And the laziest of us shall rule the world…….

Well almost.

Anyway back to the post. Some time ago my good friend Ewoudt came up with a nice use for his cellphone ,he used it as a remote control for his pc . Sounding interesting i decided i wanted to do the same cos i spend a lot of time watching stuff on my PC and basically using it as a jukebox. The only down side being that the application he used for the control between his pc and phone was a linux only application.

This it self wasn’t a problem for me until i remembered i cant install linux on my laptop and there was no way i was gona setup a vm just to watch movies and listen to music. So the googleing started for the quest to find a windows version of the application .Lo and behold there is not a single decent windows application. The ones that do work need a license and nothing open source that had progressed far enough for everyday use.

Final option develop my own app . Man that was the worst option of all. Being a .net junkie i quickly check out msdn and a good few other blogs that looks promising( C4F being the main source) .Get a ton of source code compile in C# express 2008 and try to run the app .Thats as far as it got , no matter what i did it would not find any bluetooth device in the area around me even though there were plenty. More research and i find out most of the C# Source is for the Microsoft Bluetooth stack ,and since i was running the Widcomm stack it was a no go once again. The effort to remove drivers and try and use the MS drivers were just not worth the effort as there was no guarantee it was going to work.

Ok so may be C# and .Net was not the best for this scenario i decided that i would switch to Java and see if i could get it going there. While this proved to be a bit beter than the C# path i eventually hit a dead end again with the code.Now just frustrated and getting no where i started random googles to see what i could find and kept on coming across Sony Ericson’s developer link. Nothig left to loose i looked a bit around the site .It seemed what i was trying to do this entire time was quite simple .

You see Sony Erricson being the cool guys they are made most of there phones HID’s .This simply means that almost every SE phone is a Human Interface Device. And that when used in conjunction with bluetooth can remote control a pc with its OWN BUILT IN SOFTWARE . So how cool is that , i can now do everything i wanted to do + do it with no config or install at all on any bluetooth capable pc.

Now i can finally relax and watch movies at my convenience

So enjoy and let me know if u can replicate this simpler and free at the same time

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