2013-12-30, 20:48
(2013-12-29, 18:07)furii Wrote:(2013-12-29, 04:24)alucard77 Wrote: Hey guys,
I have a kinda insane question. But can this be used to control an iPhone? I am going to be using my iPhone 4S as the main house XBMC player and all I need now is something that can send a message to my 4S to turn it on. Ideally it would be great to turn it off as well, but one step at a time.
So anyone know if there are any hacks for this to make it control an iPad.
that is an insane question and no it cannot
Actually, I have been doing a bit of research and this should not be that hard to do if Harmony had any interest in doing any support for XBMC:
- The 4S can be woken by BT commands like clicking a button on a keyboard.
- Activator can be used to launch XBMC on iPhone or iPad wake up
- If Harmony decided to support HTML controls (which should be easy as this is what the device currently does anyway) you would be able to control XBMC in that matter. The same way you can use XBMC remote.
So all Harmony would need to do is send a BT control and enable HTTP commands to allow this to happen.
Which actually brings me to the my next question. Is this a learning hub, if you will?
The reason I ask, is because this is what I would love to do.
- Pair my 4S to a BT keyboard
- Have the Harmony Hub learn the BT command from a key
- In theory, I would think, as long as the Harmony Hub sends out the key control, it can turn on the 4s from a sleep state.
- Then I can just switch to XBMC Remote
It would be nice if for the money, Harmony provided an API to be able to add things like I mentioned above, instead of us having to wait for them to do something. This thing is exremely close to being ideal.