You know, sometime last summer I thought Windows Home Server development had died. Maybe the world-wide recession had somehow turned off the great WHS programming brains. Lo and behold, new year, new decade, and they’re back!
If you look over the articles that have been published about add-ins over the past month, you will find updates to many existing add-ins. You will find many new add-ins being released to the wild; several within the past few weeks.
Windows Home Server add-in development is alive and well!
Today, we have another new add-in to replace an older (abandoned?) add-in, WebGuide.
Introducing Remote Wizard:
What’s it for?
With the demise of the late, lamented WebGuide (http://www.asciiexpress.com/webguide/), there’s been no easy way to remotely manage your Windows Media Center when you’re not home. Worse, even the beloved WebGuide could only manage one computer at a time. Worse still, WebGuide only worked with the original Vista version of Media Center; if you had a TV Pack system, or Windows 7, you were out of luck.Enter the Remote Wizard. What’s it do?
Remote Wizard for Windows Home Server gives you full control of all your Windows Media Center systems from one convenient web interface. Running on Windows Home Server, it provides the same convenient, secure remote access as WHS itself. And it works just fine with Vista, Vista with TV Pack, or Windows 7 – 32-bit or 64-bit.
That all sounds quite interesting, and if you would like to know what an add-in like this can do for you, I would suggest you head over to the Remote Wizard website and check out their Beta program going on NOW! The one catch? This appears to be U.S. only.
So, if you are in the U.S., check it out. If you aren’t; if you are interested in an add-in of this type; you should still drop on over and let them know you would like to feel some love also!
Please be aware that this add-in will cost you, eventually. Not for the Beta version, just for the production version. How much? To be announced…
Of course, we all know what is needed after that. An iPhone app to call your WHS to schedule your WMC recording schedule. It could happen… Really!
More info: Remote Wizard
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