My XBMC App

kenshinu · 1 May 2012 at 13:41

Hey everyone,

I've made an XBMC remote application for my Major Project for my degree.

It's a novel approach that uses Rhodes (http://www.rhomobile.com/products/rhodes/) to create the application natively on either iOS, Android, etc.

My application is written in Ruby, HTML and JS. But has some cool features such as:
- Can put movies into a watch later list
- Can scan movie barcodes and either finds it added in the database or adds it to a buy later list

It uses the JSON RPC API to communicate with the XBMC server.

Since I've finished my dissertation I've opened up the source code. It can be found here: https://github.com/richrace/RemoteApp.

If anyone wants to add to it or fix anything you're more than welcome to.

Cheers!

englishpremier · 3 May 2012 at 13:47

Awesome are you going to publish this the market? I could use something like this for my android phone.

kenshinu · 3 May 2012 at 14:07

Hey, currently it's still a bit buggy and needs more work before I consider putting it on the Android market.

However, I've uploaded the APK to the github repo so you can download it and install it yourself - https://github.com/richrace/RemoteApp/tr...ndroid-APK

R088ieS86 · 3 May 2012 at 16:10

Just bought a tablet for XBMC remote control so will give this a look over and let you know how it goes. Like the watch list idea! does it work with TV Shows as well? (guess i'll find out

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kenshinu · 3 May 2012 at 16:23

Yea it works with TV Shows but it currently doesn't support watch later list for them.

It's still in development so I can't say how well it will work! Oh and it hasn't really been tested on tablets yet so the UI is still for phones.

blairw · 3 May 2012 at 17:17

Thats a cracking final project mate - well done.

I will have a look at it, but I use the excellent xbmc commander on my ipad / phone at the moment. The barcode scanner approach is pretty cool though!

kenshinu · 3 May 2012 at 17:20

blairw said:
Thats a cracking final project mate - well done.

I will have a look at it, but I use the excellent xbmc commander on my ipad / phone at the moment. The barcode scanner approach is pretty cool though!

Yea I use the XBMC Commander and think it's really good. That's the end goal, but will take a while to get there.

But instead of hiding this project after I finished it, I want people to notice these features and request it from really good apps, e.g. XBMC Commander