Maraschino (formerly HTPC Frontend) - a summary web interface for your XBMC HTPC

Not wanting to reinvent the wheel, anyone got a init.d script for fedora(or centos/rhel)?

Just wanted to post and thank all that have contributed in this project! I love my new HTPC frontend .

I've just pushed the search feature to master. Big, big thanks to gugahoi for creating this one!

To use the search feature you need to enter some settings first, which you can do by selecting "search settings" in the new expandable menu in the top-right of the page. Once you have enabled the feature and entered your search provider details, you can display the search menu by pressing "ALT-s". From here you can search Usenet and add items straight to your SABnzbd download queue. Very handy, I'm sure you'll agree!

It's worth mentioning that in order to add items to SABnzbd from NZBmatrix you will need to enter your NZBmatrix API details into SABnzbd through the configuration menu. We're working on being able to skip this step, though.

As part of this release, server settings has moved into the "extra settings" menu in the top right. This menu means that we now have a place to add extra stuff that doesn't have an obvious place in the interface.

Great work adding utorrent to mara, it was a missed feature. Im just wondering if you can controll it aswell, like pause etc?

(2012-04-14 17:10)hellow Wrote:  Great work adding utorrent to mara, it was a missed feature. Im just wondering if you can controll it aswell, like pause etc?

The uTorrent module was the work of robweber, so thanks go to him for that!

I believe that currently it is just for viewing information about downloads, but more functionality could be added in the future.

It took me a while, but I finally got round to fixing the custom background images feature.

If you enable "use a random background image when not watching media" in the settings dialog, Maraschino will randomly select one of the bundled background images on page load, instead of the default grass background.

If you create the folder "custom" in "<path to maraschino>/static/images/backgrounds/" and fill it with images, Maraschino will randomly choose from just these images.

(2012-04-14 17:10)hellow Wrote:  Great work adding utorrent to mara, it was a missed feature. Im just wondering if you can controll it aswell, like pause etc?

I do have plans on adding more functionality. The client library I used is adapted from the uTorrent XBMC plugin so other commands should be easy to implement. I'm still trying to get my head around the structure of Maraschino so it may take a little. I'm hoping a few weeks at the most.

Support for multiple XBMC servers is very nearly finished. It's on branch "multiple-servers" if anybody wants to test it out (please post any bugs here if you do).

I can't seem to get any connection with xbmc going from maraschino.
I have tried both the master and the multiple-servers branch.

I am running maraschino on the same machine as xbmc (latest svn) / sickbeard & sabnzbd and the Trakt.tv plugin for xbmc.

The remote control services are running, and I have checked to see if I can telnet to port 9090 (JSON-RPC over TCP) from the machine itself and from another machine in the network.
Everything is working fine, except that I do not get any library or recently added information.
Instead I get "There was a problem connecting to the XBMC server." and now I am stumped.

Any advice on how to tackle this ?

(2012-04-15 02:54)Kibje Wrote:  I can't seem to get any connection with xbmc going from maraschino.
I have tried both the master and the multiple-servers branch.

I am running maraschino on the same machine as xbmc (latest svn) / sickbeard & sabnzbd and the Trakt.tv plugin for xbmc.

The remote control services are running, and I have checked to see if I can telnet to port 9090 (JSON-RPC over TCP) from the machine itself and from another machine in the network.
Everything is working fine, except that I do not get any library or recently added information.
Instead I get "There was a problem connecting to the XBMC server." and now I am stumped.

Any advice on how to tackle this ?

All of Maraschinos JSON requests are sent over http. The remote is a little different as it uses the event server.
Also Maraschino is not currently compatible with pre-frodo builds if thats what you are using.