Remote Control for XBMC (unofficial iPad/iPhone remote)

(2012-03-26 01:57)migra Wrote:  Just bought the app and it looks very promising indeed. Is there going to be an enqueue option for music? I would really like to be able to put different songs into the playlist instead of direct playing them by clicking.

Thanks for trying it out. About enqueing songs, that's not supported yet, although playlist support is on my to do list. I'm currently optimizing the last things in movie support, and hoping to submit it to the App Store in the next week or two. After that I'm going to revisit my to do list and see what's next ;-).

Hey, love the app; it's clean and apple-esk. Can't wait for the movies integration and possibly music.

I notice the settings for the app are quit sparse. Can you add an option to include the word 'the' in the title. I hate it when it's ignored.

(2012-03-28 12:30)mosesvii Wrote:  Hey, love the app; it's clean and apple-esk. Can't wait for the movies integration and possibly music.

I notice the settings for the app are quit sparse. Can you add an option to include the word 'the' in the title. I hate it when it's ignored.

Thanks for the compliment! It's great to hear, since I basically designed it to be clean and have a familiar iOS feel. Indeed there are currently not much settings, I have some more ideas, and your suggestion would fit in that list. I put it on my to do list.

I'm polishing the last bits and pieces of Movie support, and I hope to send it out to beta testers this weekend...

I'm very excited to announce that finally I have submitted version 1.5.0 to the App Store for review, which contains movie library browsing support! I've spent a lot of time optimizing it for all iPad models, including the original iPad 1, to work smoothly even with large libraries. Movies are shown as thumbnails, working in both portrait as well as landscape mode and for large enough libraries a section index is included for easy browsing. I've already updated the screenshots in the first post of this thread as a preview; I'll announce the release here too when it's approved.

(2012-04-28 15:55)gertjanzwartjes Wrote:  I'm very excited to announce that finally I have submitted version 1.5.0 to the App Store for review, which contains movie library browsing support! I've spent a lot of time optimizing it for all iPad models, including the original iPad 1, to work smoothly even with large libraries. Movies are shown as thumbnails, working in both portrait as well as landscape mode and for large enough libraries a section index is included for easy browsing. I've already updated the screenshots in the first post of this thread as a preview; I'll announce the release here too when it's approved.

Nice work! Keep it up we all appreciate it

Hot from the presses, XBMC Remote Control for iPad version 1.5.0, with movie library support is now available on the App Store.

There's some more minor changes as well: support for passwords with non-alpha-numeric characters is fixed, also music, TV shows and movies with diacritical marks are now better supported and many internal improvements to make the app run fast and robust on all iPad models.

Congrats on the update! I've just updated my app and tried out the movies view. Works like a treat. I have about 13 terabyte of videos (tv shows + movies), Ive downloaded nearly every xbmc iPad app there is and am comfortable saying yours is the best with handling movies. It was so fast at updating the movie thumbnails, scrolling down through hundreds of movies is so smooth; unlike some of the other apps out there. Great work! It would be nice to have different views available for tv shows, no doubt you have tons of things you plan on doing with the app. Keep up the great work! I'll post a review on the app store.

(2012-05-05 01:30)mosesvii Wrote:  Congrats on the update! I've just updated my app and tried out the movies view. Works like a treat. I have about 13 terabyte of videos (tv shows + movies), Ive downloaded nearly every xbmc iPad app there is and am comfortable saying yours is the best with handling movies. It was so fast at updating the movie thumbnails, scrolling down through hundreds of movies is so smooth; unlike some of the other apps out there. Great work! It would be nice to have different views available for tv shows, no doubt you have tons of things you plan on doing with the app. Keep up the great work! I'll post a review on the app store.

Thanks, it's really great to hear that it's working so smooth with a huge library like yours. A good way to start the weekend with a positive review like this, definitively motivates me to continue adding more features!

One of the things I indeed have in mind is adding new ways of browsing through music and video libraries, like an album and genre browser for music. Another thing I plan on adding is a detailed movie/TV show view (with plot, rating, actors, etc). I haven't really thought about other ways of browsing TV shows, suggestions are welcome of course ;-).

Another thing which is on my list is adding a view for current audio/video playlist. So enough to choose from. But quality remains very important to me, for every new feature I add.

A minor update 1.5.1, with a few minor bugfixes and support for repeating tap-and-hold up/down/left/right navigation and volume +/- buttons.

Want to give it a try? Check out or download XBMC Remote Control for iPad on the App Store.

Hey gertjanzwarjes, I am having some trouble with your app. Do you mind helping me out so I can tell you how awesome it is? Whenever I try to connect, I get a message that says, "Error Connecting to XBMC: Unsupported protocol version 5, most likely the version of XBMC you are trying to connect with is not supported. Check application settings or XBMC host, tap connection LED to reconnect."

My IP and port settings are correct. I'm not using a password. I am running one of the recent nightly builds (I can't remember which one off hand). Any idea what I should do to get this going? Thanks in advance.