Remuco on Blackberry Pearl

Remuco is an application that lets you control your linux music player using your cellphone using either bluetooth or wifi, this is great for parties!

I’m a Rhythmbox user and I wanted to try this functionality with my Blackberry Pearl 8120, which fortunately has a wifi antenna. I followed the instructions on the Remuco’s website and everything installed like a charm on my Ubuntu Hardy, I then installed the client on the Blackberry using the OTA (over the air) method, but when I tried to connect to my Rhythmbox running on my machine through wifi, got a nice “Connection failed” message. It turned out to be that the Blackberry was using the BIS (BlackBerry Internet Service) connection instead of the wifi I had on.

I digged into the Remuco client’s Java code and found out the connection route wasn’t being specified in the StreamConnection.open() method, so I tweaked it to include “;interface=wifi”, and voila!, it worked!. Now the Blackberry knows it has to use the wifi connection when an IP is specified as a Remuco server host.

I recompiled the Remuco client and put it up, you can install it on your Blackberry pointing your browser here: http://tinyurl.com/remuco

I’ve also changed the application icon so it shows nicer on the Blackberry screen.

Enjoy!