My SmartRemote

Thomas Wheeler wrote:

Very nice setup and nice progress so far.  I am familiar with the Htwebremote project and currently using it temporarily.  I would be interested in how you were able to incorporate the “Devices” into the smartRemote.

Nice job!

Tom

Not exactly sure what your asking.  Are you asking how I pulled in the web interface into the SmartRemote touchscreen.  If so then you just use the "Web Page" component in MyDesigner6 and point it at the IP of your HTWebRemote instance.  From there you're directly interfacing with HTWebRemote.  If you're wondering how I use HTWebRemote under the covers in macros and physical button presses, I did that through a macro that calls the HTTP API on HTWebRemote.  Here is what my macro looks like for my projector:

Macro|GetURL|http://localhost:5000?devname=JVC%20RS2100&cmd=¶m=!

I have HTWebRemote running on the RPI4 that myServer6 is running on so I used localhost but you just fill in the correct IP and port that HTWebRemote is running on and then fill in the appropriate device name.  Then when you want to send a command you just call it like this:

<macro_name>|<p1>~<p2>

Great setup!  I haven’t looked at the “Web page”  component of MyServer6 yet but I will when I get my Smartremote back.   I have my HTwebremote on a Pi as well in host mode.   I’ll have to play with the Macros and Web Page to see if I can get this working.  I hope it’s easier than some of the other stuff.  

Thank you,

Tom

DId you do anything special to get your Apple TV to respond quicker? Are you using IP or IR to control it? 

If I use the IP its at least 1.5-2 second delay to get any control for the Apple TV- I have the hard buttons still being controlled IP but made a pad on the screen to control IR since I know the people in my house will respond if they have to wait that long in between each press. 

RxJoshRx wrote:

DId you do anything special to get your Apple TV to respond quicker? Are you using IP or IR to control it? 

If I use the IP its at least 1.5-2 second delay to get any control for the Apple TV- I have the hard buttons still being controlled IP but made a pad on the screen to control IR since I know the people in my house will respond if they have to wait that long in between each press. 

Yeah the slowness of the AppleTV driver is a known issue that Allonis is planning on fixing.  In the meantime I'm using the HomeAssistant integration which as you can see is much faster.

@bowlingbeeg In your video where you show the HTWebRemote interface being shown on the SmartRemote screen, is the first page where you choose which device to control also being generated by HTWebRemote? I've had a quick play with it and so far I can only get it to display different 'remotes' as tabs on one web page, and you click on the tab at the top of the page to switch between 'remotes'. Is there a button type you can use to make it jump to showing a different 'remote'? So your first page lists all the devices in a nice layout, and when you click on a button it changes to showing the page for that device. It looks like you've achieved that but I can't see how.

Andrew

andrew wrote:

@bowlingbeeg In your video where you show the HTWebRemote interface being shown on the SmartRemote screen, is the first page where you choose which device to control also being generated by HTWebRemote? I've had a quick play with it and so far I can only get it to display different 'remotes' as tabs on one web page, and you click on the tab at the top of the page to switch between 'remotes'. Is there a button type you can use to make it jump to showing a different 'remote'? So your first page lists all the devices in a nice layout, and when you click on a button it changes to showing the page for that device. It looks like you've achieved that but I can't see how.

Andrew

You have to use the "group" option to get that opening page.