Remote Control for XBMC (unofficial iPad/iPhone remote)

gertjanzwartjes Wrote:Submitted a new version (1.4.1) to Apple for review yesterday, fixing this issue.

EDIT: Btw, this is a Dharma only issue, works just fine on Eden nightly builds.

I tested the version you sent me last night and the music appears to work fine, but when I go to TV Shows, it lists all the names of the shows, but says for example "1 season, 0 episodes" and I didn't take a close enough look at it, but it appears the total seasons is correct (minus "Season 00") yet every single show has "0 episodes" and when I touch a show it just takes me to essentially a blank interface (it has the same iTunes look, just nothing appears). I know you mentioned in the PM that your support for Nightlies is for Sept. forward due to the change in JSON and I'm using the Aug. 29 (for compatibility of other apps) so that's most likely the problem. I can create screenshots later if requested.

Last part, not sure if it's because of the issues I seem to have or I missed something, but while viewing albums, shows, etc. does it pull any art from XBMC like covers? I only see text for everything and not a single image.

Archigos Wrote:I tested the version you sent me last night and the music appears to work fine, but when I go to TV Shows, it lists all the names of the shows, but says for example "1 season, 0 episodes" and I didn't take a close enough look at it, but it appears the total seasons is correct (minus "Season 00") yet every single show has "0 episodes" and when I touch a show it just takes me to essentially a blank interface (it has the same iTunes look, just nothing appears). I know you mentioned in the PM that your support for Nightlies is for Sept. forward due to the change in JSON and I'm using the Aug. 29 (for compatibility of other apps) so that's most likely the problem. I can create screenshots later if requested.

Last part, not sure if it's because of the issues I seem to have or I missed something, but while viewing albums, shows, etc. does it pull any art from XBMC like covers? I only see text for everything and not a single image.

First of all, thanks for testing!

I currently support only nightly builds as of Sept 6, but before the last changes made on Sept 18. It's just impossible to support each and every nightly build; it's about making choices. My choice is to support the latest and greatest, however, it's still hard to keep up with the changes. I'm currently working on supporting the latest stuff from Sept 18.

With supported versions (i.e. Dharma or 9/5 < nightly < 9/18), you should see album artwork and TV show season artwork.

gertjanzwartjes Wrote:First of all, thanks for testing!

I currently support only nightly builds as of Sept 6, but before the last changes made on Sept 18. It's just impossible to support each and every nightly build; it's about making choices. My choice is to support the latest and greatest, however, it's still hard to keep up with the changes. I'm currently working on supporting the latest stuff from Sept 18.

With supported versions (i.e. Dharma or 9/5 < nightly < 9/18), you should see album artwork and TV show season artwork.

Once I get the latest beta of another app I'm testing, they are supposed to support the newer Nightlies and I'll update to Sept. 15+ which should solve most of it. Thanks

Apple has approved version 1.4.1, which fixes some issues with the TV shows library browser crashing when you have "specials" episodes for a TV show.

Next I'll be working on supporting the latest and greatest JSON-RPC changes, since the XBMC team is freezing the code base for the upcoming Eden release it looks like the support for nightly builds might now slowly stabilize.

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

A minor update of XBMC Remote Control for iPad is now available on the App Store, which adds support for the upcoming XBMC 11.0 (Eden). If you are still using nightly builds, please make sure it is from October 19 or later.

In the meantime I'm continuing my work on movie library browsing support.

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

XBMC is a great entertainment program, but typing into the text block for a search, writing titles, etc. is slow and tedious. Are there any iPad remotes in which you can use an onscreen keyboard to type successfully? I have the following and they all fail:

ROWMOTE:
PROBLEM: Whenever I attempt to type in a title in Rowmote on my iPad (ver 1) for a search in Apple TV (silver, ver 1) Flash modified XBMC, I get letters added out to infinity. Example: typing in "movie", I get "movieeeeeeeeee", i.e. the keys often appear stuck. This only happens under XBMC, not the root ATV.

Reply from the publisher: That's certainly a problem!, I'll look into this ASAP.
But so far no solution.

Reply from Firecore: We've heard of the issue but unfortunately aren't involved in the XBMC development process.

REMOTE HD:
PROBLEM: Whenever I attempt to type in a title in Remote HD, I get letters added out to infinity.

Reply from the publisher:This is a bug with XBMC that we are aware of, The keys sometimes get stuck. We will hopefully have this fixed with the next update.
This only happens in XBMC.
No fix so far.

XBMC COMMANDER:
PROBLEM: I am having a problem with the keyboard. When I go into a XBMC repository, such as 1Channel, and try to do a search by filling out the text block, I have problems. Not only does nothing type in the text block, but XBMC Commander immediately disconnects and states, "using cached data whenever possible". The only way I can get out of this frozen situation is to use my hand held remote (Logitech Harmony One) and back out of the text
block. How do I use the XBMC Commander keyboard in a repository?

Reply from publisher: Thats actually an XBMC problem. As soon as an addon opens a text window, XBMC suspends its internal web services, thus terminating all communication with XBMC Commander. I've opened a ticket in XBMCs bugtracker for this quite some time ago: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11213
hope this will get fixed... Unfortunately for now theres nothing i can do about it


So is there an iPad XBMC remote that will operate successfully with XBMC in the keyboard mode?

@simbafish: you are posting your question in a forum of (yet) another XBMC remote, this one is called "XBMC Remote Control for iPad".

However, to answer your question, to my knowledge the clearest answer you already got from grywnn. All remotes that will connect to XBMC through any of it's services will suffer from the same problem with addons. Whenever an addon is running, XBMC suspends its remote control interfaces. There's just nothing that you can do about it than to fix this inside XBMC's codebase itself. You can follow the progress on that through issue as reported by grywnn.

XBMC Remote Control for iPad suffers from the same issue with addons, though I have never had reports of keys being stuck.

A few days ago the XBMC team released XBMC Eden release candidate 1. In there, the JSON-RPC protocol version has been updated to version 4, which causes problems with XBMC Remote Control for iPad. That's my bad; I thought the version number would only be increased at the official release, but it seems that I should have accounted for the new version number in the RC cycles already. For everyone that updated to RC1 and having problems connecting, this morning I submitted XBMC Remote Control for iPad 1.4.3 for review by Apple, which fixes the problem. I hope it will be available in the App Store in a few days.

By the way, movie support is going forward, my goal is to release it around the time that XBMC Eden is officially released as well.

For all the lucky ones that already own a new iPad, XBMC Remote Control for iPad has been updated to support full Retina display graphics. If you want to try, it's just been approved by Apple and you can download it on the App Store.

I don't have access to a new iPad (yet), so I'd be interested to know how XBMC Remote Control for iPad looks on the new display ;-).

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.