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PS3 remote play on Android

Hello all,
i've searched around but couldn't find a definitive answer...
Sony recently released their new android phone called Aido, and it has a remoteplay feature to control PS3(not sure if its via blue tooth or wifi), does that mean that feature can be ported to other android powered devices???
from my understanding that should work, because PS3 alowes for blutooth remotes, so its just a matter of creating an appropriate app for android, correct?

i think its only matter of finding the app but i would like to know how 2

I couldn't find any apps for this. I would LOVE to be able to use it too. Sony Ericsson said there will be DNLA compatibility with the X10 soon, much like their Aido.
PS3 Media Server would be PERFECT as well on the Android. It encodes ANY video file on the fly and works perfectly. I stream BluRays wirelessly across my home with no effort at all.
Here's to hoping!

The handset was the Aino, it's not 'recently released' (it reached the market October of last year and is already all but discontinued) and it's not Android.

What app did you use for the phone?

[Q] Remote Control Xoom with Another Android Device

Is it possible to remote control the Xoom with another Android device like a Desire or similar?
Rather than buying a bluetooth keyboard/mouse or something - I wanted to be able to hook it up to the TV and then remote control it to change Music/TV shows/movies etc.
Thanks

I have just bought my xoom yesterday and was wondering if this was possible. A google took me to your post.
I assumed this would be simple as they are both android play, and there are many android apps for controlling vlc, xbmc etc. so why not the xoom, seen a it does have a hdmi out

Vnc server on xoom then vnc viewer on phone posted a topic about this works like a charm but it can get laggy
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I did see that there is a vnc server. That i could install on the xoom but I don't want a full remote destop, just media controls. Is there even an application for this?

cesarcerros31 said:
Vnc server on xoom then vnc viewer on phone posted a topic about this works like a charm but it can get laggy
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which VNC app was that - and also do you need to be rooted? the couple I glanced at said *ROOT*

I was actually thinking of this last night for a BT mouse (using my evo as a BT mouse on the xoom)

I am also looking for this.
My scenario is this:
I recently bought a cheap headrest holder so that the Xoom can be used as a backseat entertainment center, but it would of course be extra cool if I could use my rooted Desire Z/G2 as a remote from the frontseat to start/stop movies etc, maybe via Bluetooth or something.
~Christopher

grenness said:
I am also looking for this.
My scenario is this:
I recently bought a cheap headrest holder so that the Xoom can be used as a backseat entertainment center, but it would of course be extra cool if I could use my rooted Desire Z/G2 as a remote from the frontseat to start/stop movies etc, maybe via Bluetooth or something.
~Christopher
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that sounds awesome, i cant believe there isn't much out for this. Especially as the xoom has a hdmi out (which works flawlessly btw)

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Hey, I've been searching for something similar. We just ditched cable and are using my Transformer as a media center. Would be great to use my DX as a remote to switch YouTube videos, etc. Anything out there? Still looking.

Wiimote
Just a thought. Wiimote Controller gives you a free down and dirty remote control. Not nearly as nice as a Bluetooth keyboard but its extremely cheap and cool for playing games on the big screen as well as controlling YouTube/leanback

There is an app that you can control your xoom with android phone.
DroidMote Server / Client in the android market.

Check the market for an application named Tablet Remote.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tournesol.tabletremote
this is exactly what you need.

I've been pondering something along these lines. Only I would use the new wifiDirect API. Only downside is both client and server would have to be wifiDirect capable.

bigrushdog said:
I've been pondering something along these lines. Only I would use the new wifiDirect API. Only downside is both client and server would have to be wifiDirect capable.
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Awesome idea. i´m searching for something like that since i have a xoom (and a lg optimus black, also wifiDirect compatible).
why not integrate a fallback to vnc if no wifiDirekt device? direct connection over vnc is simple if one device tethers to the other.

zulu99 said:
There is an app that you can control your xoom with android phone.
DroidMote Server / Client in the android market.
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ypsmav said:
Check the market for an application named Tablet Remote.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tournesol.tabletremote
this is exactly what you need.
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There is a new entrant you can try too, it is called LANmote
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=lanmote

Tablet Remote
is a no-frills option that worked to control my Xoom from my Archos 32.

[Q]

Hi,
I want to set up a whole house media center, I have a xbmc server running in my house and a windows 7 pc which I can stream from also.
I have seen applications for andriod like 2player and skifta which allow me to stream music from these devices and it offers the ability to stream to other devices.
Can anyone advise me how I could set up a second android phone as a receiver. Since android phones are now so cheap I think it would be quite nice to have multiple android devices to act as receivers around my home.
I would aim to start a application like 2player on my own personal phone, choose my pc or xbmc server as source and then choose the music to play on one of the android phone.
Can anyone advise how to set this up as I don't know how to get the android phones to listen for streams.or even any alternative suggestions?
thanks in advance,
Dec

Hi guys,
Just to update this post last night I spent a bit of time researching this.
I found another app called "bubble upnp" which works as a dlna dmr.
I can see it all starting to come together now. I was able to stream from my xbmc server to another android phone running bubble upnp and using 2player on my own phone as the control point.
I am happy with this but I'm not sure if these are the best app's for this?
Also I think there maybe a small issue with power usage. I don't want to leave WiFi running on the end devices all the time. And or the dlna dmr app if possible.
I think sms gps can remotely turn on WiFi aswell as gps so this maybe a simple work around.
But not sure how to launch an app remotely on android phone.
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[Q] Nvidia GRID, and Playing on TV w/o HDMI cable.

Currently, for the Project Shield to play PC games you have to be on the same WIFI network as your own PC (to reduce latency, it makes sense)
However, with Nvidia's GRID service, does anyone know if that will enable us to play PC games in just about any wifi area? (assuming we are a member of the GRID service, whose details I am still a bit iffy on) I am having trouble finding a news about this.
Also, in the few demo videos I have seen, Nvidia has shown that the Shield can stream PC games through your HDTV, but it has been hooked up via HDMI. I believe they said eventually it would be possible to do it wirelessly (which I hope is true, since having an HDMI cable connected at all times would be a bit...wonky). So PC -> Shield -> HDTV, without the use of an HDMI cable... - Can anyone confirm if this is true?
Thanks!

dcchambers said:
Currently, for the Project Shield to play PC games you have to be on the same WIFI network as your own PC (to reduce latency, it makes sense)
However, with Nvidia's GRID service, does anyone know if that will enable us to play PC games in just about any wifi area? (assuming we are a member of the GRID service, whose details I am still a bit iffy on) I am having trouble finding a news about this.
Also, in the few demo videos I have seen, Nvidia has shown that the Shield can stream PC games through your HDTV, but it has been hooked up via HDMI. I believe they said eventually it would be possible to do it wirelessly (which I hope is true, since having an HDMI cable connected at all times would be a bit...wonky). So PC -> Shield -> HDTV, without the use of an HDMI cable... - Can anyone confirm if this is true?
Thanks!
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What I want to know, is if we can use root access to set up a VPN or possibly trick the shield into streaming without being on the same wifi network. My home network has a latency of 8MS to google, my work network has around 20MS. Which to me would be fine for this sort of thing latency wise.

PR0XIDIAN said:
What I want to know, is if we can use root access to set up a VPN or possibly trick the shield into streaming without being on the same wifi network. My home network has a latency of 8MS to google, my work network has around 20MS. Which to me would be fine for this sort of thing latency wise.
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The real question will be about uplink bandwidth. Google Fiber users would have *no* issue. Most of us have restrictive uplinks, where our providers throttle the upload speed. Because the vast majority of data would be going from your PC to the internet and down to your client, that's where you need a fat pipe. You should measure that pipe speed to see if it seems reasonable to get working first.

agrabren said:
The real question will be about uplink bandwidth. Google Fiber users would have *no* issue. Most of us have restrictive uplinks, where our providers throttle the upload speed. Because the vast majority of data would be going from your PC to the internet and down to your client, that's where you need a fat pipe. You should measure that pipe speed to see if it seems reasonable to get working first.
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I've got a REALLY fat pipe. Upload is 60mbps download is 170mbps. Ping to google is usually around 8-12.

PR0XIDIAN said:
I've got a REALLY fat pipe. Upload is 60mbps download is 170mbps. Ping to google is usually around 8-12.
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That comment borders on the obscene.
I don't actually know what the uplink requirements are. I'm not part of the network ops team, nor streaming services.

As to the actual thread, I'm 100% sure that grid will be coming to shield. On the grid website it says "Any-device gaming: High-quality, low-latency, multi device gaming on any PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone or TV. " The shield is essentially a small tablet. Running android. If they put it on smartphones and tablet and not the shield they would be pretty stupid. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html

Grid is a bit different than streaming from your PC to anywhere. But I don't currently know the bandwidth requirements.
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PR0XIDIAN said:
As to the actual thread, I'm 100% sure that grid will be coming to shield. On the grid website it says "Any-device gaming: High-quality, low-latency, multi device gaming on any PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone or TV. " The shield is essentially a small tablet. Running android. If they put it on smartphones and tablet and not the shield they would be pretty stupid. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming.html
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shield will run any android app so you could easily sideload it or on a rooted device spoof your device idea to the play store to download it from there.
If they release it on android there would be no way to prevent the shield access.

Shield like streaming except to PC?

I've had such a positive experience with shield streaming even remotely it has renewed my interest in streaming to multiple platforms.
Has any software come out to low latency stream one PC to another PC? I'd love to be able to use relatively cheap laptops which have massive battery life and use my home computer to do all the computing like with the shield.
Anyone have any experience with trying this?

HobsonA said:
I've had such a positive experience with shield streaming even remotely it has renewed my interest in streaming to multiple platforms.
Has any software come out to low latency stream one PC to another PC? I'd love to be able to use relatively cheap laptops which have massive battery life and use my home computer to do all the computing like with the shield.
Anyone have any experience with trying this?
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The best you're probably going to get is using Splashtop. I've used it to play games that were on my desktop, but had problems with a couple occasionally.

Limelight
These guys have worked on porting the the protocol and tech that the shield uses (Gamestream) to other android devices: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2505510
They are currently working on porting it to PC. There is a pre-alpha build of the program in the thread but you should note that the program is in its very early stages.

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Splashtop 2 is the best I've used, well worth the sub, especially if you own multiple machines.
One thing i have noticed since I started using the shield is that splash-top now streams games just fine to any of my devices in true full screen, it used to tell me full screen was incompatible with splash top but ever since i started streaming with the shield it works just fine. It must be something related to the shield/geforce experience streaming software that tricks the slashtop into working in fullscreen.
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very interesting, giving this a try now.

Hm if I want to use splashtop I'll have to re-setup vpn again so I don't have to pay that remote cost. I wonder if someone ever wrote a program like the shield proxy to forward just the stuff used by splashtop to my PC to avoid slow VPN.
Let me know how that kainy.com works out seems a bit sketchy to me lol

HobsonA said:
Hm if I want to use splashtop I'll have to re-setup vpn again so I don't have to pay that remote cost. I wonder if someone ever wrote a program like the shield proxy to forward just the stuff used by splashtop to my PC to avoid slow VPN.
Let me know how that kainy.com works out seems a bit sketchy to me lol
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You can also use Limelight for remote streaming. It works with Shield Proxy just the same as the real streaming software on the Shield itself. Just run the Windows binary on the machine that you'll be streaming from, setup the port forwarding, and you're set. Whenever you connect remotely, specify the external IP address of your router.

cgutman said:
You can also use Limelight for remote streaming. It works with Shield Proxy just the same as the real streaming software on the Shield itself. Just run the Windows binary on the machine that you'll be streaming from, setup the port forwarding, and you're set. Whenever you connect remotely, specify the external IP address of your router.
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Well my shield works fine what I'm trying to do now is do shield quality streaming to another PC. I have this very powerful desktop and a bunch of fairly weak laptops would love to stream to a laptop to use my desktop quality gaming anywhere for those games which need a keyboard and mouse and cant do on shield.

HobsonA said:
Well my shield works fine what I'm trying to do now is do shield quality streaming to another PC. I have this very powerful desktop and a bunch of fairly weak laptops would love to stream to a laptop to use my desktop quality gaming anywhere for those games which need a keyboard and mouse and cant do on shield.
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Yep, there's a PC port of Limelight that uses the same technology as the Shield. There's more info in the Limelight thread.
https://github.com/limelight-stream/limelight-pc/releases

cgutman said:
Yep, there's a PC port of Limelight that uses the same technology as the Shield. There's more info in the Limelight thread.
https://github.com/limelight-stream/limelight-pc/releases
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Well that's worth a look it seems people have got streaming to work to their Rasberry Pi and here i was worried about using a very low powered high battery life laptop.