Remuco with Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric - Totem Plugin incompatible & VLC remote not working

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What is your environment?
* OS: Ubuntu 11.10 32bit
* Remuco version: 0.9.5
* Client device: Android 2.3.7 on ZTE Blade
* Player: Totem & VLC

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Installed Remuco from repositories, player adapters for totem & vlc
2. Starting Totem -> Remuco Plugin not shown in Plugin List
3. Starting VLC (D-Bus activated) and remuco-vlc, connection not possible

What is the expected behavior? What happens instead?

While Remuco worked fine with Ubuntu Jaunty / Linux Mint and Totem,
I have now upgraded to 11.10 (clean install) and got remuco from the ubuntu 
repositories.

As the remuco adapter did not show up in Totem's plugin list, I went to 
/usr/lib/totem/plugins/remuco, looked at the files and compared them to the 
other plugins (eg. youtube which is also a python plugin).
Turns out, there have been quite some changes to totem plugins. 
For the remuco plugin to get recognized I had to change the first line from 
[Totem Plugin] to [Plugin] and rename it from remotem.totem-plugin to 
remotem.plugin. 
So now Totem showed it as available in the plugin list, 
but when I tried to acivate it, it showed an error sign (no output). 
Instead, here the output when launching totem on console:

##############################################
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: 
g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed
  import gobject._gobject
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/totem/plugins/remuco/remotem.py", line 31, in <module>
    import totem
ImportError: No module named totem
##############################################

It seems to me, that totem changed quite a bit on Oneiric? 
Anyway, so I tried remuco-vlc instead, after activating D-Bus Interface in 
VLC's settings. 
But that doesnt work either, when I try to connect through wifi, nothing 
happens, the log shows not more as:

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~$ tail -f /home/user/.cache/remuco/vlc.log
2011-11-11 21:05:00,855 [   INFO] [  config.py  218] remuco version: 0.9.5
2011-11-11 21:05:00,856 [   INFO] [   files.py   73] file browser root dirs: 
{'Username': '/home/user'} 
2011-11-11 21:05:00,875 [   INFO] [ manager.py  251] start dbus observer
2011-11-11 21:05:00,883 [   INFO] [ manager.py  282] start main loop
##############################################

Additional information:
I did not change the remuco config, 
so yes, wlan is enabled and I have tried the right port. 

So now remuco is one more thing thats actually working worse (or not at all) as 
prior to the upgrade to Oneiric... Sigh
Going back to a fresh installation of Jaunty would make everything much easier 
I guess. 

Thank you anyway for making this great remote for our mobiles, that used to 
work prior to 11.10!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tobias.d...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2011 at 10:47

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Similar issues with remuco-rhythmbox in oneiric.

Changing name and line 1 of remuco.rb-plugin then allows plugin to be displayed.

Enabling plugin then causes error:

/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gobject/constants.py:24: Warning: 
g_boxed_type_register_static: assertion `g_type_from_name (name) == 0' failed  
import gobject._gobject
Traceback (most recent call last):  
    File "/usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/remuco/remythm.py", line 30, in <module>
        import rb, rhythmdb
ImportError: No module named rhythmdb

(rhythmbox:20310): libpeas-WARNING **: Error loading plugin 'remythm'

Original comment by ndpeg...@gmail.com on 13 Dec 2011 at 9:09

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Same here on Ubuntu 11.10.

Original comment by Accurse...@gmail.com on 3 Jan 2012 at 8:43

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The Totem issue seems to be the same as in issue 163.

Original comment by obensonne@googlemail.com on 4 Jan 2012 at 8:27

• Changed state: Accepted