Is there any interest in a touchpad plex?

[jerryn]

Hi all,
So some of you might have heard of HP's late tablet. You also might have heard that if your lucky you can snag one for 100 dollars making it a great deal. After glancing over the SDK it seems pretty simple to program on, looks like its literally just java script. I was wondering who else on the forum might have one of these, because I might take the time to write a plex client for it (I have been saying that I would write some sort of plex client for a while so no garentees it will ever get done) and was wondering if anyone besides myself would actually use it.

Count me in!!! I am interested

[jerryn]

If you have a documented client API I can write a webos interface.

We can test with web browser commands stuffed into the url too.

[TomFrost]

You don’t want to use the SDK for this one. While super handy for whipping up quick apps, I’m all kinds of doubting that it would give you the kind of speed you need, unless you can somehow use the SDK API to request the stream from the PMS in H.264 and then pass the stream itself off to the native movie player.



A safer bet might be to go the PDK route, and base your client on the actual C++ code. WebOS uses most of the standard *nix libs out of the box, so porting the existing source might be a lot easier than trying to write something new.



Either way you go with it, best of luck and I’d love to see this happen

[jerryn]

If you want access to your plexserver NOW on your Touchpad Install plex-over! Enable PHP for your web browser. sudo bash in a shell, go to /private/config and edit the apache2 config file. uncomment the # before loading the php5 module. Follow these instructions:



https://github.com/ronan-gloo/plex-over



And WHAM! Full access to PLEX. One work in progress is transcoding your personal library but in between what I am doing and ronan, we’ll get it running. The Touchpad browser has a robust movie player that’s all I got to say.

[jerryn]

If the folks here at plex send me the source to the Android Plex client, I will get started on the PDK client…

For now I’ve got the plex-over php app rocking! Awesome job Ronan!

[penskyc]

jerryn, for plex over do we need to be running like mamp or something similar in order to use?

[buser]

I would freaking love you for life if you brought Plex to webOS

[latempete]

If you want access to your plexserver NOW on your Touchpad Install plex-over! Enable PHP for your web browser. sudo bash in a shell, go to /private/config and edit the apache2 config file. uncomment the # before loading the php5 module. Follow these instructions:

https://github.com/ronan-gloo/plex-over

And WHAM! Full access to PLEX. One work in progress is transcoding your personal library but in between what I am doing and ronan, we'll get it running. The Touchpad browser has a robust movie player that's all I got to say.

WOW! I started to try this but it is too much for me... I have very little (practically no) programming experience.

I have been able to use the KalemSoft Media Player with the KalemSoft Media Streamer to view most of my videos on my TP. (Flash video doesn't show up for some reason.) Beyond that I can browse pics and music with BHomePro using TVmobili on my Mac. The problem is I have THREE media servers running on my Mac. The same one I use for everything... Having a just one server program would rule. :)

[futureboy]

I just got a 32GB touchpad and would love to have it a PLEX client. I may someday move to Android but I’m actually kind of liking WebOS, at least for now. PLEX would be a killer app for this thing, so far I just use it for web browsing and kindle.

[cfmjohn]

Another yes please for a WebOS Touchpad client!

[chadilak]

Most definitely would be nice to have Plex on my touchpad!

[me2621a]

Ok, lots of interest is great, now I just have to motivate myself to do it. My plan when I get around to experimenting with the code will be to build a interface probably in the sdk, and have that app hand the stream off to the built in video player (which is possible and supposably easy to do). I’ll keep you guys posted as a begin to make progress.

[hd1080]

Ok, lots of interest is great, now I just have to motivate myself to do it. My plan when I get around to experimenting with the code will be to build a interface probably in the sdk, and have that app hand the stream off to the built in video player (which is possible and supposably easy to do). I'll keep you guys posted as a begin to make progress.

b0bben is already working on it see http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/29910-webos-client/

[seobts]

That’s good. I’ve checked it and I found that it’s interseting.