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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cheezey" data-source="post: 622423" data-attributes="member: 10350">Here we are again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I agree the MediaPortal would definately benefit from a single approach and would be happy to work toward that.  I have stated that I'd migrate iPiMP to gemx's MPWebServices when it was in a position to fulfil my requirements, which it isn't at the moment, but as a concept it is spot on. I think I have written iPiMP in such a way as it wouldn't be too much work to migrate to a common 'MPWeb' or MPWebServices layer.I'd like to make some points in reply to the above posts and some personal thoughts on an implementation:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">iPiMP is trying to be a smartphone interface - not just for the iPhone anymore.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A fully fledged web server is a requirement - that way you get the flexibility, stability, extendability and cool community stuff like the <a href="http://smoothstreaming.code-shop.com/trac/wiki" target="_blank">Smooth Streaming extension</a>. This has the potential to make a generic streaming module VERY simple.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I am not a web developer (I'm not really any kind of developer - just a hobbyist), all the iPiMP screen layout and AJAX comes for free with the <a href="http://webapp-net.com/" target="_blank">WebApp.Net</a> framework I use.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I used VB.Net as I had tinkered in the past with VBScript and IIS hosted Asp.Net sites.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">iPiMP deploys a MPclient plugin - a single process plugin which is used by the web app to control the MP client and access it's DBs (via MP / plugin functions) - this way you don't need to have a webserver running on every client - which is a good thing!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If the MPWeb code layer was implemented as web services and ran on a full web server then all other web interfaces should run on the same web server. My ideal would be to have one web server and be able to access TV server and all MP clients.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dragy - the iPiMP code is compiled into a DLL - the source though is all on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ipimp/" target="_blank">Google code</a> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></li> </ul>I only code iPiMP so what dev time I have is dedicated to that, I know gemx has his fingers in many pies so getting his time may be a problem, and has Big_Kev rejoined the forums?  What we need though is a good web developer (no offence to anyone) - I know the MP team have struggled with this in the past also.So - you can count me in from the iPiMP side if you get enough traction to make this fly.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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