Webinterface plugin (3 Viewers)

[tkortell]

Re: WAP interface not workin correctly on my phone...

Hi Tomas,

There should be an option in the options setting of the phone.

Thanks Thomas for your help, obviously, (as in most cases) the problem was between the chair and the phone

R / tk

 

[ZetaVu]

Ok, I've been playing around with the new version and I have a question. My main purpose is to use this plugin on my pda to control the music library (and other features, but that's the most important). Now, I haven't even gotten as far as the pda yet, still testing on a networked pc.

Accessing through a web browser on my network, I get the remote section. It shows a screenshot which I have to click refresh constantly to update, and has navigation buttons. I am not able to get feedback (what is playing) from topbar, looks like that is a known issue.

Is there a way to have it read the music database rather than have a screenshot? For that trouble, It is faster using pocket vnc. What I am looking to do is have something that I can access with pocket explorer similar to what webamp does with winamp. It lists songs in directories (or the playlist) and I can navigate in the pda alone, no need to see the screenshot which is slow and cumbersome.Sadly, I'm not able to program like this myself, but I can edit settings if someone knows a way to do this. It might be similar to what you have setup for guide data.

The reason this is important is it lets me control music from any room without needed to see a tv. Ideally, if I have visuals or a slideshow running, I could change songs in the background without interupting the htpc display.

Thanks

 

[RoyN]

Hi,

I'm looking for exactly the same thing as ZetaVu... basically, I want a PPC/Tablet to be used solely as a remote control...

It also needs to be webbrowser based (cause I'm using some other web elements in my setup - so the ppc app isnt suitable for my use).

Basically I want to be able to select media to play, stop media, etc.,etc... Similar to the web server in XBMC...

Also, one thing I like form the XBMC server is that I can have an interface for PPC and one for regular PCs, on the same server (basically the "webskin" is a set of pages it loads, so I can have http://myserver/ppc and /pc)...

One thing that the XBMC server lacks, imho, is the ability to "follow" my clicks, as a remote should, so basically even though I might be using the WebRemote, I still want to see on screen reactions to my clicks (except during fullscreen movie playbak, where I can have a "bar" on the PPC and fuulscreen video)...

Is it currently possible to send all these commands to MP through the current webinterface? Is it possible to obtain a media listing?


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On another note, my MPW stopped working, and it seems it was having path troubles, the {MPWebControl} variable wasnt being recognized, how do I fix it?

 

[samuel337]

Hi,

I'm looking for exactly the same thing as ZetaVu... basically, I want a PPC/Tablet to be used solely as a remote control...

It also needs to be webbrowser based (cause I'm using some other web elements in my setup - so the ppc app isnt suitable for my use).

Basically I want to be able to select media to play, stop media, etc.,etc... Similar to the web server in XBMC...

Also, one thing I like form the XBMC server is that I can have an interface for PPC and one for regular PCs, on the same server (basically the "webskin" is a set of pages it loads, so I can have http://myserver/ppc and /pc)...

One thing that the XBMC server lacks, imho, is the ability to "follow" my clicks, as a remote should, so basically even though I might be using the WebRemote, I still want to see on screen reactions to my clicks (except during fullscreen movie playbak, where I can have a "bar" on the PPC and fuulscreen video)...

Is it currently possible to send all these commands to MP through the current webinterface? Is it possible to obtain a media listing?


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On another note, my MPW stopped working, and it seems it was having path troubles, the {MPWebControl} variable wasnt being recognized, how do I fix it?

Soon, the music database will be exposed via the web service in MPW. Can't give you an exact date as it depends on my workload.

For your problem with MPW, try reinstalling it - the {MPWebControl} variable should be replaced during the installation with the path to your installation of MediaPortal.

Sam

 

[RoyN]

Weird, I tried re-installing but no luck... still same problem, then I just replaced by hand in php.ini and httpd.conf

Anywhere else to look?


In retrospect I do remember the program pathfix.exe giving some errors and being shutdown by windows during install.... I guess thats it

 

[RoyN]

Hi guys.. A bit frutstrated with the existing web-control options for MP I decided to do something...

I mainly wanted to be able to control MP from a pocketpc...

I also tested XLobby before I settled on MP, and they have a pretty nifty (even if innovative/strange) approach to webcontrol: a sort of "screenshot" page, clickable like an imagemap.

With this in mind, and the builtin ability (in MPW) to capture screenshots, I adapted the MPW slightly to include an additional page that brings up a screenshot, which you can click on to be able to use MP as if you were looking at the display.

Ideally one would probably want a "secondary" skin set to be able to get better readability on a PPC, also probably one would want to be able to have say a "control-only" screen when a vide is playing. None of this is currently supported, as all that I have is an exact screenshot of whatever is running on screen, on my webbrowser/ppc. This can then be clicked (it is an html imagemap) and the click is translated into an onscreen click.

One thing that I have put in so far is the ability to scale down the image for a smaller screen (and then re-scale the click location, so it clicks the appropriate location on screen - this is done by entering the "server" resolution, and the "client" resolution so that scaling can be done).

It isnt very cleanly coded at all, especially since I have no experience with webservices, even though I am a php programmer professionally...

I wouldnt mind, however, helping out with creating a webserver plugin similar to what is on the XBox. If someone can provide a clear and easy to follow tutorial on the webservices part (how to control/poll MP from a PHP script) I can probably help out.

Sorry for the long post. If anyone is interested I can post the small script and changes I made so you can try it out, other than that I just wanted to post it here to give/get ideas.

Thanks for all the developers of MP and MPW!

 

[MrSensitive]

Roy,

you might want to take a look over here:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=10414

 

[rtv]

Are you the Car-PC "Skin-Collector" RoyN? *g*

 

[RoyN]

Thats me :roll:

:lol:

 

[RoyN]

Roy,

you might want to take a look over here:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=10414

Hi m8, thanks for pointing that out... I have looked at it, but I want something Web-based... for one, I will be using WebPanels AND/OR PPCs, so limtiing myself to juist one platform is a no-no in my case...

And secondly, I am planning more devices to be controlled with web-interfaces, for example, using a web-interface it becomes extremely easy to put in ip-camera video, it becomes easy to develop "content" for the "remote" and so forth...

But thanks for pointing it out though... basically what I want to achieve is the same functionality of MPBlue, but without the limitiation of being made for 1 platform.

I might take a look at their plugin and how a web application could integrate into that.... 8) just thought about it ! thanks for helping bring out the idea