On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Jim Porter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Remote Control > -------------- > > In my experience using media centers, it can be pretty convenient to > control the media center via a touchscreen-based remote (read: an app on > your phone/tablet). I believe we already have a basic remote like this, > mainly for navigating webpages, but we should expand this to allow > controlling playback, navigating through lists of content, etc. We could > easily make this cross-platform by just hosting a webpage from the TV > that other devices on the LAN can connect to. FlyWeb would make > discovery even easier. > This is what we are doing and almost done. :-) > > It would also make sense to provide something like a JSON API so that > people could write their own remote control apps, and do other creative > things. However, that's probably not necessary in the short term. > > This is an good idea. We are addressing some security concerns now, so if we want to extend this model and provide a JSON API, security is the top issue. -- Evelyn Hung Front-end Engineering Lead, Firefox OS Devices Mozilla Corporation
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