Nowadays multimedia and mp3 players such as iPod have invaded a large part of the market. These systems promote a different model to access media: Podcasting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting).

In this model, contents are held on a server and are transferred towards the device through an explicit download or by means of a schedule defined by the user (push model).

One interesting application of podcasting is to provide users a remote recording service. Such a service will record digital content distributed via DVB based on the schedule provided by each user. Once the content is ready it is published using a podcast feed and user device will download the recording inside it's local storage.

Faucet PVR (http://www.vcast.it/faucetpvr/) is a web-based application that implements such kind of application. It allows a subscribed user to schedule the recording of one or more channels (even at the same time) and supports both Digital Terrestrial and Satellite channels. Recordings are stored in the server as long as the user downloads it using a podcatcher (for example iTunes).

The aim of this project is to provide an ubiquitous access to the service offered by Faucet by developing a mobile application that can be used to create and manage the recordings.