Topic: Chumbymote overhaul and some more features on the way.
I am fairly new to the chumbyverse but once I got my info 3.5 I knew the first thing I wanted to be able to do is control the deivce from a browser so that I can use my smart phone, desktop, tablet, gtv, etc...basicaly not having to be where the chumby is. I started working up some cgi script and then found Chumbymote ( http://wecreategames.com/blog/?p=181)
Basically it is a set of cgi files to be placed in /psp/cgi-bin that allow you to control the device from any brower as well as letting you see a screen cap of the widget currently showing on the scree.... and it was good...but I wanted it to do more...so I dived.
I wanted to keep the screen uncluttered as I will be using this on small screens as well as big. Going forward I will try to make a more dynamic layout so it will fit the big and the small of screens in the wild. In that light I broke things down into multiple pages with loose categories....Main, Admin, Radio and Podcast
Main handles screen functions, widget control and volume
Admin handles reboots, restarts and the like
Radio handles streams and the FMradio
Podcast will handle an interface with a chumbized version of bashpodder so that you will be able to stream or play from files the various podcasts you frequent.
I cleaned up the event and control methods and added the hooks for various functions.
So what is missing, what could be done better, who is good at dynamic layout??
Much thanks to the folks who made Chumbymote in the first place, it saved me some time in getting started on this.
You can get the most current version of this overhauled version at http://tomwsmf.com/chumby/chumbymote/chumbymote.zip