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<blockquote data-quote="Shukuyen" data-source="post: 640164" data-attributes="member: 74313">Hey cheezey,thanks for the offer. I followed the iPimp development from your first steps until now and I am very impressed by what you achieved.The reason why I didn't just use iPimp is that your focus seemed to be on the TV part of MP in the early days and I don't use that part.Then I had the opportunity to learn some Cocoa coding and thought a remote would be a goog idea - not as a rival to iPimp but as a lightweight alternative. I will send you a PM with additional detail and I am really looking forward to hear your thoughts on this.Current status for the remote app:I rebooted development on the app because my prototype works but isn't as good as I wished it was. The new app is way better in how it handles things. The server discovery/connection stuff is almost done (I want to make this as easy and seamless for the user as possible), the next step will be to refactor the server part. SilentException pointed me to one of his plugins that helps me understand how to better send commands to MediaPortal without requiring the user to have a specific remote layout.Once this is done I will release the server plugin to interested developers for other platforms (Android comes to mind ...), so they can start on their apps while I tinker on my iPhone remote <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />The focus of the app will be really narrow in the first version: Find a server, connect to it, send simple commands like with a real remote and display basic info about the currently playing item. In the future I may add mediabrowsing and so on, but as I said I don't see this as competition to iPimp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shukuyen, post: 640164, member: 74313"] Hey cheezey, thanks for the offer. I followed the iPimp development from your first steps until now and I am very impressed by what you achieved. The reason why I didn't just use iPimp is that your focus seemed to be on the TV part of MP in the early days and I don't use that part. Then I had the opportunity to learn some Cocoa coding and thought a remote would be a goog idea - not as a rival to iPimp but as a lightweight alternative. I will send you a PM with additional detail and I am really looking forward to hear your thoughts on this. Current status for the remote app: I rebooted development on the app because my prototype works but isn't as good as I wished it was. The new app is way better in how it handles things. The server discovery/connection stuff is almost done (I want to make this as easy and seamless for the user as possible), the next step will be to refactor the server part. SilentException pointed me to one of his plugins that helps me understand how to better send commands to MediaPortal without requiring the user to have a specific remote layout. Once this is done I will release the server plugin to interested developers for other platforms (Android comes to mind ...), so they can start on their apps while I tinker on my iPhone remote :) The focus of the app will be really narrow in the first version: Find a server, connect to it, send simple commands like with a real remote and display basic info about the currently playing item. In the future I may add mediabrowsing and so on, but as I said I don't see this as competition to iPimp. [/QUOTE]

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