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    Default Boxee Box: Control remotely?

    I'm not a boxee user today, but I think the Boxee Box might be the solution I've been waiting for. I've read about it and know that it will be great for most of what I want to use it for. BUT, there is one question that I've not found an answer to.

    Will the Boxee Box be able to be remotely controlled from another PC / Mac? I want to be able to select music from another room. My distributed audio system's head end is in one room and currently I have a PC plugged into it that I access via Remote Desktop to control. Does anyone know if something like this will be possible with the Boxee Box?

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTC-8 View Post
    I'm not a boxee user today, but I think the Boxee Box might be the solution I've been waiting for. I've read about it and know that it will be great for most of what I want to use it for. BUT, there is one question that I've not found an answer to.

    Will the Boxee Box be able to be remotely controlled from another PC / Mac? I want to be able to select music from another room. My distributed audio system's head end is in one room and currently I have a PC plugged into it that I access via Remote Desktop to control. Does anyone know if something like this will be possible with the Boxee Box?

    Thanks
    If I understand you correctly -- you can install the Boxee desktop app on your PC and access the "Shared" music files in the other room over your network

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    check this out... Was just reposted today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTC-8 View Post
    I'm not a boxee user today, but I think the Boxee Box might be the solution I've been waiting for. I've read about it and know that it will be great for most of what I want to use it for. BUT, there is one question that I've not found an answer to.

    Will the Boxee Box be able to be remotely controlled from another PC / Mac? I want to be able to select music from another room. My distributed audio system's head end is in one room and currently I have a PC plugged into it that I access via Remote Desktop to control. Does anyone know if something like this will be possible with the Boxee Box?

    Thanks
    Someone asked that the other day and here's the answers I gave:
    http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=17907&page=2
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    Quote Originally Posted by judgeschambers View Post
    Someone asked that the other day and here's the answers I gave ...
    This is not the first time I see this reply on the forums with a link that goes to a post that in fact has absolutely nothing to do with the question at hand. Honest mistake or starved for attention?

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    I have a feature request on that just here:

    http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=20980

    Go give the thread some lurve.

    - Jonas

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    Now that the Boxee Box is released, anyone out there able to access it's menus remotely? I want to be able to select Pandora music from my Kitchen laptop and the Boxee Box will be plugged into the distributed audio in another room (dedicated Media Room) But since I'm not in the Media Room with the screen on, I need to be able to control the Boxee BOX through the network. I know that I could have done this with a regular computer running Boxee. But Boxee BOX is not a regular computer.

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