Herbert beat me too it :)



On 22 July 2013 22:55, Herbert Graf <hkgraf@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 14:30 -0600, Dwayne Reid wrote:
> > Good day to all.
> >
> > My buddy is looking for a small remote control unit that he can carry
> > on his belt.  He wants to control Winamp that is running on his
> > Windows computer.  Because he wants to use this device both inside
> > his home as well as in the yard, he figures that a remote control
> > that communicates via WiFi might work well for him.  He has speakers
> > at several locations inside his house as well as nice outdoor
> > speakers that cover his yard nicely.  All he needs now is some way to
> > control Winamp (pause / restart playback, skip ahead to beginning of
> > next song).  He currently has good WiFi coverage in any of the areas
> > that he would want to use the remote control.
> >
> > The remote itself can be either simple or complex.  Simple would be
> > only a couple buttons with no display.  Complex can be anything with
> > several (or lots of) buttons and with or without a display.
> >
> > Obviously, there would need to be some form of application running on
> > his computer that would map the commands from the remote control into
> > the software program of his choice (Winamp in this case).
> >
> > Is anyone aware of either something commercially available *or* a
> > well-documented DIY-type project?
> >
> > I was looking at the remote control for a GoPro Hero 3 - this seems
> > like a possibility but I would need to come up with something that
> > runs on his computer so as to actually interpret and map the button
> > presses to commands.
>
> Get a cheap android smart phone. Pretty much any will do. Tons of apps
> out there to do this sort of thing.
>
> TTYL
>
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