Windows Phone XBMC remote app (for XBMC 12 Frodo and Eden)

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Yeah, a few actually. Windows Phone is really catching on here in Sweden. Everyone at work got one since it's our new corporate standard, quite a few customers and old colleagues got one, my sister recently bought one (Nokia Lumia 800, same as me), and my mother is getting one very soon (also Lumia 800). And more and more friends are really interested in it. While my sister and mother don't use XBMC, many of my friends, colleagues and customers do (I work as a IT consultant).

Maybe worth having a look at the official Plex app for WP, to get some inspiration
http://www.wpcentral.com/official-plex-m...dows-phone

Their devs seem to love working with the platform
http://www.wpcentral.com/developer-offic...evelopment

[OFF TOPIC]
Plex for WP7 is still in development. I tried out the App but there are to many open issues with it (Plex Media Server 0.9.6).
In my opinion it's currently not an alternative to XBMC when having a WP7. And €4,99 is to high priced for that.

I'll take a look to that App when it is more stable ...

Version 1.6 is out now...

I hope to hear your feedback...

Question:
The left, up, right, down buttons are now repeating, is it a problem that if you swipe to the next pivot, the buttons will be triggered? Before it was not triggered because it was not a completed tap...

Love the new version

About the repeating - works good for me, but maybe it should repeat a bit more? I got lots and lots of movies in my library

Just bought the app

A few suggestions...
- After the screen locks the app sometimes have trouble reconnecting with xbmc. I know wi-fi turns off when the screen locks and it takes a while for that to reconnect, but sometimes even after that it takes a while longer (and a few times I got an error).
- Maybe make the remote screen buttons more "metro like" taking the color and text placement from the WP start screen? (but only if it works well, there's a risk the buttons will be harder to read etc).

Keep up the great work!

New version (1.7) has been submitted and should be available at the end of the week.

Changes:
- Fixed remote repeating, now faster
- Improved remote, now with subtitle/audio delay, change audio tracks/subtitles/aspect ratio
- UI improvements: background images, ...
- show cast for series and movies
- movie page: play trailers and show imdb page

@Cthugha
- Metro remote: I will consider using icons instead of text for the remote. This is not that important for me as I think it is already metro and it doesn't add that much value...
- Wireless issue: I tried to implement "run under lockscreen", but WiFi will be turned off anyway. Ill try to improve it in future versions.

The new version 1.10 is out! Remote direction buttons now repeating faster...

Why do allmost all good apps for Windows Phone cost money? Android has millions of good apps for free.

Just updated to latest XBMC 12 alpha 7 and that broke many of the remote commands during video playback (skip forward, backward, menu, etc). Not sure why, it still worked in alpha 6... Tested the official XBMC remote on Android and that one still works.

I would also love to see a restart command somewhere, if possible.

(2012-11-07 05:18)Cthugha Wrote:  Just updated to latest XBMC 12 alpha 7 and that broke many of the remote commands during video playback (skip forward, backward, menu, etc). Not sure why, it still worked in alpha 6... Tested the official XBMC remote on Android and that one still works.

I would also love to see a restart command somewhere, if possible.

Same thing with XBMC 12 beta 1 that was released today.

Fix please?

Hi,

I'm using this on a WP8 and it all seems good but there doesn't seem to be a way to access the context menus (unless I've missed it), will this be implemented on future releases?

Thanks

Deker