Android app to take commands via wifi?

tonyyeb · 23 May 2014 at 10:23

Hi all

Before I try to write an app to do this does anyone know of an existing app that will either take commands from a remote machine or automatically/periodically download them via xml or similar and then perform them?

An example would be to get the device to launch the movie player and play a video (possible with parameters such as loop 10 times but that isn't important right now).

All help appreciated

tonyyeb · 23 May 2014 at 20:31

That was one of the first things I tired but I can't get ADB over wifi working with this particular Android device I'm using

tonyyeb · 23 May 2014 at 21:50

Ah ok, I saw the commands being used and assumed it was ADB. Just playing with SSH now but looks like a I need root privilege to launch apps / intents.

tonyyeb · 24 May 2014 at 13:26

It's ok I've managed to sort it. Instead of launching direct through SSH I called ADB over SSH

Now I'm busy scripting file copying (video files), then launching them in the movie player... Exactly what I wanted!

Thanks a lot Pho, really appreciate al your help