About

Welcome to the ORCA Remote. ORCA(Open Remote Control Application) is designed to be the new future of software remotes application.

What is ORCA?

ORCA stands for Open Remote Control Application.
ORCA is designed as an Open Source Framework to provide Remote Control Capabilities
OS Support: Android, (IOS), Windows, (Linux), (IOS and Linux will come in future)
Hardware Support: Tablets, Phones, PC‘s
Communication Support: (W)LAN, IR, (extendable by interface plugins, eg Bluetooth, Home Automatisation)
Bi-Directional Support: ORCA can transmit and receive commands (if interface is bi-directional)
Control Target: Multimedia, Home Automatisation
Open Source, Non Profit application

Skinnable: Look and feel can be adjusted to user needs
Adjustable Layout: The layout is not hardcode and be adjusted as requiered
Multi Language Support: All screen messages are stored in external language files and can be selected
Unicode and 3rd party fonts support to support APAC region
Macro Support: Actions can be performed based on rule sets (far beyond Logitech Harmony capabilities)
Multi target support within one screen. Similar to Logitech Harmony , Activities are support to control several targets from one screen
Gesture Support: Gestures are supported to control your targets
Loadable Interfaces: Target Interfaces like WOL, Telnet, Eventghost, IR , JSON will be loaded at runtime and are scripted. 3rd party developer can contribute interfaces without adjusting the ORCA application

There is a increasing demand for Remote Control Capabilites for tablets and large screen phones.
Current market solution are limited:
Requiere a web server
Supports only limited interfaces
Closed source and vendor specific
Limited layout and design capabilities
No support for macros / linked actions
Orca is designed to overcome these limitation
But: Unlimited options increases complexibity. At first step, the ORCA will target experienced IT users and integrators. Designers and wizards are planned for a second phase

ORCA is based an Kivy, a portable framework for Android, Windows, Apple and Linux
Screen design is based on XML description files for screen elements
Application logic are based on XML ruleset files
Skins can be selected by gui
Communication interfaces are script based (python) and will be loaded and executed at runtime
Communication interfaces can control multiple devices
Device setup will be handled by communication interface
Multiple communication interfaces and multiple devives can be used at the same time