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

First of all: I'm happy to see thats there's obviously some interest in this project!

danceresort Wrote:Some features that would be nice to see:

"Remote" function so you can control XBMC thru menus (some times you need to go in to settings, and getting up for the keyboard is too much work!
Once playing, have some Video control functions (Pause, stop, skip etc)

I will definitely implement something like that.
Right now i've got some kind of split screen in mind, with the currently playing item and corresponding controls (play/stop etc) in the first part and generic XBMC controls (up, down, enter, back, menu, info etc) in the second part.
Sadly the new JSON API doesn't support all these things (yet), so i'm going for the good old HTTP API for now. Hope it won't be gone from the final Dharma release (although deprecated it's still available in the betas)

danceresort Wrote:Ability to filter by Watched (would make finding movies easier to find I haven't seen )

I intend to add a filter button to the navigation bar, allowing to change the sort order and filter by watched/unwatched. Just as you can do in XBMC.

danceresort Wrote:And ability to create a play lists maybe?

I've got some basic support on my mind: Enqueue tracks / albums from a popup menu. Maybe the ability to manipulate the playlist. Don't really know yet.

Status right now:
I've just finished support for rotation in movie & tvshow library.
Next on my todo list are: music library, filters, support for banners in tvshows (only posters right now), preferences page, remote control, performance issues (debugging iPad apps can be a real pain in the a**).
Still a long way to go

Gonna post a new video soon.

Will you have a search function too( over 1400 movies) and a update library ?

jeromem75 Wrote:Will you have a search function too( over 1400 movies) and a update library ?

Update library: For sure!
Search function: Good idea, i'll see what i can do.

Also Playlists for TV Shows too

Maybe a nice feature as well for recently added, that way you can queue you 2-3 new shows and just watch back to back.. Im all abou the lazy!

Another thought I had.. Wake on Lan would be epic for it too

I'm highly interested, too

Just updated the first post.
New video online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTNzp2zb4AY
Still a long way to beta status.
Any suggestions welcome :-)

grywnn Wrote:Just updated the first post.
New video online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTNzp2zb4AY
Still a long way to beta status.
Any suggestions welcome :-)

it looks very good !
Do you know if it would be possible while holding the finger and sliding you can see the alphabet, so for example i wanna slide to the letter D I can just hold my finger on the screen then slide side way until I get the letter D.
it could be a transparent bars that pop up with some letters displayed when you press and hold the movie poster area ?

Do you pull the movie info regardless how the movie was scraped ? via xbmc or third party nfo manager ?

jeromem75 Wrote:Do you know if it would be possible while holding the finger and sliding you can see the alphabet, so for example i wanna slide to the letter D I can just hold my finger on the screen then slide side way until I get the letter D.
it could be a transparent bars that pop up with some letters displayed when you press and hold the movie poster area ?

I'll give it a thought, but it might prove extremely difficult.

Quote:Do you pull the movie info regardless how the movie was scraped ? via xbmc or third party nfo manager ?

I get all movie metadata from XBMC. No need to reinvent the wheel

grywnn Wrote:I'll give it a thought, but it might prove extremely difficult.


I get all movie metadata from XBMC. No need to reinvent the wheel

Hi, I am using ember media manager that would create nfo and thumbnail, posters, I do not use XBMC scrapers add on.
Does XBMC commander detect those. Ultimote doesn't detect those and only use the database scraped by xbmc itself.