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- freezy - 2009-09-20

Can you add an issue directly at the Google Code page? That avoids getting lost in this thread.


- coredalae - 2009-09-21

freezy Wrote:Can you add an issue directly at the Google Code page? That avoids getting lost in this thread.

yea sorry, just not used to google code Smile


- the_alien - 2009-09-25

I had a great idea about a remote to control xbmc through android... guess what I found Wink

Checking it out right now and I think it HAS to be in the market. If you don't want to pay to get registered as a developer, I'm willing to release it with my account. Contact me if...

Will have a look into the source code too and check if I could help.

/e: I can't get the remote to connect to xbmc. It works from my Mac with the webinterface, so it can't be xbmcs fault.
With this I have a few feature requests:
-Log entries
-Reconnect button
-Better error messages
Wink


- seaweeduk - 2009-09-27

Hi firstly thanks so much for this app, I found it by way of a google search after getting annoyed with the current market based app. Unfortunately I have been unable to do anything other that uses the media server and have been getting force closes whenever I try to do so. I understand the force close is because of connection problems, I know this is not an issue with any of the settings I have entered. The remote functions all work correctly for me.

I suspect it may be something to do with my network setup itself, my xbox sits behind a router running tomato and acting as a wireless bridge, my main router is my wireless access point and DHCP server both routers are on the same subnet.

I have tried entering port forwarding entries on both routers for the event server port, and have also tried placing the xbox in the DMZ of the wireless bridge to see if this will fix the problem without any joy. I have experienced the same problem before when trying to use AndroMote and I'm really anxious to get it sorted as it's very frustrating currently.

Any help anyone could give would be much appreciated. I've been looking for an android development project to help out with and this looks like something which would definitely interest me and I'd love to be able to do anything I can for this one.


- zippelmann - 2009-09-27

seaweeduk Wrote:Unfortunately I have been unable to do anything other that uses the media server and have been getting force closes whenever I try to do so. I understand the force close is because of connection problems, I know this is not an issue with any of the settings I have entered. The remote functions all work correctly for me.

Hello, the media functions use the http-server. The remote uses the event-server. Did you control the settings ?


- freezy - 2009-09-27

Make sure you're forwarding the UDP port and not the TCP port for the event server. We'll think about a way to avoid these crashes obviously.

Cheers,
Freezy.


- zippelmann - 2009-09-27

freezy Wrote:Make sure you're forwarding the UDP port and not the TCP port for the event server. We'll think about a way to avoid these crashes obviously.

He sad, that the remote works, but the media functions not. I thought, that the media functions use the http-server. Is it wrong ?


- freezy - 2009-09-27

seaweeduk Wrote:Unfortunately I have been unable to do anything other that uses the media server and have been getting force closes whenever I try to do so.

seaweeduk Wrote:The remote functions all work correctly for me.

Maybe you could specify what exactly doesn't work? The "remote control", meaning the graphical implementation of the Xbox DVD dongle, uses the event server, by UDP.

All the rest, listing media, what's playing etc uses the web server, which uses TCP.


- the_alien - 2009-09-27

Maybe you could help me as well.
The Remote itself is working. I can connect to the eventserver and control it with the xBox dongle interface. But it seems like the other functions can't reach the http api. The IP is correct, the port is correct, I can reach the webinterface with my Mac through WLAN.
Any ideas what is going wrong?


- seaweeduk - 2009-09-27

freezy Wrote:Maybe you could specify what exactly doesn't work? The "remote control", meaning the graphical implementation of the Xbox DVD dongle, uses the event server, by UDP.

All the rest, listing media, what's playing etc uses the web server, which uses TCP.

Hmm looks like it must be TCP having the problems then, I've done a bit more reading and apparently a router setup in the same way mine is is never a completely transparent proxy. Problems occur because the MAC addresses of all the machines behind the bridge router are not visible to the rest of the network. I think I am going to have to rethink my wireless network it's a shame WDS doesn't work properly against different branded routers.

I'll persevere when I get some free time, I'm sure the problem won't occur if I put both routers on separate subnets and both acting as gateways, just means messing up some other aspects of my network.

I love the remote even without all the other functions I can't tell you how satisfying it is to use after being stuck on the XBMC/Boxee remote for a few months!

EDIT: Interestingly I can access the web server without any problems at all from my phone which indicates there isnt a problem connectingHuh


- krl69 - 2009-09-27

How do I select the whole album in the music part and not just one simple song? If a do a skip to the next song, it doesn't work.


- seaweeduk - 2009-09-28

the_alien Wrote:Maybe you could help me as well.
The Remote itself is working. I can connect to the eventserver and control it with the xBox dongle interface. But it seems like the other functions can't reach the http api. The IP is correct, the port is correct, I can reach the webinterface with my Mac through WLAN.
Any ideas what is going wrong?

Sounds like my problem might not be network based after all. Are there any ways to troubleshoot things under linux? The web interface works from my phone but not through the remote.


- topfs2 - 2009-09-28

krl69 Wrote:How do I select the whole album in the music part and not just one simple song? If a do a skip to the next song, it doesn't work.

You can't from the simple file view, added to feature request.
Thx!


- krl69 - 2009-09-28

topfs2 Wrote:You can't from the simple file view, added to feature request.
Thx!

Is there an advanced view then Huh


WOL Patch for the new UI - NetHunter - 2009-09-28

I made a new patch, that shows a different menu if XBMC Remote can't connect to the server. The menu includes a "Reconnect" and "Power On" button if it's defined in Settings. I even made icons for them, in the style of the new icons.

Clicking on "Power On", sends a wake-on-lan packet to the machine, and waits for a predefined amount of time (default is 40 seconds), for XBMC to boot and startup, before trying to reconnect again. Been using this version for a couple of days now, and it works very fine.

Also, I changed the way "Quit" in the menu works, to actually quit the application, and not just go to the background.

Known issue - after going into Settings, changing settings and clicking "Reconnect", it still tries to reconnect to the old settings.

The wake-on-lan code is based on the code from here: http://www.jibble.org/wake-on-lan/
Patch is available here: http://code.google.com/p/android-xbmcremote/issues/detail?id=7