RasPlex Remote Control Android App (beta)

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Hello I recently finished writing my first Android app. It’s really just a reskinned and html5 wrapped version of the RasPlex Remote web page from ErrorFreeIT. The description from the app follows:

_"This is an unofficial app for Plex Media Server and RasPlex written by myself. What I’ve done is to reskin the remote control web app for Rasplex originally found at http://errorfreeit.com.au/blog/2014/1/4/free-online-rasplex-remote.
Changes:

  1. You no longer have to re enter your ip addresses for rasplex and your server each time you use the remote.
  2. Added ability to show/hide server/client input area.
  3. Added buttons in place of the original image overlay."_

The only devices I have been able to test it on so far have been a Nexus 5, and a Kindle Fire HD. If you run into any issues please let me know. At some point I’ll release it on Google Play, for now you can side load it after downloading it from here or via Google Drive here: goo.gl/5BdsqF

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I’ve never tried (or even heard of) Kore before? I tried out the Plex app but found it inconvenient to use to control my RasPlex.

It has the exact same functions as the error free IT web app/page, linked to above. Here are a couple screenshots:



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Well, there’s always room for variety, and having access to the coder of a remote control project here could mean improved customization for RasPlex usage.

That said, I must add that I was unable to make this remote work, possibly because my PMS server is configured not to allow unauthenticated access, even on local network. Also, when using this app on my ‘HTC One X’ phone, the yellow text in many of those brown buttons was misaligned, being placed too far to the right. Thus the letter “K” in the word “BACK” was partly invisible, being right at the edge of its button, with appx one third of the character missing. The same goes for the “U” in “MENU”. Most other words were at least complete though many of them were similarily misaligned. This was not 100% consistent though, as some of the words were correctly centered within their buttons.

In the top menu section (above the purple “RasPlex Remote” banner) all words were misaligned, except for the “UP” button. The “SELECT” button was also almost correct, but had slightly more unused space to the left of the “S” than to the right of the “T”, so it was not perfectly centered.

In the bottom menu section (below the purple “RasPlex Remote” banner) the first five buttons had perfectly centered text, with only the final two having misaligned text. Thus both the “U” in “MENU” and the “P” in “STOP” had parts of the character invisible at the right edge of their buttons.

I suspect that this problem is due to incorrect compensation for a proportional font and its size choice.

Best regards: dlanor