Comments on: Winamp control with serial interface

By: kovo1533

kovo1533 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:32:03 +0000

I have some question about using midi/gameport version. I have downloaded software called RMX for controlling winamp using joystick …… I calibrated it and wanted to use for volume control…… I have added this a functoin to axis Y, but it doesn´t work much good…… I wanted the higher volume….. so i moved with joystick up…….ewerything works, volume had gone up…….but then I moved with joystick down…..but volume didn´t go down but still up…… Isn´t this any bug in program ??

By: Matthewbratt1879

Matthewbratt1879 — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:05:04 +0000

i am making a 15 button one i got all the parts from http://www.maplin.co.uk and i built it into a small metal tin, any idias how to use the buttons like arrow keys or hotkeys?

matthewbratt1879@aol.com

matthew.

By: Duarte

Duarte — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 11:22:37 +0000

Have anyone seen anything like this, but as a stand-alone application to control the PC? such as running executable files, opening shortcuts to websites, etc
Any Open Source projects around? =D
Or any ideas how this can be easily implemented?
Tnx

By: Darkain Dragoon

Darkain Dragoon — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 13:54:35 +0000

Re: This is pretty cool, but the same thing could be done with the game port, and RMX

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?postid=1404330#1404330

RM-X has supported this same 4-button interface for over a year now. I like hack-a-day posting things like this, however, its a little sad to see something that was done well over a year ago, and done multiple times before.

i would much rather see new, unique, and innovative things posted here (such as a telnet interface into a Lua session for direct command execution which can be used to remotely administrate a computer over the internet to que up .torrent files for download on a headless server)

By: pasteler0

pasteler0 — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:18:09 +0000

dusch, well done man!!!

By: dusch

dusch — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:53:43 +0000

Pretty cool, I’ve just done it and housed in a nice case with metal finish. Very simple, but it works! http://img454.imageshack.us/my.php?image=251120050030yn.jpg

By: Andy B

Andy B — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:50:14 +0000

It looks OK, but you can’t beat the one i made a while ago for styling!

http://www.andybateman.co.uk/storage/mp3remote.jpg

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:05:54 +0000

I just control winamp with my samsung i730 and a plug in called browse amp http://www.browseamp.com that allows you to control winamp by web browsers. The chick totally did you being able to control the music from your phone not to mention you can really freak out your roomates when you aren’t home by cranking up the tunes remotely.

By: Dax

Dax — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:04:26 +0000

#10, I know that lirc can ‘learn’ transmitters so I’d assume that winlirc can.
Anyone know of similar tutorials for parallel port, not serial? I only have one serial connector, and it’s part of a mouse (that I still use).

By: carpespasm

carpespasm — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:16:28 +0000

well, i just made one of these from cat5, a connector salvaged from an old serial mouse adapter, and some microbuttons from a dead vcr, once i got it going, i realized there is a schematic for a 15 button version in the help tab of the config program. still very simple and uses diodes to make a matrix

By: rexdart

rexdart — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:32:17 +0000

Hmm..about that winlirc; do you have to build their transmitter, or can the software easily be “trained” to any IR emitter?

By: matt syme

matt syme — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:20:05 +0000

yeah ive been using this for ages, its great, i have one at my comptuer, on at my bed, one at my door and one in my shed. its really convinient

By: Brian Shih

Brian Shih — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:45:30 +0000

You can also make a USB version of this with a PIC fairly easily. We enumerated ours as a game controller, but had to write host software to catch the game controller presses and convert them into winamp commands. That being said, the host software could turn them into any windows key presses so it had a lot more versatility. If you want source code (both assembly and python) you can check out our documentation here: http://students.olin.edu/2007/smcbride/bigknob/?page=home

Also, with some tweaking, the USB version should work in linux as well – i think there’s a usb library in C that’s open source for linux that you could use to capture keypresses, but I haven’t tried for myself.

By: acidrain

acidrain — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 03:43:01 +0000

Anyone know of a way to use this in linux?

By: n3ldan

n3ldan — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:39:01 +0000

winamp? people still use windows?

this doesn’t even come close to the laser/xmms combo.