Quoting hiandyp:

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Can the LoadDVD plugin work on a smart phone?  I'm currently using it on my computer and works great, just wondering if it will work on a smart phone via the Iphone/Ipad app.  I'm using LoadDVD to play movies from the RS232 connection on my changer and also play movies from the hard drive.

thanks.

Thanks for your question. Not at the moment, but there is a long-standing request from me to Ken for a mobile plugin toolkit.

Alternatively, if you can find a way to send a simple text string to an IP address, you can send LoadDVD a message to play anything or to do anything, using the Automation feature.

I was considering writing my own android app when I discovered remote terminal apps. Now I just run DVD Profiler on my PC from my Xoom tablet. Works a treat as our British cousins would say ... 

(BTW updated CX777ES code is in progress - embedded code should be faster, and CX7000ES Blu-Ray changer will be added at the same time)

(Edited to correct some technical mistakes)

You are welcome. That is worth more to me than the monetary aspects.

If I had a toolkit on the mobile app, I could write a mobile plugin that talks to my PC plugin.

By "Automation" perhaps you have missed the latest announcements regarding LoadDVD. Take a look at the thread. Then take a look at my a/v Automation User Guide.

LoadDVD is now part of a family of powerful, but cheap Home Automation tools that also include a/v DashBoard and a/v Engine for Windows Home Server. Since LoadDVD works inside DVD Profiler, you can have buttons in Profiler that can do anything the automation system can do - it can talk to you, turn lights on/off, control changers or anything else that runs from IR signals. There is an architecture that I came up with that sends commands around the network between components. Using the default port of 4444, you could make the PC where a/vEngine or a/vDashBoard was running talk to you by sending this command to "[SAY] Hello hiandyp - what's up?" 192.168.1.125 4444, where x and y are the relevant portions of the IP address of the PC in your network. (LoadDVD only servers as an Automation Server to the local copy of DVD Profiler - not to the network. You need a/v DashBoard or a/v Engine as a server for the runAction command, sorry. I think I will change that for LoadDVD Pro)

Other examples:
To play a file, send "[PLY]\\servername\mymovies\star wars.avi"

To select DVD#7, track 0, chapter 0 from the CX777ES, send "[DEV] CX777ES1 [PRG] CX777ES [ARG] COM1 36 7 0 0 1"

This is all part of the current releases of LoadDVD and LoadDVD Pro. Loads of fun ahead!

There is a little test program in the Plugins\LoadDVD folder, runAction.exe, that you can try.  Just type runaction "command" 192.168.1x.y 4444 such as the example I gave you previously. LoadDVD will also run action commands from the clipboard or from the Location or Notes fields of a Profile, or from a MyTools button. Oh yeah!

I think the a/v Engine User Guide shows how to use VLC Player as a network av streamer, so you can send a command from one machine to another and cause that file to be streamed back to you.