Any takers to port Mediafrontpage?

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XBMC "dashboard" of sorts
I just saw this over at XBMC...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=83304

Pretty sweet idea. Compiles information from XBMC, Sickbeard, Sabnzbd, etc. Any talented programmers feel like adapting this to work with Plex?
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What did you have in mind? I am not claiming to be a talented developer, just curious. It seems o me that MediaFrontPage is a web-based app. There are now (unsupported) plugins for SickBeard and CouchPotato. I guess, what I’m wondering is, in an ideal world how would you envision this ‘port’ looking?

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I like the general idea of this - though I think a web front end is the wrong way to go personally.



I’d much prefer to see someone tackle this same type of idea but bring it into Plex itself. I think quite a few people, myself included, have dreamed of a functional info screen in Plex with various panels, similar in functionality to dashboard widgets. For me, I think that would bring way more value having that kind of information on the TV screen - we already have easy access to it via the web.

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Just spitballing here, I have no idea if this is possible or how it might be accomplished. It would be pretty cool if some sort of widget dashboard like this could be used as a backdrop for the homescreen.



I’d imagine if it were possible, it would need to be customized (layout, etc) based on the skin in use. Otherwise different portions of the dashboard might be blocked from view based on skin selection.



Another way it might work would be implement a “widget framework” in Plex. We already have weather and rss widgets. If it were (relatively) simple for the community to create and share widgets for the homescreen, each user could pick and choose their own custom info display.

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MediaFrontPage is totally separate from xbmc. It does not run behind xbmc's web server. If you wanted to use it you could easily remove the xbmc widgets and just use the Sabnzbd, SickBeard, rss and hard drive ones. In terms of making a PLEX widget to use in it, I'm not sure what PLEX has in comparison to xbmc's json server but I'm sure it would be possible for someone to do.

I'm not sure about PLEX but xbmc already has widget type things on the home page showing recent episodes etc and plugins allow viewing/controlling sabnzbd. Thats not what MediaFrontPage is for. Similarly, it does not aim to replace the existing web interfaces for programs, in fact the navigation bar at the top allows to to easily access them. MediaFrontPage simply brings all the SickBeard, Sabnzbd, Couch Potato web interfaces together and at the same time gives you a summary page of them at the front. Basically it is a dashboard which allows you to view what your media-center is doing from anywhere in the world.
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I tried it too, but it’s not really what I’m looking for. I’d want something (maybe a Plex extension) that runs on my server (where my movies are) and is reachable 24/7 and contains all my movies and tvshows in some sort of list. I want to be able to see if I’ve watched them and mark them as watched (because this is a pain in the ass in Plex)…

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http://hybridlogic.co.uk/code/standalone/plex-export/

Screens here: http://proto.jfremy.fr:32401/images/plexjs.png

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