Android as a Universal Remote & for HA?

**jalyst** · 09-26-2009, 02:20 AM

I was wondering whether there's any good Universal Remote or HA software being developed in the Android ecosystem?

Does anyone know of anything under way or a related Linux project that could be re-adapted for Android?

Cheers
HA = Home Automation

**jalyst** · 09-26-2009, 10:04 AM

anyone, thoughts?

**atleastzero** · 09-26-2009, 10:15 AM

It would depend more on the phone running android, since most universal remotes still use IR as their medium for controlling devices. I haven't seen anything more than gmote, which is not too bad for controlling audio/video stored on a computer.

**jalyst** · 09-26-2009, 10:20 AM

Oh yeah that's a given...
I haven't been able to find a hardware base that's at feature parity with some of the top end UR's.
But anything with IR's a good start & I've got that; Axim X50V, almost fully ported.

**jalyst** · 09-26-2009, 11:14 AM

gmote's okay but it's not really UR software, more just a media browser etc...

**atleastzero** · 09-26-2009, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by jalyst

gmote's okay but it's not really UR software, more just a media browser etc...

Yeah, not really universal at all. But if you use a computer as your media display and storage, it can control what you're watching and the volume at which you do so.

Would be cool to have a universal remote for TVs and HA like you're saying though.

**jalyst** · 09-27-2009, 10:41 AM

I have something roughly like this visualised... (see attached txt file)

I have an old Axim X50v which android is being ported to atm...
But progress is slow so I may have to find a better supported device soon.

Any thoughts/ideas/advice greatly appreciated!

Cheers