Yesterday and today I have scripted a small web interface for remote control of XBMC using its HTTP API. (BTW, That API could really use a redesign!)
It’s actually just a page showing a screen shot and the name of the file that is currently playing, together with some commands to remote control XBMC.
Available commands are pause/resume, stop, play another file, and shutdown.
I also implemented support for showing notifications on the XBMC screen, which gave me an idea:
The Google Calendar can e-mail reminders for appointments. If XBMC is running, the reminder could be shown as a notification on the XBMC monitor.
I was just about to start implementing this calendar-reminder-in-XBMC when I reminded myself that there are many other small and big projects that would be more valuable for me. But instead of throwing this idea right down the trashcan I decided to blog about it first. Done!
Now I’ll spend some valuable time with my son!
Hi there,
Would you make this public? I would be interested in something like this.
Thanks.
Dave
You can actually pull it from //github.com/twogood/xbmcweb – but beware that it assumes that it can resolve “xbox” in DNS. The most interesting file is probably
application/services/Xbmc.php.