Remote control your Vortexbox

When you just control your vortexbox from your computer in my mind it isn't necessary to have such a box, because you can use a media player installed on the computer instead. You can connect a IR receiver to the VB and control it somehow with a remote. But I think this is a very outdated method.

I use a 7" Android Tablet instead. There are several apps available for controlling the Squeezebox Server. I've installed the 2 most common ones:

•  The officially Logitech Squeezebox Controller (free)
•  Squeezebox Commander (a few Euro in the market)

The Tablet is a very cheap one from Archos. I already have it for nearly one year and it still works great.

I also have an Android mobile phone, which I also use sometimes to control SB. But only when the tablet is too far away and I'm too lazy to get it.  :-)