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Are there any desktop widgets that have been developed for XBMC? - snafu7x7 - 2014-02-03
I found an older thread that seemed to touch on this but it seems that the gadget was designed to tap into the now obsolete HTTP API so there's no way that's going to work anymore.
Are you guys aware of any development on this front? The reason I ask is that I've got a nice rainmeter skin for my desktop of my HTPC and it would be really slick if I could control XBMC from a little widget on the desktop...nothing complicated really, even just a basic play-stop-pause-rew-ff and volume interface would be sweet. It would mainly be for music really because it doesn't make much sense to need to control a video in a window you aren't even using -lol
RE: Are there any desktop widgets that have been developed for XBMC? - sialivi - 2014-02-03
You ought to be able to do that via the JSON-RPC API.
See:
JSON-RPC subforum, http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=174
JSON-RPC wiki, http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=JSON-RPC_API/v6#Player
RE: Are there any desktop widgets that have been developed for XBMC? - butchabay - 2014-02-05
Or you could just minimize xbmc and control it via local host using the xbmc webinterface.