{"id":4962,"date":"2013-07-06T04:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T04:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=4962"},"modified":"2013-07-06T04:54:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T04:54:35","slug":"xbmc-raspberrypi-remote-control-using-a-smart-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4962","title":{"rendered":"XBMC #RaspberryPi remote control using a smart phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asliceofraspberrypi.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/07\/xbmc-raspberry-pi-remote-control-using.html\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/xbmc311.jpg' alt='A Slice of Raspberry Pi: XBMC Raspberry Pi remote control using a smart phone' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just some quick blogs this morning as I want to get onto my Picorder wiring!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a blog post at Slice of Raspberry Pi in which you can set-up XBMC (in this case the RaspBMC flavour, but I imagine it works with the others) with a web-interface and then control it using your smart phone.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/asliceofraspberrypi.blogspot.co.uk\/2013\/07\/xbmc-raspberry-pi-remote-control-using.html\">Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some quick blogs this morning as I want to get onto my Picorder wiring! 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