iPhone Atlas has posted an article about their favorite remote/streaming App for iTunes and the iPod Touch. They have reviewed many of these types of programs and have come to a verdict on which application they think is the best. Remote Buddy was their choice and includes streaming music, movies and other content to the iPhone or the iPod Touch.
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If you have the money, in this case $1,000 dollars and want a simple way to control most audio functions of your house all at the touch of you finger, SpeakerCraft has released a solution for you. For a $1,000 suggested retail price you can pick up an ERS 1.0 component that you plug into your home WI-Fi router via Ethernet cable. This will allow your iPod Touch or iPhone to control many aspects of your home life.
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Home Automation specialists Lagotek had been eyeing up the iPod Touch and iPhone as potential touchscreen remote controls, but demanding users Jailbreak their phones to get it working with custom software just wasn’t an option. Rather than grumble, however, they enlisted the help of Ikanos Consulting to bring Go Gadgets to market: it’s a web-app that makes your Apple PMP compatible with the Microsoft Vista Sideshow gadget Lagotek use to interface with your smart-home.
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Using your iPod Touch as a home automation control is no unfamiliar topic here at Apple-Touch, but if you’ve already invested in a system like Mainlobby by Cinemar then you’ll soon be able to use your PMP as a whole-house media and environmental remote thanks to the software’s built-in web server.
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As you might have guessed, we’re big fans here at Apple-Touch of using Cupertino’s slinkiest iPod as a multi-function remote control. Well, UK-based Linux programmer killswtch seems to have similar ambitions for his own Touch, seeing it as the centrepiece of a home automation system that encompasses distributed media, lighting, CCTV security and occupancy tracking.
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