I'm working on it every free moment I have. Currently I'm struggling a bit with the database approach for media. Because I have a lot of music using the database with the http api is extremely slow. Querying all available songs from a particular artists takes about 15 seconds, even if there is only one song for that artist. It just takes XBMC very long to find it in the big database. I'm trying to figure out a way to speed things up. I might simply copy the database to the local machine and access it directly to overcome this. But the downside would be that any changes made in the database on XBMC while XBMControl is running would not be available until the database is downloaded again. And downloading the database could take a bit of time depending on the size (although it I'm talking about seconds here, most of the time).
It would be REALY nice if I could simply connect to the XBMC database files directly. Without having to use the http api web page results.
I've also completely reorganized the communication with XBMC. The XBMCcommunicator class was growing rapidly so I've created several class now to make it easier to use.
At this point I use 7 classes for communication..
- XBMC.Communicator.cs ~ handles the http requests and primary configuration
- XBMC.Controls.cs ~ handles the play, volume and progress actions
- XBMC.Database.cs ~ handles the database queries
- XBMC.Media.cs ~ handles the getting of shares info ('file mode')
- XBMC.NowPlaying.cs ~ handles the getting of 'now playing' information
- XBMC.Playlist.cs ~ handles everything regarding the playlist
- XBMC.Status.cs ~ handles the getting of everyting regarding the current status of XBMC
So now it's a bit clearer how to approach XBMC. Example....
Code:
using XBMC
....
XBMC_Communicator XBMC = new XBMC_Communicator();
XBMC.SetXbmcIp("10.1.1.100");
XBMC.SetCredentials("username", "password");
string[] aPlaylist = XBMC.Playlist.Get();
string[] aShares = XBMC.Media.GetShares("music");
int curVolume = XBMC.Status.GetVolume();
bool connected = XBMC.Status.IsConnected();
bool wsEnabled = XBMC.Status.WebserverEnabled();
string npArtist = XBMC.NowPlaying.Get("artist");
string[] aAlbums1 = XBMC.Database.GetAlbumsByArtist("artist name");
string artistId = XBMC.Database.GetArtistsId("artist name");
string[] aAlbums2 = XBMC.Database.GetAlbumsByArtistId(artistId);
XBMC.Controls.Play();
XBMC.Controls.LastFmLove();
XBMC.Controls.TogglePartyMode();
and so on.... But the database part isn't working really well yet. It will take some time to get it right! I'll keep you posted.
