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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #50 on: June 03, 2014, 03:46:55 pm »

Couldn´t replicate, so I decided to simply delete the files and reinstall it. As I am pretty good in training for this app at the moment, it took only some minutes. All works now again...
Thanks!
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #51 on: June 10, 2014, 08:16:08 am »

New version 1.0.1.0

This adds 'Movies By Letter' menu option. (In addition to the existing 'Movies By Genre' menu option.)

There is a new (web)gizmo view required for this (see installation notes) and there is a new web.config option that points to this new view :

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<add key="mcwsmoviealphatoplevelname" value="Movies Alphabet" />



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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #52 on: June 13, 2014, 07:24:36 am »

New version 1.0.1.1

This adds a music search screen :



Music Search works differently from (web)gizmo :

The web application searches in artist name -> when found, it shows the artist image (with the artist name in 'bold') and clicking on the picture will drill down into the album list for that artist.
In addition, the web application also searches in album name AND track name -> when found, it shows the album image (with artist+album name) and clicking on the picture will drill down into the single album screen.

The results are limited to 50 artists and 50 albums and are sorted by artist name AND album name.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #53 on: June 15, 2014, 05:42:07 am »

new version 1.0.1.2

This adds a movie search screen :



The results are limited to 50 movies and are sorted by movie name.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #54 on: June 15, 2014, 06:12:42 am »

OPTIONALLY, This web application can be used over SSL using a reverse proxy in Internet Information Server:

In that case, It is assumed that you have your own domain name (e.g. myserver.com) and a valid SSL certificate for this domain (e.g. US$10/year) and have already set up this certificate in IIS.

In your internet router, you only need to forward port 443 to the server with IIS on it.
(port 80 and 52199 would not need to be forwarded anymore)

So that https://myserver.com works ok and shows the 'padlock' in the browser.

To set up a reverse proxy :

First, you need to install these Microsoft applications:

  • application request routing 3.0
  • IIS URL rewrite module 2
  • web farm framework
  • external cache version 1 for IIS 7

Some links on how to do this :

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=40813
http://blogs.technet.com/b/erezs_iis_blog/archive/2013/11/27/installing-arr-manually-without-webpi.aspx
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-request-routing
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite


BEFORE, web config looked something like :

<add key="mcwsserver"    value="http://myserver.com:52199/" />
<add key="mcwsimgserver" value="http://myserver.com:52199/" />

NOW, it is changed to :

<add key="mcwsserver"    value="https://myserver.com/jriverapi/" />
<add key="mcwsimgserver" value="https://myserver.com/jriverapi/" />

In IIS, you can now set up a reverse proxy by creating a directory :

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\jriverapi

In this directory, create a web.config file that looks something like :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="ReverseProxyInboundRule1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost:52199/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Note that 'localhost' assumes that you have media center running on the same pc as IIS and this media center instance is not a client of another media center instance running on another pc.
Otherwise, this has to be adjusted.


p.s. for Streaming audio to work, on IOS, I had to disable the disk cache :
Go To IIS manager :
-Select Server \ Application Request Routing cache
-Select Server Proxy Settings (on the right)
-Uncheck 'Enable Disk cache'
-Select Apply
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #55 on: June 17, 2014, 09:41:10 am »

new version 1.0.1.3

This improves performance of music/movie search screens.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #56 on: June 20, 2014, 01:26:19 am »

new version 1.0.1.3 (minor update)

This improves performance of music/movie search screens.

Works great! Thanks for update!
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #57 on: August 13, 2014, 04:33:49 am »

Dear “mhwlng”
I hope I'm right here. Or perhaps you just can help me ;-)

I have installed MC19 two times and I use it only for audio ( No video ectr.).
One on a laptop, a second on my HTPC which is connected to my HiFi.
I have to interact with a Flash Media based website ( www.digitalconcerthall.com). Because the HTPC has no keyboard and mouse I have to do it remote. I have tried it remote with the laptop MC19 but I cannot get the audio output on the HTPC.
With the Android Apps I have I cannot surfing’ the web, just interacting with the stored audio files.
Perhaps your “Media Center Remote Control Web Application” is a solution for my problem? Is it possible to use your tool as a remote Web surfing machine?
If yes, what have I to do?
Any other thoughts?

regards
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #58 on: August 13, 2014, 04:39:50 am »

Hello "High End", I don't think this application can help you. You should ask this question in the media center 19 forum.

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« Reply #59 on: August 13, 2014, 04:51:03 am »

High-End,
just load the MC library of your HTPC in the MC-copy on your laptop. This way you can play in an easy way the content from your HTPC either on your laptop, or Hi-Fi.

I play my videos stored on my HTPC and my audios stored in my laptop this way.

But as mhwing says - for detailed help better open a separate thread in the mc19 section.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #60 on: August 13, 2014, 10:05:22 am »

ok, thx
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #61 on: August 13, 2014, 02:43:51 pm »

mhwlng - nicely done!

I did find that I had to give the AppPool user write permission under Content/img, and that I had to give it write permission in the root of the web app long enough for it to create log.txt and a couple of xml files.  And I modified the log4net configuration to put the log file into a a subfolder.

I can report that it appears to work successfully with the browser in my Windows 8 phone and with FireFox.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #62 on: August 13, 2014, 02:46:37 pm »

Thanks for the info, good to know that it works on windows phone.

Note that you need permanent write access to those XML files in the root directory. They get updated frequently.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #63 on: August 17, 2014, 10:20:46 am »

new version 1.0.1.5

-LONG press/click (for about a second) or right click on a tv show poster/banner results in a popup with a description of the tv show.

(The information is read from tvdb and is cached, so the first time could take a few seconds.)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #64 on: August 19, 2014, 03:11:44 am »

Wow, nice looking interface!!
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #65 on: December 15, 2014, 01:17:33 pm »

new version 1.0.1.8

-Actors are now displayed on the tv show information popup. (long press or right click on tv show poster/banner)

Swipe left/right on the popup image, to scroll through the actors.



(The actor images are from http://thetvdb.com/)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #66 on: December 17, 2014, 08:51:45 am »

new version 1.0.1.9

-Actors are now displayed on the movie details screen.

Swipe left/right on the movie poster, to scroll through the actors. (Click on the movie poster to play the movie, as usual.)



(The actor images are from http://www.themoviedb.org/)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #67 on: February 04, 2015, 07:19:10 pm »

Hi,

First of all let me thank you for putting up your hard work in here for all of us to be used.
It is a really nice interface and I almost got it working.

The thing I cannot get to show is the Genre Images from flickr.
The genre.xml has no url's defined. If put in the url manually copied from the flickr url the size of the image changes but it still is blank.

If I set the add key = "....nameisgenre value"="False" the stacked images from JRiver are shown.

I do have the following errors in my log.
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ERROR 2015-02-05 11:56:55,760 CacheCallback - Error deleting C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\ : Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\' is denied.
ERROR 2015-02-05 11:57:09,032 CacheCallback - Error Loading C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\192.168.6.100\MC_Gizmo\GenrePics\www.flickr.com\photos\fiinix\6881788135\in\set-72157629331864211\ : The given path's format is not supported.
ERROR 2015-02-05 11:57:09,044 CacheCallback - Error deleting C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\192.168.6.100\MC_Gizmo\GenrePics\www.flickr.com\photos\fiinix\6881788135\in\set-72157629331864211\ : Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\192.168.6.100\MC_Gizmo\GenrePics\www.flickr.com\photos\fiinix\6881788135\in\set-72157629331864211\' is denied.
ERROR 2015-02-05 11:57:09,045 CacheCallback - Error Loading C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\www.flickr.com\photos\fiinix\7084382577\in\set-72157629331864211\ : An exception occurred during a WebClient request.
ERROR 2015-02-05 11:57:09,046 CacheCallback - Error deleting C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\www.flickr.com\photos\fiinix\7084382577\in\set-72157629331864211\ : Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\www.flickr.com\photos\fiinix\7084382577\in\set-72157629331864211\' is denied.
ERROR 2015-02-05 11:57:09,046 CacheCallback - Error Loading C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\ : The path is not of a legal form.
ERROR 2015-02-05 11:57:09,046 CacheCallback - Error deleting C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\ : Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MC_Gizmo\Content\img\' is denied.

The IIS_IUSER does have full control over the root folder and all of its sub folders, including the image folder
HCP version is 1.0.2.0
JRiver version is 19.0.155

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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #68 on: February 05, 2015, 02:52:41 am »

new version 1.0.2.1

- This fixes a problem with automatically downloading movie genre images from Flickr :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiinix/sets/72157629331864211/

(Flickr changed their API from http to https)

If you have problems with these images, delete genre.xml, after updating to 1.0.2.1.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #69 on: February 05, 2015, 07:51:16 pm »

Hi,

Thank you for your hard work and quick response. Your update is working and the Genre Picks are being displayed.

I still do have an error with (movie) files with the .iso format.  I suspect this has to do with some extension check/format check, returning a string error since the .iso is a Data Format Category inside JRiver.

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Exception Details: System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
I have a few comments that are not meant as critique but me just being enthusiastic about your product.

The site is working on both my Samsung Galaxy 10.1 Android 4.4.2 with Chrome, and also on my iPone 4s OS X 8.1 Safari. The TV-Shows banners are only showing up on the iPhone, and unfortunately not on the SG 10.1, in portrait mode.

If I go into the movie file on the iPhone, the cover art is being displayed in a (to) smaller size compared to the rest of the design (meaning control buttons and info column). On the SG 10.1 the cover art is filling up nicely with the rest of the design.

Is it possible to have the option to display the TV Shows in banner format and perhaps have the same thing for the movie genres as well? The banners takes up less space and are giving the viewer an easier overview of the complete collection (more info onto 1 screen). Maybe even have two columns on a bigger sized screen?

I have altered the Genre expression to use up to 3 genres per movie, so that movies can show up in more than 1 category.

Would it be possible to create and link to my own Genre Pictures. Due to varies user settings and movie collections my JRiver settings and your Genre collection are out of sync, and it would come in handy if I could add my own genres with display picks that suit my personal needs.

One other thing that would be great is to have more control function in the playing now section. Maybe replace the cover art with a control point for example; Audio, Sub Titles, Volume, Theatre view control.

I am using the Chorus web interface of XBMC, and that has a nice option to download the file. This is quit handy for mobile devices.

I hope I am not out of line here, but I appreciate your hard work and sharing this with us.
Big Thanks.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #70 on: February 06, 2015, 05:33:14 am »

new version 1.0.2.2

- New option in web.config :

  <add key="mcwstvshowbannermaxresolution" value="640" />

Increase the number, to show tv show banners in portrait mode on higher resolution devices. (e.g. Samsung Galaxy 10.1)

- Fixed problem where this error appeared, when height/width field was empty (e.g. for .iso files) :
  'System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.'

- To use your own movie genre images, you need to edit genre.xml

Originally, a movie genre looks something like :

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 <genre>
    <name>Action</name>
    <url>https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7055/6881788135_22622b0691_b.jpg</url>
    <timestamp>2015-02-05T09:41:17.7828567+01:00</timestamp>
  </genre>

Change it to something like :

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 <genre>
    <name>Action</name>
    <url>moviegenres/action.jpg</url>
    <timestamp>2999-02-05T09:41:17.7828567+01:00</timestamp>
  </genre>

So : Change the timestamp to far in the future and put your image in : .\Content\img\moviegenres\action.jpg

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Re: Cover art size problem on iPhone : I don't have access to an iPhone (4s), so I would need to see a screenshot ?

Re: Improving playing now screen and adding download option : I will take this under consideration, for a possible future release.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #71 on: February 07, 2015, 03:58:40 am »

Thanks Mate,

This is great. All functions are working.
I have to set the banner resolution to 820 on the Galaxcy Tab 10.1 Android 4.4.2.

Things are working fine on a Nokia 535 Win 8.1 Phone with internet explorer. Execpt that the playback control buttons don't show up. They all look like an empty square.

I have included  the screen shot from the iphone 4s osx 8.1 with safari.

Cheers.


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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #72 on: February 07, 2015, 04:10:37 am »

1)
re: font problem on windows 8 phone :

Add missing MIME Types in IIS for font files :

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15819717/font-awesome-not-displayed-on-windows-phone-8

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re: small iPhone cover art size:

The logic (for portrait orientation) is, to resize the image to fit vertically on the screen.
I can see, from your screenshot, that there is very little vertical room on the screen.
('css' pixels :  iPhone 4 : 320x480, compare iPhone 5 : 320x568, Samsung galaxy S4 : 360x640 (note: not the same as 'physical' pixels http://mydevice.io/devices/))

So, I'm afraid that I can't change the way it looks on your iPhone 4s.

Safari on ios (just like chrome on android), has an option 'add to homescreen'.
This option adds an icon to the home screen, which always shows the web page full screen, which gives you more vertical height. and the cover art will be bigger.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #73 on: February 07, 2015, 11:04:41 am »

new version 1.0.2.3

- This adds 'Music By Genre' screen.

There is a new (web)gizmo view required for this (see installation notes) and there is a new web.config option that points to this new view :

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<add key="mcwsmusicgenrestoplevelname" value="Music Genres" />

Note that the default jriver music genre images can be replaced with custom genre .jpg images. (see installation notes)

For example, using music genre images like http://www.allmusic.com/genres :



More music genre images can be found here :

https://www.flickr.com/groups/itunesgenres/pool/

https://github.com/bartowski/skin.night/tree/master/extras/musicgenres

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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #74 on: February 08, 2015, 03:48:44 am »

new version 1.0.2.4

- This adds 'Music By Style' screen.   (optional, disabled by default)

There is a new (web)gizmo view required for this (see installation notes) and there is a new web.config option that points to this new view :

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<add key="mcwsmusicstylestoplevelname" value="Music Styles" />
<add key="mcwsmusicshowstyles" value="True" />





See installation notes for more information.

I inserted the style information from allmusic.com into my music album tags :

http://www.allmusic.com/advanced-search

NOTE that this requires the creation of a new 'Styles' database field (Data Type : List).
The existing 'Style' field is not suitable to contain the allmusic.com style information, because it can only contain a single style.

On allmusic.com, there are a small number of Music Genres (see previous post) and for each Music Genre, there are a number of Music Styles :

Genre : Blues -> Style : Acoustic Blues, East Coast Blues, New Orleans Blues etc.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #75 on: February 09, 2015, 08:39:39 pm »

1)
re: font problem on windows 8 phone :

I don't have a windows phone, so I can't test anything, but here are several tips : (In the last post, they suggest to add/check MIME types in IIS)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15819717/font-awesome-not-displayed-on-windows-phone-8

2)
re: small iPhone cover art size:

The logic (for portrait orientation) is, to resize the image to fit vertically on the screen.
I can see that there is very little vertical room on the screen.


('css' pixels :  iPhone 4 : 320x480, compare iPhone 5 : 320x568, Samsung galaxy S4 : 360x640 (note: not the same as 'physical' pixels http://mydevice.io/devices/))

So, I'm afraid that I can't change the way it looks on your iPhone 4s.

I believe that safari on ios, has an option 'add to homescreen'.
This option adds an icon to the home screen, which always shows the web page full screen, which gives you more vertical height. and the cover art will be a little bit bigger.
(I only tested this on an iPad mini)

All working fine now.
Windows Font missing confirmed fix.
Iphone 4S Full Screen confirmed fix.

You are doing a great job here. Thanks.

I haven't tried the next update yet, but sure will. I am trying to get my head around the Gizmo, and Your interface, and start to incorporate some of my own preferences. You are making my life easy by doing 90% of the work for me.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #76 on: February 10, 2015, 01:53:51 pm »

This may be a stupid question, but can one listen to music on the device that is running "Media Center Remote control Application" in a browser (Desktop web browser,  tablet web browser,  phone web browser) or does this application serve as only a remote control to play music/videos on the device running media center (my home computer)?
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #77 on: February 10, 2015, 01:58:52 pm »

This application is a remote control.

If you want to play music on your phone/tablet/etc., there are plenty of other options.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #78 on: February 10, 2015, 02:22:29 pm »

mhwlng... Thanks for the response. :(
I have not come across any good options for playing in my web browser on my work PC without installing media center on them.
It appears as though WebGizmo is going to stay bare bones as is(unless you can customize it yourself) and does not have any of the advanced functionality that your application has.
For example WebGizmo does not even offer the option to shuffle playlists or skip to next or previous track options  :-\

Good luck with further development of this app. It looks awesome so far :)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #79 on: February 14, 2015, 06:40:46 am »

new version 1.0.2.5

- This adds 'Movies By Actor' screen.  

There is a new (web)gizmo view required for this (see installation notes) and there is a new web.config option that points to this new view :

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<add key="mcwsmovieactorstoplevelname" value="Movie Actors" />



(The actor images are from http://www.themoviedb.org/)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #80 on: February 15, 2015, 12:57:49 pm »

new version 1.0.2.6

- This adds 'Movies By Director' screen.  

There is a new (web)gizmo view required for this (see installation notes) and there is a new web.config option that points to this new view :

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<add key="mcwsmoviedirectorstoplevelname" value="Movie Directors" />

- Revised resizing method for Movie Actor + Movie Director images from themoviedb.org to 2:3 aspect ratio :
  To prevent squashed faces, a black bar is now added, at the bottom of the image, when necessary.
  (Delete tmdbperson.xml, to resize existing images using this new method.)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #81 on: March 07, 2015, 06:51:23 am »

new version 1.0.3.1

- Added mute, subtitles, audio stream buttons to control screen
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #82 on: April 08, 2015, 08:25:47 am »

My favorite user interface :

A docked Nexus 10 tablet, in landscape mode, on a small side table next to my sofa, to remote control media center on the TV in my living room.

And a Logitech MX Air gyroscopic mouse, to occasionally control media center directly on the TV.





The stand is the "Cooler Master Wave Stand" :  http://www.coolermaster.com/mobile/stands-and-lap-desks-series/wave/
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #83 on: April 18, 2015, 09:47:09 am »

new version 1.0.3.3

- Added music download option (disabled by default, see installation notes) :
  LONG press/click (for about a second) or right click on the album cover and a zip file is created, containing all the album music files and Folder.jpg.

- in addition to LONG press/click (for about a second) also allow right click on tv show image to show tv show information popup.

- Optimized music fan art caching, so browsing will be faster in certain situations.

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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #84 on: April 24, 2015, 01:42:23 pm »

This web app looks great!

Just because your app is free. Any interest makes this app open source?
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #85 on: April 24, 2015, 01:44:15 pm »

Any interest makes this app open source?

No, Sorry. I have no plans to make the application open source.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #86 on: May 17, 2015, 08:14:02 am »

new version 1.0.3.4

- fixed a problem with the 'Movies By Actor' image caching mechanism.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #87 on: May 24, 2015, 09:12:16 am »

new version 2.0.0.0

- major rewrite :

The application now makes use of the Angularjs framework.
and is now a 'Single Page Application' (SPA).

Note that the individidual screens look the same as before.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #88 on: May 30, 2015, 09:32:32 am »

new version 2.0.1.0

- Various bugfixes

- It is now possible to play music inside the web browser :

Change localplay to True in web.config

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<add key="localplay" value="True" />

Now, all music will be played inside the web browser, using the html5 <audio> tag.
The music will keep playing, while navigating to different screens
and the 'Playing' and 'Control' screens will now handle the local playlist.

Tested so far, while playing MP3s, on :
-PC : Chrome / Internet Explorer 11 / Firefox
-IOS 8.3 : Safari on IPad Mini Retina
-Android 5.1.1 : Chrome on Nexus 7 and Nexus 10
-Android 5.0.1 : Chrome on Samsung Galaxy S4
-Android 4.4.4 : Chrome on Galaxy Note GT-N7000 with Omni Rom
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Re: Media Center Remote Control Web Application
« Reply #89 on: May 31, 2015, 04:21:22 am »

new version 2.0.1.1

- Bugfixes (playing now screen)
- Added local volume slider on control screen
- Local volume is now remembered
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Re: Media Center Remote Control and Streaming Web Application
« Reply #90 on: June 06, 2015, 03:29:53 am »

new version 2.0.1.2

- Switched to new toolkit for TheMovieDb, which implements API call throttling.
  This fixes a problem where some actor images could be missing on the Movie Actors screen.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control and Streaming Web Application
« Reply #91 on: June 06, 2015, 12:42:56 pm »

I looked into the current state of Web Speech API (speech recognition and text-to-speech inside web browser)

I made some proof-of-concept code, that allows something like this :

I say "Computer" ->
<- device says "Yes?"
<- mute local/remote audio

I say "Next" ->
<- device says "Next"
<- select next local/remote track
<- unmute local/remote audio

This works ok in the latest chrome on PC (>=43.0.2357.81) , however there are some issues :

1) it ONLY works when accessing the web server using HTTPS. So you will need an SSL certificate. (Which I have.)

2) It doesn't work at all on IOS. (chrome or safari)

3) It does work in Chrome on Nexus 7 / 10 with Android 5.1.1 however :

    -It doesn't play well with the html5 audio tag.
     So, you can really only use it when controlling media center and not when playing audio locally.

    -The speech recognition engine beeps a lot.

    -When the device screen blanks, the speech recognition engine is automatically shut down.
     So, you will have to pick the device up and press some buttons, to get it to recognize speech again.
     Then, you might as well press the 'next' button on the screen, anyway, instead of saying 'next'...

4) All your speech is sent to google servers. Which could be a privacy issue...


So....

After some tests, I abandoned this functionality again, for now....

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Re: Media Center Remote Control and Streaming Web Application
« Reply #92 on: August 08, 2015, 04:59:14 am »

new version 2.0.1.3

minor update, no new functionality

- compiled with latest version of development tools and various libraries.
- updated to latest version of various javascript frameworks (e.g. angular)

Tested with Media Center 21, IIS on windows 10 pro and Edge browser
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Re: Media Center Remote Control and Streaming Web Application
« Reply #93 on: August 26, 2015, 08:52:05 am »

new version 2.0.1.4

- Flickr api key had expired, so automatic download of movie genre image had stopped working.
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Re: Media Center Remote Control and Streaming Web Application
« Reply #94 on: December 05, 2015, 04:19:25 am »

new version 2.0.1.5

reverted angularjs to older version : 1.4.3
newer angularjs versions cause problems in bootstrap drop down menu (vertical scrollbar is gone...)
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Re: Media Center Remote Control and Streaming Web Application
« Reply #95 on: January 05, 2021, 05:46:54 pm »

Is this app still happening?

Is there a simpletons step by step on how to set this up on my windows device?

i read this over and admit i feel dumb as cement

Cheers
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