XBMC Commander - Yet another unofficial third-party XBMC remote for iPad

(2012-03-29 00:17)grywnn Wrote:  Hi clipper,
I now hav been able to reproduce the issue. Looks like there is a bug in the imdb app that causes it to crash when switching to it while the device is in landscape mode.
When the device is in portrait orientation imdb opens witthout problems.
I'll try to contact the imdb devs about this.
For now, until the imdb app gets fixed, rotate the device before hitting the imdb button...

Hi grywnn.

I realized last night that another popular XBMC iPad remote that I own (that I won't name here but rhymes with "Installation") will not crash when switching to the imdb app. FYI.

Cheers

Hi grywnn. You have built a fantastic app! I have enjoyed it for several months.

When using the "Files" feature and browsing VIDEO sources on my media server, XBMC Commander does not see password protected folders. The source is setup in XBMC with the correct username and password, and the folders can be browsed and accessed on XBMC, but when browsing on XBMC Commander the password protected folders do not show up.

I am using Windows 7 Professional on my Media Server. To be able to view the folder in XBMC Commander, the folder has to be shared with "everyone".

I password protect all video folders that are not Rated G, PG, or PG-13. On the kid's XBMC machine, I do not provide username and password information, so they can't access the "R" Movies and TV Shows. It works great as far as using XBMC, but as I said, XBMC Commander does not see the protected folders.

Thats a known problem - the JSON API strips the username / password information when returning the list the sources, but won't let you browse the source without the credential - kind of a chicken - egg - problem.
but good luck theres a workaround: Remove the login stuff from your sources.xml and put it into another file.
The last paragrap of my troubleshooting page describes how to:
http://xbmc-commander.com/page2/page9/page9.html

Thanks for the quick response. Problem solved!

(2012-03-08 10:46)grywnn Wrote:  The music / playlist crashes are Eden related and should be fixed with the update that i submitted to apple a few days ago. This update should ba available in a few days.
The fast scrolling crashes usually stop once all thumbnails are cached in the app.

As for your other questions:
I've been playing around with scroll lists a few times now, so far with no satisfying result. Works more or less when sorting alphabetical (although i got a few problems to get the letters right, since i let XBMC do the sorting), but when using other sort mechanisms things get ugly.

Enqueuing when pressing play makes perfect sense and shouldn't be too hard to implement (at least with eden), i've put it on my todo list.

Compilations should turn up in a "various artists". Thats because i'm scanning albums for this list, and XBMC returns exactly one artist per album. That's usually the main artist for regular albums or "various artists" for compilations (depends on how you tagged your music). If the app stumbles upon an album without artists info, it's sorted under "various artists" too.
But that reminds me that i wanted to double check the logic behind this, because i had a few reports about missing albums in the past.

Is there still the possibility of a toggle to make "Play" function as "enqueue"? Very frustrating when creating a playlist with friends and someone inadvertently clicks "play" by mistake and erases the entire playlist!

In "artist grouped" view, Various Artists doesn't appear anywhere so compilations don't seem to be available in his view.

I get flooded with requests lately, and i must admit i tend to forget the one or the other, which happened to me wanting to check the VA issue.
I did have a look at the enqueue option though, and it turns out it isn't as easy as i thought.
Not the enqueueing part, but locating the item in the playlist afterwards and jumping to it.
So i pushed this down my list in favor of some urgent bugfixes, and some easy to do improvements that have been waiting for quite some time now.

I've got a quick question for the group. I just installed Spotimc (Spotify plugin) on an XBMCbuntu box and every time I use Commander with the app, tracks play for about 7 -10 seconds and then skip to the next track. If I quit out of Commander, everything runs smooth.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Update: I think it might have something to do with Commander trying to get the track/playlist information.

Hi grywnn,

Another feature request for you, not sure if someone has already requested for it, or if its possible or not:

Basically, every time a new show or movie is added, within the movies tab or the tv show tab, that particular show/movie has a 'new' icon on it. Is it possible to have a new icon on the movies tab or tv shows tab itself? So that if there is a new tv show that has been added in my library, I can directly get notified by looking at the main screen, rather than going every now and then to the tv shows section and checking out all tv shows to see if anything is new added.

Thanks!

My remote swipe stopped working. Everything else still works fine. Any ideas?

@disolo:
I had another user with the same problem, for him it turned out to be another remote interfering with Commander.
I'd suspect the cause of the problem to be somewhere on XBMCs side, since all queries i do are only information retrieving and shouldn't generate any actions.
Is there anything suspicious in a debug xbmc.log?

@mukati;
Never thought about it, love the idea, will give it a try

@emptyhead:
I'm basically sending keyboard commands on swipes - did you change something in your keyboard.xml file?