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http://sw1tch.com/post/60929341147/mote-io-is-now-available-for-iphone-and-android

by tomatohs • 13 years ago

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joshdance• 13 years ago

Bought it.

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

Thanks <3

thebiglebrewski2• 13 years ago

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?

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

Thanks. The Chrome extension will be open source in the future so developers will be able to write remotes for any website.

thebiglebrewski2• 13 years ago

Amazing! Looking forward to it.

gingerlime• 13 years ago

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!

jlebron22• 13 years ago

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.

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

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.

jlebron22• 13 years ago

No problem, I figured that would be it. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

theyCallMeSwift2• 13 years ago

This is awesome. Glad there's an iphone version now so I can actually put it to use. Great work!

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

The number one feature request from the Android release was an iPhone version.

goostavos• 13 years ago

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!

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

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!

alxbrun• 13 years ago

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?

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

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."

theyCallMeSwift2• 13 years ago

"iPhone, make me a sandwich".

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

wmeredith• 13 years ago

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.

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

That's great advice. Fixed, thank you.

mrhazel• 13 years ago

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.

jbcima-• 13 years ago

omg lol i can control my cat piki with this. oh wait she died.

stupidideas• 13 years ago

purchased. love it.

tomatohs8• 13 years ago

thank you

glennos• 13 years ago

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.

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