Hello I am trying to work out how to set kodi up on my smart TV. My main problem lies with the TV being on the wall in another room too far away from power sources. She has sky installed and that was situated in the other room and with a HDMI lead fed under to floorboards to the other room by a professional someone or other. I am unable to feed another HDMI lead along the line.
Is there a way I could connect kodi by some other means to the TV? I am not really up on these things.
At the moment I have the kodi box in another room and I have to switch the sky lead to the kodi box to use. Also this means you have to be in the other room.
Can anyone suggest a way for me to get kodi working on the tv and be able to operate it via remote control?
I use Kodi on all of my TVs through an amazon fire stick. Most smart TVs have a USB on the back of the TV that can power the fire stick while its plugged into the HDMI so you wouldn't have to worry about power. I have a Sony bravia that will control the fire stick as long as I am on the input the fire stick is plugged into so no need for an additional remote.
To start off this is the wrong place to ask. This is a Q and A platform for programming questions and coding related questions.
To give you an answer though because I'm not a dick the best way to do it would be using a NAS. You would have two Kodi boxes but one media store.
I'm not sure which device do you use.
In my case, I installed Kodi on my Raspberry Pi(RPi) and TV and RPi are connected with HDMI. My TV is Samsung SmartTV, which supports HDMI-CEC. So, RPI can get RCU Key input from TV.
(HDMI-CEC allows devices connected to your TV through HDMI ports to communicate back and forth with your TV. )
In addition, you can customize keymaps for remotes in GUI by using the community Keymap Editor add-on.
https://kodi.wiki/view/Keymap
Check your TV supports HDMI-CEC, first.
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The Sony QX1 camera would be fantastic for astrophotography - it's a very small and lightweight camera, but has a large sensor. However, for astrophoto the camera must be able to perform a few basic functions. One of these is Bulb Mode. Out of the box the QX1 does not seem to support Bulb Mode.
Is there a chance that Bulb Mode could be used via the API? I can't seem to find it in the docs. Even if it's not an "officially supported" setting, even if it voids the warranty. Is there any hack to enable it, at all? Firmware hack? "Magic" memory locations to overwrite to enable some kind of developer mode? Anything?
Another feature required for AP is a decent level of manual control, but that appears to be somewhat supported via API. At least ISO seems tweakable that way - let me know if I'm wrong.
Are you asking about a long exposure? This camera does not support that feature. Unfortunately if the functionality is not supported by the camera there will not be a way to activate this feature through the API.
Do you know if the USB remotes work? There are two types on the other cameras e.g. A6000. First there is USB tehtering to apps like Capture One on Widnows and Mac or RCCDroid on Android. Other thing to try are wire remotes that too plug in the USB socket but use some extension pins that Sony added on their cameras.
I hope some of those work.
If I have to pick one to try I would go ot the USB tethering as it allows setting shutter speed to Bulb on other cameras e.g. A7ii. Also RCCDroid I believe had free version and simple USB cable with OTG will reveal if tethering works for QX1
PS You can do some rudimentary control from computer using gphoto2 over USB. The big drawback is that when you tether the camera it will not save files to SD card
PSS Sony indicate that QX1 is supporting "multi" mode on the USB hence simple wired remotes will work. Only problem is how to set the shutter speed to bulb and Camera Remote API does not allow that I believe.
PSS Does QX1 work without electronic lens? Other cameras require change of settings to enable shutter without lens
Is there any hardware available by which we can get more control in VR world on Android in addition to Magnet Card board button?
For example some bluetooth joystick/Remote/mouse or any other way to use other android device as Input Source.
Kindly share if somebody tried.
There are many input devices compatibile with android.
The most basic controls are traditional keyboards or game pads plugged in via an OTG cable. This is also the cheapest option, and easiest to obtain for the consumer.
There are also bluetooth pads compatibile with android.
You can also try to use Wiimotes, but the support and libraries arent really that mature, at least among those that I tried.
In the last weeks I experimented with my Raspberry Pi B and with the PiCamera. I had the idea to establish a connection between the RasPi and an Android device or (if it is easier) to a windows notebook without an access point in between, just like the GoPro camera and its App. I would like to have a live stream from the PiCamera to the other device and the possibility to start/stop recording a video or simply take a picture.
The app itself is not my problem, I wrote some simple apps before. But I didn't yet find a tutorial or description how to set up the communication and the stream.
I bought a WiFi dongle (Fritz!WLAN Stick N - by AVM) that supports WiFi direct and my phone (Samsung Galaxy S5 mini) does as well.
My first question is how to set up this stick on Raspbian - yet it is not recognises as a wifi dongle, and the second is how to achieve what I descriebed above.
Could anyone please describe what I can do?
Thanks in advance!
PS: I prefer a description for bash because I use SSH
Is it possible to build an Iphone/Ipad app (and Android app) that can do two things: stream an interface and the respective content (particularly video) to a TV and then let me use the phone itself as a remote control for this interface?
Basically the idea is, you don’t need a smart TV anymore or some kind of set-top box or other connected device, just the smart phone which you carry around all the time anyway and which is connected to your local wireless connection. Maybe a docking station with a HDMR connection to the TV, so you are not emptying your battery.
Do you know any comparable implementation or use?
If it is theoretically possible, can you anticipate any performance problems, bottlenecks and how those could be resolved?
If this it’s not possible, which links are missing, what technology would have to be developed first?
Thank you for your thoughts on this!
Jacob
The iPhone/iPad would work for this. It allows you to output to a second screen. You can stream video, audio, whatever. A cool example I saw was using the TV as the primary display and the phone as a controller for a game.
There are two ways to do it. You can use an hdmi output or a vga output. There is also a AirPlay, which will let you do it wirelessly. You would need an AirPlay capable device (like an AppleTV) for it to work though.
I've got an idea for a tool I would like to make for Google TV once honeycomb + market lands on it, but it would function worlds better if I could also turn on the TV rather than having to make the user do it themselves
My idea is simple: Schedule your favourite shows, tv turns on, activates the STB then tunes to the proper channel when the show starts.
For reference I would be devving this on a Revue, which I know has the IR blaster and such needed to send the remote signals.
Yes, you can do that and more using the Anymote Protocol. For sample code, take a look at the source of the Google TV Remote app: http://code.google.com/p/google-tv-remote/
If you can control the IR device, then turning on the TV should be a snap. Additionally, some newer TVs have an HDMI functionality that lets you turn it on using it; however, not all TVs support this. All TVs do support infrared, though.
You'd want to look for "System Standby" here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdmi#CEC
The TV would have to technically be in its "sleep" mode for the device to turn it on, similar to how PC monitors work.