Remote control for computer

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:32

Is there anything I could get so I could lay in bed and control winamp/media player without getting up? maybe through a bluetooth dongle ive got or something

I fancy falling asleep to some morcheeba

edit- the power of google
(TRUST)NB-5100P MULTIMEDIA REMOTE CONTROL £17.86

Edward01 · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:36

If your running windows xp media center you can grab one of those controls if not how about a wireless keyboard?

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:39

Edward01 said:
If your running windows xp media center you can grab one of those controls if not how about a wireless keyboard?

just windows xp sp2, i use old skool winamp 2.5e (1999!)

Edward01 · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:44

there is shareware softwere you can download that will intergrate any remote control with the pc if you have an Infa red port, buts its quite complicated and doesn't work well, from what i remember. Apart from that i'm out suggestions i'm afraid. unless you buy a tv card or what not that has one.

Tosk · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:44

i use a Streamzap PC Remote myself, works like a dream

Working OS's: Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, XP Media Center, or 2003.
There is a linux mod for it on the net as well.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1993/allgo7.jpg

ocuk doesn't sell it tho so you will have to look else where

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:52

Tosk said:
i use a Streamzap PC Remote myself, works like a dream

Working OS's: Microsoft Windows 98, 98 SE, ME, 2000, XP, XP Media Center, or 2003.
There is a linux mod for it on the net as well.

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/1993/allgo7.jpg

ocuk doesn't sell it tho so you will have to look else where

how much and can i buy it in the high street?
Does anyone know if those trust ones work ok? £17 is quite cheap and it looks nice and small. that steamzap is only £20 anyway

Tosk · 16 Mar 2007 at 00:59

ive only seen it selling on the net. ive not seen it sold on the high street yet

i was gonna buy the trust 1 myself but soon as i read up on the steamzap i went for that instead

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 01:02

Tosk said:
ive only seen it selling on the net. ive not seen it sold on the high street yet

i was gonna buy the trust 1 myself but soon as i read up on the steamzap i went for that instead

yeh, trust inst exactly know for quality!

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 01:23

Problem solved. The joys of the K750i and remote desktop/media player. now i have a small controller thats better than crappy infared! -and free!

easy to use on media player and not so bad on winamp

Subliminal Aura · 16 Mar 2007 at 02:58

I use a PSP as a wireless joystick.

manoz · 16 Mar 2007 at 03:28

geeza said:
Is there anything I could get so I could lay in bed and control winamp/media player without getting up? maybe through a bluetooth dongle ive got or something

I fancy falling asleep to some morcheeba

edit- the power of google
(TRUST)NB-5100P MULTIMEDIA REMOTE CONTROL £17.86

I discovered an awesome piece of software called salling clicker, liked it so much, ended up buying it. The cool thing about it is that you can not only control winamp, you can launch it remotely, browse your music library on the phone and enqueue tracks. Lots of mediplayer and itunes controls aswell. Well worth checking out. You can even shut down windows and control the mouse.

http://www.salling.com/

The free version allows full functionality but only lasts up to 15 clicks before you have to reconnect. The winamp plugin is available on the free stuff page and there's a thread on the site's forums explaining how to use it

blighter · 16 Mar 2007 at 03:30

manoz said:
I discovered an awesome piece of software called salling clicker, liked it so much, ended up buying it. The cool thing about it is that you can not only control winamp, you can launch it remotely, browse your music library on the phone and enqueue tracks. Lots of mediplayer and itunes controls aswell. Well worth checking out. You can even shut down windows and control the mouse.

http://www.salling.com/

The free version allows full functionality but only lasts up to 15 clicks before you have to reconnect. The winamp plugin is available on the free stuff page and there's a thread on the site's forums explaining how to use it

no vista support yet

http://www.jaylee.org/RemoteControl/
Bluetooth Remote Control for Windows Mobile
thats what i use on my SPV C600 and it is lovely

(and very simple too!)

manoz · 16 Mar 2007 at 03:39

^I'm in the process of beta testing the latest version which now supports bluesoleil bluetooth stack(I'm using xp x64 but vista support is added). In the beta section (which is only viewable to members) a member is reporting it works with vista x64 pretty well.

I'd like to point out that the latest version of salling clicker works perfectly with Widcomm 6.0.1.4400 64bit on Vista.

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 10:05

tried salling clicker and it just says 'bluetooth is unavailable;' strange that, seems as ican easily make a connection with IVT BlueSoleil

manoz · 16 Mar 2007 at 13:41

^oh yeah forgot to point out, bluesoleil isn't available in the current full version, it's only in the beta but the new version is nearly finished.

geeza · 16 Mar 2007 at 15:56

manoz said:
^oh yeah forgot to point out, bluesoleil isn't available in the current full version, it's only in the beta but the new version is nearly finished.

not sure ive always used version 2.3.0.0