Finally just finished listening to all of the podcast and wanted to also add that you can RDP into your Media Center box. RDP is disabled by default in Windows 7. You can just enable it you can RDP into your Media Center and do remote scheduling. You just can not watch any shows through RDP. You can doing a VNC setup to watch media; personally I'd rather use RDP over VNC since I am not trying to stream anything from home. I RDP to my Media Center box all the time to schedule shows from work. You also may want to enable concurrent logins if you use your Media Center box hooked up to a TV so that it doesn't log off the user account logged in on the TV. You can Google the hack to enable concurrent sessions.
This doesn't take the place as a dedicated app to allow you to do remote scheduling but it does work. I really don't mind RDPing to my Media Center and I can RDP with my phone. But it would be nice to have an app on my phone with an interface made for my phone. I also use Home Server and have my home server domain name setup in which my router port forwards RDP connections to my Media Center. This way I do not need to know my IP address, I just need to know my domain name to my Home Server. If you don't have a Home Server you can also use dynamic DNS through Media Center or through your router so that you don't need to know you IP address.
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Finally just finished listening to all of the podcast and wanted to also add that you can RDP into your Media Center box. RDP is disabled by default in Windows 7. You can just enable it you can RDP into your Media Center and do remote scheduling. You just can not watch any shows through RDP. You can doing a VNC setup to watch media; personally I'd rather use RDP over VNC since I am not trying to stream anything from home. I RDP to my Media Center box all the time to schedule shows from work. You also may want to enable concurrent logins if you use your Media Center box hooked up to a TV so that it doesn't log off the user account logged in on the TV. You can Google the hack to enable concurrent sessions.
This doesn't take the place as a dedicated app to allow you to do remote scheduling but it does work. I really don't mind RDPing to my Media Center and I can RDP with my phone. But it would be nice to have an app on my phone with an interface made for my phone. I also use Home Server and have my home server domain name setup in which my router port forwards RDP connections to my Media Center. This way I do not need to know my IP address, I just need to know my domain name to my Home Server. If you don't have a Home Server you can also use dynamic DNS through Media Center or through your router so that you don't need to know you IP address.