Great implementation. I read through all of the requests and am very excited to see the Live TV feature of XBMC come to RasPlex.
Here is my issue/request:
There is a remote control app for Android called Yatse. It works fine on RaspBMC. It sees RasPlex but once connected when I try to use the controls none of them change anything in RasPlex. Could you look into why the app works on a Vanilla XBMC build but not RasPlex?
Yatse is a great app!
I don’t know the App but the only difference between PlexHT and XBMC regarding remote control should be the port used to listen for requests.
Try check if the app relolves the Bonjour service correctly or set the port manually to 3005 and 9090 (JSON-RPC) or 9778 for UDP based commands.
Dale,
I found huge performance increases when i have OpenElec use a usb drive with an ext4 partition as its disk. (modify cmdline.txt, specifically change disk=**** to disk=/dev/sda1). Besides the read/write performance increase from an SD Card to a USB disk (even using a class 10 SD Card), you can more reliably overclock the RPi because the main constraint on the overclocking in the first place seems to be SD write corruption.
I assume this will be possible in Rasplex considering it's built on OpenElec?
Have you tried this at all in your development?
Keep up the good work!
I also vote for a USB install. Raspbmc also works faster off of a USB drive.
It looks like OpenELEC 3.0 get's an installer soon - thus we might allow USB installs too (if OpenELEC has RPi support for this feature).
First off, my hat's off to you guys for making this happen. It looks as if I may finally find something useful for my pi to do!
I don't have a feature request per se, but if I was in charge of the project, I would focus my efforts on making the experience as smooth as possible rather than adding features and supporting new things. As it is now, the menus are very slow and laggy. I don't know the ins and outs of Plex or what the pi is capable of and maybe what we have today is close to as fast as it will get, but I doubt it. What are your thoughts on this?
Would a custom skin that strips out a bunch of the animations and fanart and stuff improve the responsiveness?
Once again, thank you.
Cheers,
Rickard
First off, my hat's off to you guys for making this happen. It looks as if I may finally find something useful for my pi to do!
I don't have a feature request per se, but if I was in charge of the project, I would focus my efforts on making the experience as smooth as possible rather than adding features and supporting new things. As it is now, the menus are very slow and laggy. I don't know the ins and outs of Plex or what the pi is capable of and maybe what we have today is close to as fast as it will get, but I doubt it. What are your thoughts on this?
Would a custom skin that strips out a bunch of the animations and fanart and stuff improve the responsiveness?
Once again, thank you.
Cheers,
Rickard
If you don't think that a Smooth UI experience is my top priority, you are wrong : ) - it's just not as easy as it seems. The problem isn't actually the Skin, it's the logic supporting it.
We have a solution in the works, it's just not ready yet. Recent changes (0.1.30) have also made some substantial improvements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUQ9gtndUw
If you don't think that a Smooth UI experience is my top priority, you are wrong : ) - it's just not as easy as it seems. The problem isn't actually the Skin, it's the logic supporting it.
We have a solution in the works, it's just not ready yet. Recent changes (0.1.30) have also made some substantial improvements. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUQ9gtndUw
I have to confess. The last version I tried was 0.1.27 because after that, there hasn't been mention of any UI speed improvements in the release thread so I assumed nothing had been done in that department. I will definitely check out 0.1.31 tonight. I'm also looking forward to any future updates.
Is it possible to enable high resolution fan art? I've had a look through guisettings.xml and couldn't find a setting to enable this. I remember in very early versions of rasplex you had an option to enable fanouts and high resolutions (i think?), perhaps you could reintroduce those menu options?
Hi there,
Congrats for the job already done, and cheer up for what remains :)
When you have some free time, I would suggest so integrate an iperf client in Rasplex!!
Valyno
Is it possible to enable high resolution fan art? I've had a look through guisettings.xml and couldn't find a setting to enable this. I remember in very early versions of rasplex you had an option to enable fanouts and high resolutions (i think?), perhaps you could reintroduce those menu options?
Not yet. But high quality graphics should come back once the caching issue is solved (work in progress).
When you have some free time, I would suggest so integrate an iperf client in Rasplex!!
Valyno
iperf and many more tools are part of the development builds.
(Dev-builds are not that up to date currently but this will probably change in the future)
Thanks for an awesome job so far. 8 months later, I've got something to do with my Pi. :D
I also vote for a USB install. Raspbmc also works faster off of a USB drive.
A +1 from me too. I only have a class 4 SD card on which it's quite sluggish. I imagine a USB stick/HDD would improve the performance a lot. If it can be done already, can someone give me some instructions/pointers/links etc.?
Thanks!
While playing today with rasplex, I could not find how to configure the audio output so that when playing music it could use a different device than when playing video content.
I seem to remember that XBMC allowed you to do this kind of configuration, and it makes sense when the output device for video content is a TV, but for audio it is a "nicer" piece of equipment (a USB dac for instance). It would not matter too much if TV return channels kept the original resolution sent to them by the raspi, but, at least in my case, they down-sample the audio LPCM streams to 48K
I have an Idea for the Future. I have an Server and 4 Raspberry Pis with Rasplex. But i must go to my Server and turn it on to watch an Movie or Listing to Music. To let the Server on 24/7 a Week, i not a Millonair. ;D
I miss a Wake on Lan Function for example the Plex Addon for XBMC has this. Is were Great, good for Energy Saving and the Nature.
I Hope you understand my bad English, i am from Germany.
I have an Idea for the Future. I have an Server and 4 Raspberry Pis with Rasplex. But i must go to my Server and turn it on to watch an Movie or Listing to Music. To let the Server on 24/7 a Week, i not a Millonair. ;D
I miss a Wake on Lan Function for example the Plex Addon for XBMC has this. Is were Great, good for Energy Saving and the Nature.
I Hope you understand my bad English, i am from Germany.
Thank you, but i use Windows 8 with UEFI Bios (Fast Boot in 5 Seconds and you can look in plex). For example my Rasplex can send a Wake on Lan signal to my Server with MAC Adress or IP, the server starts in maybe 6 Seconds. That were great an simple for all my Family, because any one can start a Raspberry Pi but not all can use windows 8 and many other Problems. My Children can do its alone with siimple start raspberry pi. that is what i want. :D
Thank you, but i use Windows 8 with UEFI Bios (Fast Boot in 5 Seconds and you can look in plex). For example my Rasplex can send a Wake on Lan signal to my Server with MAC Adress or IP, the server starts in maybe 6 Seconds. That were great an simple for all my Family, because any one can start a Raspberry Pi but not all can use windows 8 and many other Problems. My Children can do its alone with siimple start raspberry pi. that is what i want. :D
Feel free to implement this via the autostart.sh script and share it here or create a wiki page
I'll put my +1 down for USB launcher as well, saves me using my voice recorder as a SD card reader when I want to make changes.
Don't know how possible this is but here goes:
To cut down on load times/performance issues why not get rid of MediaStream as a theme. There'd have to be a different theme out there (or someone would be able to build one) that doesn't have the fancy transition effects or high-quality images embedded in the theme. Maybe something more basic, flat that can take the load off the hardware while still being usable.
Would this work?
I'll put my +1 down for USB launcher as well, saves me using my voice recorder as a SD card reader when I want to make changes.
Don't know how possible this is but here goes:
To cut down on load times/performance issues why not get rid of MediaStream as a theme. There'd have to be a different theme out there (or someone would be able to build one) that doesn't have the fancy transition effects or high-quality images embedded in the theme. Maybe something more basic, flat that can take the load off the hardware while still being usable.
Would this work?
They are working on refining the skin as we speak to be efficient on the Raspberry Pi.
They are working on refining the skin as we speak to be efficient on the Raspberry Pi.
thanks mate, really digging the performance boost in 0.1.35!
