Niall has details of his new component for his Big Screen EPG application called “by Remote” which is a 2” remote EPG application similar to Webguide. Before you  get to excited this is only for EPG data imported via Big Screen EPG but its still a great tool for remote scheduling recordings. Now how about a Webguide replacement app Niall?

Full details on Niall’s blog

‘Big Screen EPG – by Remote’ (codename) is designed to target both 2 ‘ and 1 “ clients – by providing a Silverlight 2 client for the desktop (which is hence usable on most versions of Windows and Mac o/s) – an XHTML expierience (Mobile site) with reduced functionality – as well as an iPhone optimized HTML site. 
The ‘server’ product is currently deployed as a single .exe file (only 400k in size) – which contains it’s own inbuilt Web Server (so no need to install IIS or Casini) – and all required content (such as the Silverlight .xap) and host pages/images are delivered right out of this single .exe as well (and are embedded as resources).  In a simple configuration – users can then expose the required ports via their firewall – so this client can be accessed from remote locations (over the internet) – or via the local network.

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