Zune to Control Computer

[ice_snow]

I was thinking the other day that it would be great if we could have an app that would allow the Zune to control the Computer (Like a Media Center Remote) using it's WiFi. However upon reading some of the other forums I found that the WiFi will only sync with another Zune or the Zune Software.

So here is what I'm asking about:

To create a Zune emulator on the Computer that will act like another Zune or the Zune software so that another Zune could be able to interact and control with it. Than add in some multimedia capabilities to it (Music, Movies).

Please let me know if I am off my rocker here, but I think that it would be a great idea. And I would have no clue on how to program such a thing (I'm just starting to learn C#). Or this might have to be something that Microsoft would have to look into.

[God]

If you managed to write a program to interface with the Zune, first you would need specific hardware to have enough access to the device, even then the only way to interface between them is by sending media (pics, music), which you could theoretically do. So essentially you'd have to have specific pictures on your device, like one for play one for pause, and send the images (which is slow) to the Fake Zune. Doing that or something similar is possible but it would potentially require a specific wifi adaptor, perhaps linux, sniffing out the exact protocol and a lot of other work. This assumes MS hasn't done any protection against spoofing in terms of p2p Zune wifi connections, which they might have. If they have, it may or may not be easily breakable.