For those that don't know, Amora (A mobile remote assistant) is
an application client/server. It allows you to send keyboard events
and mouse moving in your Linux desktop. You can control slides,
movies, and any other application. It can take a screenshot of the
active window on your desktop and view thumbnail on the cellphone.
Communication uses Bluetooth.
With amora you can: mouse move and select itens, open presentations
and movies, turn on and off fullscreen, pause, forward and rewind,
drag windows in your Linux desktop and more.
Highlights for 1.0 release:
Server
- Server support for multiple cellphones (tested with up to 3 cellphones)
- CLI arguments
- Debian package
- Inclusion in Mandriva Cooker repositories
- RPM spec file (should make easier to package for other RPM based
distributions)
- man page
Client
- added a stopwatch (useful to control time in presentations)
- improved configuration screen: screenshot
timeout, mouse cursor moving delta, screenshot rotation
- automatically displays keymap layout in start to control the desktop
- support for continuous keypressing (left and right arrow keys)
- SIS packaging for Nokia S60 3ed.
Introduction
You got a cellphone with bluetooth and still need to manually control
slides when making a presentation?
Don't worry anymore, Amora (A mobile remote assistant) implements
control of mouse and most of keyboard shortcuts (ESC, ENTER, SPACE,
arrow keys, etc) making easy this task. Not only that, but you can take
screenshots of the active window in your current graphic session
(i.e. see thumbnails of PC windows in your cellphone screen).
Currently, the client is implemented in Python for S60 (Nokia cellphones)
and the server is written in C programming language using Xlib and XTest
to send events for X session and POSIX socket API for I/O.
For bluetooth SDP I used BlueZ (so for while, this part of server is Linux only),
there are plans to port the server to run in other Unix architectures
(FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OSX).