another question - can I control the roku remotely from my > laptop while it streams music from my storage server? Yes, you can. It has a very simple API (from which various mobile apps are built). The Roku merely listens on port 8080 for commands like "press up", "press down", "press home", or even just "press u", "press d", "press h". It's pretty fun to try out. $ telnet roku.ip.ad.dr 8080 Escape character is '^]'. J0A15D013978 ETHMAC 00:0d:12:12:12:12 WIFIMAC 00:0d:23:23:23:23 >press u >press l >press l >press ok - From this you might be able to script something more useful. ++++++++++++++++++++ Michael Berkowski Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer Minitex Library Information Network / MnLINK University of Minnesota PGP Public Key: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~berk0081/pgp/pubkey.asc ++++++++++++++++++++ On 11/12/2011 11:20 PM, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:38:18PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: >> Thanks for all the comments, so far. I have been hearing so many things >> about Roku, and the price is good, so I think I'm just going to get one >> of them > > Me too! Thanks for the great ideas. > > But I have another question - can I control the roku remotely from my > laptop while it streams music from my storage server? > > I do not have a TV in the office but I have a nice receiver and set of > speakers. I know that I could set up a Linux box running Apache::MP3 > or GNU MPD but I would like to use Roku since it is smaller and > already works. > > Thoughts? Alternatives? > > Thanks. > florin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6/xkIACgkQ01KJk46VC2ahdQCdGBz0KXQG33qVqOU0mBaGuWiy SG0AoK2v+5dXxQGkJvt1sgAAfjz5Sv9A =AEcW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----