iPhone interface for MediaPortal (iPiMP) - original thread (now closed) (1 Viewer)

[cheezey]

iPiMP is a web interface for MediaPortal specifically designed for the iPhone, but also works with any Smartphone or device that uses a webkit based browser. It uses MediaPortal interfaces to communicate with both the TV Server and MediaPortal clients.

You can use iPiMP to interact with your MediaPortal TV Server allowing you to view your TV guide, read program details, schedule programs to be recorded, email program details as well as view, manage & watch your existing recordings. Watching live TV though is not possible (yet!).

There is a status facility allowing you to view the status of your services, disk capacity and tv card activity, you can also stop a card when timeshifting if you want to kick someone off.

You can also use iPiMP to interact with your MediaPortal clients, you can use it as a remote control, browse/play your video and music databases on your MediaPortal clients, send messages to popup on your MediaPortal clients and startup/shutdown/reboot/standby/hibernate your clients. The client functionality will be extended to provide additional features for other MediaPortal plugins.

Screenshots below...

iPiMP v1 released 5th Nov.
iPiMP v2 released 16th Nov.
iPiMP v2.0.1 released 18th Nov.
iPiMP v2.1.0 released 29th Nov.
iPiMP v2.1.1 released 2nd Dec.
iPiMP v2.2.0 released 8th Dec.
iPiMP v3.0.0 released 20th Dec.
iPiMP v3.2.0 released 9th Jan.
iPiMP v3.3.0 released 31st Jan.
iPiMP v3.4.0 released 21st Mar.
iPiMP v3.4.1 released 11th Apr.
iPiMP v3.5.0 released 23rd May.
iPiMP v4.0.0 released 25th Oct.
iPiMP v4.0.1 released 28th Nov.
iPiMP v4.0.2 released 24th Dec.
iPiMP v4.1.0 released 16th Jan.
iPiMP v4.2.0 released 23rd Mar.

Change log
Download here
The Wiki (including install instructions) has also moved to the Google code site
The source is up on Google code
to help support continued iPiMP development.

 

[schneipk]

Looks like an awesome job!
Would you think browsing through music an displaying coverart/playlists would be hard to add?
Maybe I can find some time to help you if you need help..
Just send me a msg..
Phat job!!

 

[revs]

awesome! I'd considered it, but was too lazy!!

 

[Darre]

I missed this topic somehow.. But its looking awesome =)

 

[mortstar]

Looks awesome cheezey.

Just the sort of thing I'd been thinking about, but you're talking about features that are just - WOW!

 

[joystick]

hell yeah!!

can't wait for your first release....

cheers

joystick

 

[cheezey]

First release

First release has been posted to the MP extensions/plugins section. Let me know how the installer goes.

If you install it onto your TV server - it *should* all work out of the box.

https://www.team-mediaportal.com/files/Download/Plugins/Web/iPiMP-iPhoneinterfaceforMediaPortal/

 

[revs]

I know that with some iPhone web-apps you can make them behave more like native apps (i.e. Full Screen Mode, which hides toolbars and navigation buttons and makes the website more like an app) - does iPiMP do this?

see: Dashcode User Guide: Providing Attributes for a Web Application

 

[allanp81]

Well it works great, cheers! Can't wait to get live tv as well!

 

[cheezey]

I know that with some iPhone web-apps you can make them behave more like native apps (i.e. Full Screen Mode, which hides toolbars and navigation buttons and makes the website more like an app) - does iPiMP do this?

see: Dashcode User Guide: Providing Attributes for a Web Application

Not quite - some of this functionality comes with IUI though which I use - for example orientation changes and loading the web page to hide the safari toolbar.

This is developed on my PC is ASP.NET - no MAC so no Dashcode.

Also - I've started the iPiMP wiki - this will have more instructions, bugs, ideas etc.

https://www.team-mediaportal.com/manual/Extensions-TV-Server-Plugins/iPiMP