Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

That's not possible. You can start the remote PC with WakeOnLan, but XBMC needs to be autostarted or you have to start it on your own.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

No... For the N900 I don't publish it through the store as I think that the regular package manager is better than the store. However, I didn't update the N900 version this time... The latest version available for the N900 for now is 1.0.

As I don't really use my N900 any more, I lost the motivation a bit there. Let me see if I can find the motivation to adapt the new features to the N900 UI. It would be interesting to know how many of you guys still use it on the N900. Could all of you please vote in this poll to give me an impression how the distribution is?
http://poll.pollcode.com/it27

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hmm... Don't really get what you mean. Could you provide an example please?

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Well the way you're doing this.
How is that tag looking like (nfc sticker info) ?

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Ah ok... what I do is to write an NDEF URI record containing the following URI: xbmc://hostip:port/hostname/macaddress. For example something like this:

xbmc://192.168.0.5:8080/My XBMC/123ab456cd78

Then I register Xbmcremote as the application to handle urls of type xbmc://

This is however not the recommended way to do it. It doesn't work on Symbian for example because there is already a handler registered for all urls.
The correct way would be to define a own NDEF record type (google for "NDEF specification") and then register your application as the handler for that NDEF record type. That would work on all platforms. Here's the doc with examples: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility/q...ldmanager.html

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Awesome. I'll check it out now. Thanks a lot!

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

yes.

I have a list of folders which are collections. let's say they're called folder1, folder2, folder3

when browsing music as files, I don't see folder1, folder2, folder3 in a list, as I would expect, but instead I see 3 'albums'.

In JSON speak, the 'label:' field is shown, not the actual directory name.

I've been on IRC/#xbmc, and it seems you have to call Files.GetDirectory with the media: "files" parameter to get the label filled with the filename instead of the album name.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Ok... Got it reproduced now... Thing is, if I use "files" instead of the appropriate media type, I don't get any thumbnails any more and the files are shown by their filename including filename extension without regarding tag information. I don't think I want to sacrifice this. In my opinion XBMC should be changed to show the contents exactly like the UI does when the mediatype is used.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I have no idea how this works but there is VideoLibrary.Clean listed with v4 Eden, Is this what you need ?

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...oLibrary.Clean

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

How did I miss that one? Thanks!

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

You could also just take the directory name from the end of the path, in case of directories. I mean, in file mode, what's the use of assigning an album name to a directory when there's already library mode to do that?

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Sounds reasonable. I'll do that.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hi there, I've looked into this with Firebug:

For music clean:
The method called is
http://ip:8080/jsonrpc?SendRemoteKey
with the following parameters:
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "AudioLibrary.Clean", "id": 1}
and here's the response:
{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"OK"}

For video clean:
{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "VideoLibrary.Clean", "id": 1}
Response:
{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","result":"OK"}

Hope this helps ;)

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Yes... Kozzi told me about this on the last page too and it's already implemented here now.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hi,

I've also updated the N900 version to 1.1. It should appear in the extras-devel repository soon. The changelog is mostly the same as for the N9 version:
* Added feature to download media from xbmc to the device
* Enabled keyboard to send the keys to xbmc when in keypad page
* Added options for call notification and ignore article for sorting
* Added item details dialog for currently played item
* Reworked some UI parts

Have fun!

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

This latest update also works with the current RC2 build of RaspBMC, which is a XBMC distro customised for the Raspberry Pi.

Cracking, thanks

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Ah right... The XBMC guys made a small change in their webserver shortly after releasing Eden which breaks compatibility. Therefore version 1.0 only works with Eden while version 1.1 works also with current git master of xbmc.

I guess the RaspBMC is using some git version which includes that change already.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

After playing a little with this version, i can see that download media does not seem to work for me (nothing happens when i press it).

The old issue of adding a folder with mp3s still doesn't work... :(

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hmm... odd... Can you send me some logs please (preferably via email)


And unfortunately that won't change for Xbmc Eden. If Xbmc does not add it, there's nothing I can do. I won't add recursive behavior to xbmcremote as that is even more fail prone than if xbmc itself would do it. If you really want to keep using Xbmc in files mode instead of the intended way (the library mode), you will have to get used to this issue.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

when trying to download a file i get this message in the console:
"This model does not support downloading"

mzanetti - i never tried to add a recursive folder structure to the playlist - only a single folder with only mp3s in it - i also tried to add a simple folder with no special chars on my D drive (windows/ntfs) with just 1 mp3 file named "test.mp3" and i still does not work.

here is the log:

Error reply received:
Request: "{ "id" : 77, "jsonrpc" : "2.0", "method" : "Playlist.Add", "params" : { "item" : { "directory" : "D:\\Media\\Music\
\Tracks\\111\\" }, "playlistid" : 0 } }"
Reply: "{"error":{"code":-32602,"message":"Invalid params."},"id":77,"jsonrpc":"2.0"}"

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

ok... I'll test again. Thanks for reporting the download issue - once again it's something only the "files" mode suffers :(

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I've found some other issue - it seems that when a phone call comes, the playing of song/movie is not paused even though it is set to in the settings panel. In many cases xbmcremote just crashes when that happens.

Will the log help on this case?

Thanks for your help.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hi again,

I have another issue. When using the search text box in artists or albums, it will only search on those fields, while showing all others: for instance, having an album called 'colony' from 'in flames', If I go to albums and search for 'in flames' it won't show anything, but searching for 'colony' will show the album (with the artist text). Doing the search in artists the other way round has the same results.

It would be nice if you could search for both album & artist in both cases. This is particulary usefull for music and the default music player app does the exact same thing.

Suggestions: the download option is very handy, specially to copy music from xbmc to the n9, but when copying album, can you include the cover (cover.jpg in the folder)? so the n9 music player will recognize it?

Thanks,

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Finally got a chance to use the latest version from ovi, some feedbacks:

- the joystick implementation is really nice much better than the previous method.
- didn't know there is tap-hold for sub-menus which is very useful, "mark as watched/unwatched" would be useful. I couldn't find anything about this from JSON-RPC API v4 but the keyboard shortcut for this is 'W'.
- the keyboard is handy, swiping down doesn't close it though.
- Tap-hold and drag for fast walking is a bit weird to use (default is really fast), I think the better option is dragging to a direction and hold (vibrates twice) and the stepping accelerates slowly.
- the back arrow could be in place of the playback menu, this way it's more intuitive for navigation (in my case as I don't use this menu at all).
- Please add an option to hide statusbar to prevent burn-in in case the screen is lid too long.

- Perhaps you could take a look of this style of navigating. This would fit the UX of harmattan nicely.
- In bright mode, control arrows are a bit difficult to see but joystick usage doesn't affect by this though.
-Thanks

Maybe I should take time to add my music collection to xbmc now, it's a total mess atm though.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Which device are you using? The N9 has an OLED display and these displays don't have the burn-in problem.

I've also found a small bug where the timer on the 'playing' page keeps ticking even after the currently playing item has ended. When I'm watching a 10 minute video the timer will keep running after it reaches the endtime. So it just keeps counting 10:01, 10:02 and so on, while the duration is correctly displayed as being 10:00.

The timer also seems to be off for about 20 seconds after seeking. When I click in the progressbar to seek the progressbar is about 20 seconds off with the time displayed in XBMC. So the timer in the app is displaying 10:00 while XBMC displays 10:20.

Both are some small annoyances which don't have a high priority. I might even try to fix them myself and will send you the patches.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I have the N9 and after a long time usage of fbreader, the statusbar has burned in. It's visible on bright background (in landscape). Most of the time it doesn't matter since the phone is in portrait and the statusbar is there anyway.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I tried it can't connect to host. I'm using Mac OSx Snow Leopard with XBMC V11.0 Eden and latest XBMC remote app. What should I do?

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

- Port routing ?

Below is my configuration for Network
http://i.imgur.com/xYtvS.png

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I'm thinking of buying some Mifare Ultralight NFC stickers, but I'm wondering how well these play with this app. When I scan a tag written by this app, does it automatically send a WOL packet to the device? I'm using OpenELEC so XBMC already does autostart when the PC starts. I've also got a Pulse-Eight HDMI-CEC adapter to have some interaction between (the remote of) the TV and the PC running XBMC. By using this small device the TV gets automatically switched on from standby when XBMC starts.

If I could just scan a NFC tag to start my HTPC and my TV that would be just awesome. So is this possible?

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Well, xbmcremote does support this, however Myfare ultralight chips provide only 48Bytes of storage which is not enough to store all the needed informations. In this case it skips the mac address used for wakeonlan.

So the bottomline is: Yes, xbmcremote can do it, but if you want wakeonlan, you have to use a larger chip. A NFC Tag Type 1, which has 96 bytes should be enough.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Hey guys... Sorry I have ignored you all for the past week, but after the sad news last Thursday I need to recover a bit. I'll hopefully find the motivation to continue with development soon...

Greetings from Ulm.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Thank you for your quick reply and clarifying answer :)

You're a Nokia developer working on Harmattan (and/or Meltemi)? It's indeed very sad news they're closing the office in Ulm. The N9 is just a great device, and I think the N900 was too. I had been thinking a long time about buying a N900, but thought it was too expensive. Then the N9 came, which I still thought was very expensive and I was thinking about waiting for one of the rumored Meltemi devices (because they would be more low end with a lower price). But now I've got the N9 I think it's worth every penny.

I've also started some reading on the code of the app and already did some small changes under the hood and have some more things I would like to change under the hood. When I finished some of them I will create a Gitorious account so I could send you a merge request for them. Or if you don't mind I will add the repo to my Github account (which I already have) and you can manually pull in the changes from there.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Don't take it personal, have been working for Nokia for about 6 years and really loved the company but then, 1 day somebody decided that my team wasn't needed anymore, without any thank you or hand-over period.
Have been feeling bad about that experience but the only thing I can say is, take your time to digest the news on a personal level. Nokia is just a company and their very human approach stopped sometime ago, as a Nokian you should know when that happened.

Anyway, your app is very good, your coding is very good.
Keep the momentum and think about your own future, the community will always have a supporting function so thumbs up to you and all of your colleagues affected!

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Yes. I love my N9 too and I'll keep on using it for a long time I guess. It will take a long time until something such awesome will be made again.

If you want to contribute patches you should join #xbmcremote on freenode so we can avoid communication issues as early as possible and save you some time searching for stuff.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

I have been discussing this with the XBMC devs, and it was resolved within 1 hour :)

See http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/13080

It is nominated to be included for the next 11.x release

In the meantime, I have applied the fix to the standard Eden build, and put the packages online here (amd64 only, sorry)

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Great news :)

For me this is the most important feature because starting and manipulating the playlist now requires you to stand in front of a turned on TV which is very annoying.

i used to use Salling Clicker before with my T3 PDA device and you did not need to turn the TV on and be in front of it so i'm quite spoiled :)

Anyway - i hope it'll be fixed once and for all...

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Many thanks for this program. It looks great and works great. I had been a satisfied user of vlcremote, sadly the newer versions of vlc seems to have removed the --http-album-art option resulting in a severe loss of eye-candy. For me Xbmcremote is an excellent alternative.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

To those requesting mark as (un)read. I found the API to do it (yes, it's actually in the JSON API, hidden away in SetXDetails (where X is Movie, Episode, TVShow or MusicVideo) as playcount parameter). But as I've been working on the app for two weeks now every evening and mzanetti has still some merge requests to look into I'm going to slow down and am not going to implement it right now.

I've also looked at Kozzis youtube video of the remote app for some TV brand. And indeed the overall usage seems pretty nice and I've already got some ideas to implement this in a future version. I would like to add the keyboard as a second page, and as XBMC Frodos JSON API will support receiving every user definable action I would like to add some kind of user definable page with custom buttons, so you could make a page with your own set of buttons and actions.

XBMC Frodo will also get a lot better input support. It's going to be possible to send texts in one go using the JSON API. Also XBMC will notify all apps when the virtual keyboard gets opened. This will make it possible to automatically open the virtual keyboard on the N9 to type the text. The notification of XBMC also has a type for keyboard/qwerty, numeric, date, time, ... so this makes it even possible to display the right input type. Got already a proof of concept finished and gave some feedback to the XBMC devs to refine the API.

I'm also planning on doing some contributions to the JSON API of the PVR builds (from Lars op den Kamp) so the PVR related things can be handled better in the remote app (page with the numbers, program up/down button, channel listing to select channel from, recording listing, ...)

But nothing concrete yet on these new features and I didn't discuss most of them with mzanetti yet. They're just some ideas I've had on improving the app and they're still open to input of others.

Edit:
Seems like I spoke to soon about (un)watch as the needed methods are only present since the May git code which means it will only be present in Frodo.

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Wow dude, 16 feature branches on gitorious! You sure are busy :)

I really hope mzanetti and you see eye to eye on improvements. I'd hate to see good stuff linger in branches without getting merged.

That said, I think it's important to keep Eden compatibility, since most users don't follow the bleeding edge. I assume the RPC interface allows you to query the version of the remote XBMC instance (which in turn could gracefully disable certain UI parts/select code paths if a particular version is detected)? Alternatively, the Frodo specific patches could be collected into a xbmcremote-next branch. This of course has a slightly different maintenance profile, but makes the changes less invasive on the 'stable' branch..

Re: [Announce] [N900,N950,N9] Xbmcremote
 

Sooo, as others start looking at my person clone on Gitorious I just did a little cleanup of the branches :) Some of them were from mzanneti, which were already present in the main repository and got copied over to my personal clone, and most of the others where already merged.

The only interesting ones which are still present are "keyboard" which is a small testcase to get the keyboard integrated with XBMC using Frodos new input related notifications and "item-state" which shows an overlay in the library when the item is currently being played (although mzanetti didn't really like my solution, but I think the feature will still be present in an upcoming version).

A couple of weeks ago I already spoke with mzanetti about Frodo support and although we didn't really come to a conclusion, at some point we most likely will drop Eden support. So there will be no "degraded" version for Eden users. Although I guess they would still be able to use a new Frodo based version, but that would mean they have some buttons and things which wouldn't work (non working keyboard and some buttons on the gesturepad not working would be most notable I guess).