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).

Amora 1.0 Released

Check downloads section and wiki articles explaining how to install.

Attention: Amora client needs to be installed in the same drive where you installed Python for S60, i.e. you must install it in drive 'E' if you had installed Python in drive 'E'.

Credits

Coding:

• Adenilson Cavalcanti da Silva (cellphone client, design, BlueZ, Xlib, Imlib, testing, webpage, even the kitchensink)

• Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. (logging functions, buildsystem, Mandriva package)

• Thiago Marcos Santos (buildsystem, server pluggable main loop)

• Tomaz Noleto (Debian package, server patches)

Amora server benefited directly or indirectly from code of following projects: BlueZ (sdptool), Erich Kitzmuller a.k.a. ammoQ (xjoypad), Albert Huang (author of An introduction to Bluetooth Programming). Makoto Sugano contributed a patch to enable continuous keypressing.

Amora client was only possible thanks to the great tutorials written by Jurgen Scheible, the better place to start learning Python for S60. link

Graphic design

• Wilson Prata (Wallpaper, GUI menu structure, overall interface tips)

• Alexis Younes a.k.a. Ayo73 (Frozen-Bubble cool penguin) link

• Carlos Rosas (GUI menu structure, overall interface tips)

• Adenilson Cavalcanti (horrible copying and pasting...)

Sponsor

Special thanks to INdT (Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia) that allowed me to apply some time working on this project.

Screenshots

You can see a screenshot of cellphone client (running in 3 cellphones with different screen resolutions (N95, N5500, E61) all connected at same time controlling 1 computer. Pay attention to the new stopwatch (added in Amora 1.0) and image rotated in N95 (option available in 'Configuration' menu option)

And here some screenshots of client version 0.8 (tested only in N93 and E61):

Wallpaper for not connected status:

Screenshot capture in action: you can control and see any active window in Linux desktop: