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Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by goostavos on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:01PM (#6368362)
Using a chrome extension was a brilliant idea, man! I don't recall the name of it, but there was another app that was along the same idea of using your phone as a remote. It was a neat idea, but you had to install and maintain a separate Java server on your computer to listen for the phone's commands. It made it far more pain that it was worth.

Do you have a write up on the tech behind it? Are you guys looking for help on adding additional sites? :)

Nice job!

Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:12PM (#6368423)
Thanks. I played with many of these apps and hated running those Java servers. I'll be making a presentation about the technology behind the app at HackNY in NYC. If you can't make it to that, I'll post the video / notes on the blog. I'm planning on open sourcing the extension so people can create their own remotes for any site out there. Also, "you guys" is just me!
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by wmeredith on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:17PM (#6368900)
I HIGHLY recommend making the Mote.io in your header clickable. I had to hunt around the page to figure out how to get to your actual app's web page. Super annoying.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:25PM (#6368956)
That's great advice. Fixed, thank you.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by jlebron2 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:08PM (#6368043)
Is it me or is the design really distracting? I'm using Firefox and I see a blue background with gray text and it's really hard to read. I suspect it might be because I'm using an older version of Firefox, but if this is it then you should look into it.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:13PM (#6368074)
Sorry about that. Just checked it out. It's probably the older version of FF as it works on mine, but I will look into it. Thanks.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by jlebron2 on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:17PM (#6368093)
No problem, I figured that would be it. Just wanted to give you a heads up.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by glennos on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @06:25PM (#6370549)
When I saw this my mind went straight to 'can I use this as a raspberry pi audio only music player?'. Bought it already, but if you're interested in moving the whole ui into the app, I think you'll have a an even bigger swell of interest.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by mrhazel on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:24PM (#6368949)
Maybe I'm missing something, but are there any options for the app? I'd like to disable the haptic feedback.

EDIT: Your welcome email could use a better sender name. My spam filter caught it. Hello is a very good sender name.

Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by alxbrun on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:06PM (#6368394)
Nice app! Have you considered adding a voice command mode, so that when I'm out of reach of my phone or too lazy to read/touch the phone screen, I can still remote-control websites?
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:14PM (#6368441)
YES! I really want this personally. It would be really cool to do this with Google Glass.

"Mote.io, Pandora 'The rolling stones'" or "Mote.io, play Hype Machine popular page."

Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by theyCallMeSwift on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @01:15PM (#6368450)
"iPhone, make me a sandwich".

But, seriously, voice commands could be sweet and done through the chrome extension + mic.

Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by thebiglebrewski on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:49AM (#6367896)
I'm in full support of this idea. Pretty sick of the limitations Chromecast is putting on this concept.

Is there any easy way to develop our own remotes?

Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:50AM (#6367907)
Thanks. The Chrome extension will be open source in the future so developers will be able to write remotes for any website.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by gingerlime on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @03:23PM (#6369352)
Can you use this to control things outside the browser? i.e. mpg123 command-line player etc? A standalone listener/API could be great for plugging this into, well... anything.

Nice idea!

Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by thebiglebrewski on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:52AM (#6367920)
Amazing! Looking forward to it.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by theyCallMeSwift on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:32PM (#6368177)
This is awesome. Glad there's an iphone version now so I can actually put it to use. Great work!
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @12:49PM (#6368286)
The number one feature request from the Android release was an iPhone version.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by joshdance on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:36AM (#6367832)
Bought it.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @11:50AM (#6367910)
Thanks <3
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by stupidideas on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:52PM (#6369142)
purchased. love it.
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by tomatohs on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @03:55PM (#6369583)
thank you
Re:Show HN: Control websites like Pandora, SoundCloud, and V... by jbcima- on Wednesday September 11, 2013 @02:33PM (#6369007)
omg lol i can control my cat piki with this. oh wait she died.