[mythtv-users] MobileMyth Web Frontend Released!

[Jon Heizer]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Jon Heizer <jheizer at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Michael Watson <
> michael at thewatsonfamily.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On 4/01/2013 1:31 PM, Jon Heizer wrote:
>>
>>> Welcome everyone!  I am finally at a point where I am ready to release
>>> the first public version of MobileMyth (http://www.mobilemyth.net/).
>>>  It is a web based MythTV frontend designed to work on mobile devices
>>> taking advantage of the HLS streaming.  This all started a few weeks ago as
>>> a way for my wife to be able to have her tv shows available while feeding
>>> our new born on multiple devices.  I wanted something that was easy for her
>>> to use and I had the ability to easily fix/upgrade.
>>>
>>> As of this point, recording and video stream has been implemented.
>>>  Recordings can be viewed by date or show.  Organizing Videos into sub
>>> folders have not been implemented.  I tried to use cover/fan art to make it
>>> all look a little nicer. Like the ipad app, HLS is highly supported on ios
>>> while at the same time android requires a 3rd party player like Dice.  My
>>> Galaxy S3 with the latest update can play the stream in the native player
>>> though.
>>>
>>> The site is written in asp.net <http://asp.net> but is fully supported
>>> under mono (and that is how I run it).  You can find the install
>>> instructions here http://www.mobilemyth.net/**index.php/install-**
>>> instructions/<http://www.mobilemyth.net/index.php/install-instructions/>and will see installing it looks just like installing a php based site.
>>>  You just have to install mono like you would php.  All configuration of
>>> the site itself is via browser.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have uploaded a handful of screenshots to the project's site.
>>> http://www.mobilemyth.net/ So you can see the basics.
>>>
>>> I hope you find this useful and you can expect more updates over the
>>> coming weeks.  After 9+ years of enjoying MythTV I hope this project is my
>>> way of giving something back to the community.
>>>
>>> Jon Heizer
>>>
>>>  Well done.  Install was easy and painless, and it worked first time.  I
>> had my doubts watching the large list of dependencies for mono where
>> installing
>> Fantastic.  Works well.
>>
>> Does it have the ability to show the files already transcoded?  So you
>> can easily come back to something you were watching before.
>> Do the transcoded files get cleaned up automatically, or do they need to
>> be managed?
>>
>> Developers, as more frontends emerge that take advantage of the HLS
>> streaming, it would be ideal if the transcode jobs ran through the
>> jobqueue, so slave backends take on some of the transcoding work, possibly
>> with a higher priority than user jobs and transcoding.
>>
>> Michael Watson
>>
>>
> Yeah they package every little library individually so while it looks like
> a huge mess it really is not too bad.  Glad the install was a breeze.
>
> Right now if you hit delete from the Viewing page it deletes the recording
> and the livestream.  On the individual recording page if a transcode is in
> progress or complete it will show there.  Right now it only shows the
> first.  I am working on better support of multiple devices with multiple
> resolution settings.  Hence the Use Any Stream check box on the FE settings
> as a phone may not care it has a 1080p recording as long as you are on the
> local network even though it is overkill.  Also next version will have a
> page in the settings that'll show all streams and the ability to delete
> them. (Basically the :6544 page duplicated)
>

Well this is going to change soon.  I just finished url rewriting +
proxying all mythtv backend requests though MobileMyth.  This means as of
the next release your phone/tablet will ONLY need to be able to access your
webserver.  Makes public use a piece of cake.  I'll release it in a few
days ones it has had a bit of WAF testing. :)

Jon
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