Windows Yatse 2 : Open Source Media Center Remote Control App for Touch Screen

I test on Win XP3, Win 7 X64 and Win 7 x86.

Alpha 3 have a little bug on config files Seems the name i choose for local config was not a good choice.

I'm finishing the modifications for multi size interface, so can't upload a fix now.
Should be up tomorrow night.

(http://apress.com/book/view/9781430219101 very good book on WPF)

As a test delete the Yatse.config in the prog directory and the tolriq dir in C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data
(Assuming you use alpha 3).

If YATSE lauch and work until you save a config and restart the app it should be fixed on alpha 4.

Tolriq.

I couldn't resist, and had to try immediately.

However, I have some problems

I start Yatse (Alpha3), then XBMC. Yatse is started from a random directory.

When I start Yatse, the menu bar on the left appears.
-> For all buttons, no musik, videos, .... found (maybe I need to keep myself updated with the fanart stuff).
-> Settings seems to work

However, when I start XBMC after I started Yatse, Yatse disappears from my small display. ....

I tried both: Yatse only, and Yatse and later XBMC started, but when I close the CDRom Tray with a CD inside .... nothing happens (any Win7 changes to make - like autoplay with XBMC ... ?).

Well,

It's normal that YATSE show nothing if XBMC is not started since it use it's integrated Web Server to gather data.

You should start XBMC before YATSE if on the same computer.

How are your screen configured ?
The touchscreen is the secondary screen and XBMC on the first one ?

If using on the same computer there's an option in xbmc that should be checked it's :
Use full size window instead of full screen. And verify that that the option Clear other screens is not checked too

For auto play in XBMC i don't know if there's an option, but you can use the 4th button on the left menu, to get to the remote control mode.
Then click the cd button to start play the cd.

Edit :
To auto play audio cd check Settings/Music/audio CD and the autoplay checkbox


Tolriq.

Ok so big update, i let the alpha Tag since lot's of download and no feedback (and i need to change implementation of coverflow)

If you update from older version please remove totaly the old application and the Tolriq dir in : C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data

- Changed the config filename to Settings.xml to remove an odd bug.
- Support multi resolution (anything >= 800*600)
- Support stacked movies
- Lots of bug correction
- Add a debug mode in config file to have full log
- Better Exception handling and log.
- Option to hide mouse cursor.
- On the fly options activation on saving (Resolution / Library refresh)

This application is now fully useable for touch screen , and as a remote controler with a mouse (even if movie list is not optimized for).

Hope to have more feedback from now

Well, I am making some progress ;-) ... but slowly ...

I deleted the Tolriq dir, deleted the old versions of Yatse ..
Then I start XBMC and after that Yatse (Alpha 4)
- Changed XBMC to Web Server activated
- however, cant get it to work ... :-( ...
- what webserver address ? IP adress of my computer running XBMC or Loopback (127.0.0.1) adress ? With the Test button I always get a message, that wrong XBMC parameters are selected (Win7 Firewall on or off). Any more ways to test it ?

Good is that CD starts automatically playing ;-) ahhhhhhh, but I cannot skip tracks, pause, .... with the display control (4th button in the menu).

Because the web server does not correctly work I think its no surprise that i do not find any films or music, right ?

Additionally, currently it seems very resource hungry. Sometimes it takes seconds until it takes the next touchscreen touch - about 23% resources taken by XBMC on my Atom330.

Regards

Ok so first you must test the webserver.

So on a computer just launch a internet browser and type http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (the XBMC browser).

If it works, on YATSE you need to enter the ip address of the XBMC machine.

You wont be able to control anything from YATSE until the XBMC test is OK

For the interface going slow this is a side effect of bad XBMC configuration. Since WPF is more or less single threaded, the interface locks whenever request are done to XBMC and waiting for the timeout (2sec currently).

I'm sure you'll find the correct parameters for the Web Server and enjoy this prog as i do

Tolriq.

Time for Beta 1.

Thanks to dakkar from medios i have a way to virtualize the coverflow (let's resume by speed on large lists ). (It's implementation is not perfect since i have a problem with two way databinding on selectedindex but my hack works)

So here's beta 1 with new album view (3D Coverflow).

Should be stable enough to play with (i have a alpha4 running for 4 days on the HTPC and no crash).

Since the software is near of what i want it to be for a first release, i also release the source code (on google code).

Since it's my first C# / WPF projet the code might not be perfect but you're welcome to improve it and send the better version

Tolriq.

PS : More thant 50 downloads and 1 feedback that's not a lot

Actually, I have for a long time wanted to get XBMC running with some sort af touchscreen. And YATSE could be what I needed to throw some money in the project.

Do you know if any USB monitors work, say 7". Should they work?

/eloo

Well, for the touch screen part any screen that emulate mouse action should work.

You can try YATSE with your mouse to see how it works.

Personnaly i only test this on my HTPC case wich is bundled with an iMon 7'' touch LCD.

Damn, this looks good. I'm finally gonna purchase a Touchscreen! Very Nice!