[Web Interface Addon] Web iPad Interface

**Update**

- new side menu design
- added playlist option - double tap to add movie, then tap to open window with selected movies.



- still needs cleanup



Hi,

Was wondering if there was intrest out there,

Got sick of waiting for people to develop a nice and simple interface to view and select movies on an ipad to play on the tv.

I have an apple TV and it sucks when you have a couple of hundred of movies and you need to scroll through each one with a remote, to get to what you want.

So I put together a quick, simple web interface for the ipad to view and select a movie, the UI is not finished and heaps of code clean up needs to occur, but I though if anyone is intrested I am willing to release it as a addon (soonish).




This is build with the new json-rpc.

Current has:
- Pagination
- View recent/All
- show only recent unplayed movies (playcount=0)
- different shading depending on playcount

I want to add:
- tap to view movie details with some nice webkit-transform effect (3d rotate)
- double tap to add to a local queue, - short list of movies to watch
- link to imdb

PS: this are just test movies to get covers and info for the display, so no movie bashings

Hell WOOT yes, I am sick of looking at the little app i have for iPhone.

2 questions though..
1. Can web interface cache the images?
2. is it possible to update library through web interface?

UserInterface Wrote:Hell WOOT yes, I am sick of looking at the little app i have for iPhone.

2 questions though..
1. Can web interface cache the images?
2. is it possible to update library through web interface?

1. Will have to look into that
2. Def can, there is a json-rpc command, should be simple enough. Though tracking when its finished updating isn't - though would be cool.

Another thing - I dont want to make this into a huge remote, only for selection of movies.

FYI, currently it takes about 1-2 sec locally to display the page with 16 movies.

Ilia Wrote:1. Will have to look into that
2. Def can, there is a json-rpc command, should be simple enough. Though tracking when its finished updating isn't - though would be cool.

Another thing - I dont want to make this into a huge remote, only for selection of movies.

FYI, currently it takes about 1-2 sec locally to display the page with 16 movies.

Nah I don't care about any other function for that I can use the other remote.
It is more just if you want to start a movie and it's not in the list then it would be cool to kick off the scan.

Not a show stopper, as I can get up and use the keyboard \ remote. It's just the one thing that I thought would be good on the iPad web interface (also thought that I can port forward, and run scan before I leave work. This is what I currently do with the iphone app so once again not a big issue for me)

Ilia Wrote:FYI, currently it takes about 1-2 sec locally to display the page with 16 movies.

Thats not bad, it is way worse on my iphone app.
Takes about 5 seconds for each screen, and that normally holds 3

might just add some "loading" dialogs, to make it seem quick

With the updating of the library check out the autoupdate addon in the plugins thread - I set that up so that it auto updates every hour by itself .

Ilia Wrote:1. Will have to look into that
2. Def can, there is a json-rpc command, should be simple enough. Though tracking when its finished updating isn't - though would be cool.

Another thing - I dont want to make this into a huge remote, only for selection of movies.

FYI, currently it takes about 1-2 sec locally to display the page with 16 movies.

For number 2 add a feature request for announcements and cc me or malard, seems like a valid announcement. However announcements aren't transmitted on http so I know you might not want / need it

topfs2 Wrote:For number 2 add a feature request for announcements and cc me or malard, seems like a valid announcement. However announcements aren't transmitted on http so I know you might not want / need it

Will do if its an major issue.

The one that I do want though, is "nowPlayingMovie" - I know it has been discussed, would this make it into the final dharma?

Anything Ipad ready and good quality is welcome since we lack on both so fare. :-)

Ilia Wrote:Will do if its an major issue.

The one that I do want though, is "nowPlayingMovie" - I know it has been discussed, would this make it into the final dharma?

Well we announce when playback have started, your free to probe for information about the playing item when you get this announcement. We try to keep the announcements to just have enough data for the clients to know what to do, if we send to much clients might get more than they need and since there is no filtering of announcements its better to let them ask for what they need IMO.