"jbrave" wrote:
Several remote controls exist, like dvpremote for iPhone, but it doesn't let you use hostnames, just ip addresses, not sure if it can actually work on a wan or over the Internet, seems to be LAN only.
Next version of my app ("Remote for Roku" for iOS) will allow use of host names. You can use non-intranet IPs in some of the other remotes and that will work fine. The auto-discovery won't though, you'll need to know the IP for sure.
Unfortunately the degree of remote control that can be done that way is fairly limited - no way to restart the player or even check in what condition it is (what's playing right now?). I don't know if Roku has hardware watchdog that will restart it in case it hangs up.
