Boxee Remote Control Interface Plans

[ccjensen]

Hi,

I have previously played around with the xbmc api, but have now switched completely to boxee. With the upcoming release of the iPad, I am interested in (if time becomes available) to make a kickass iPad remote which allows you to browse the library and all kinds of good stuff.

I have read this post on the developer wiki (http://developer.boxee.tv/Remote_Control_Interface):

Important: The web interface is very old and will be changed in the future. We are aware that the interface is not easy to use and the response are difficult to parse. We apologize for that.

Obviously, I am not going to spend time developing for an API that is to become obsolete. Does the boxee developer team have any ideas how the new api is going to function? Perhaps there is a pre-release version/source that I could get my hands on so I could start looking into how to create such an iPad application?

I know this is a long shot, but figured I would throw it out there. Perhaps boxee are themselves planning to develop such a thing?

Thanks

[Fuzzgtp]

I know it sounds silly, but I'm sure when they have some new code, the folks who have already developed remote apps will get first dibs, so you might be better off creating it now and modifying it to work with the new code.

I doubt they will break the old remotes (there are quite a few of them now), but more likely extend them to include new stuff.

[Max_nl]

Was wondering if there is any update on this.
The current Wiki entry has been listing "Important: The web interface is very old and will be changed in the future" since 2009.

In particular I'm looking for a way to tell Boxee to start streaming from an URL I send to it.

[tomjaimz]

I'm also interested in this. I'd like to make a web application that allows browsing my Boxee library from another device on the same network, and allowing me to add music/videos to a queue to play. Can this be done?

[Melloware]

I am the author of MonkeyTunes (http://melloware.com/products/monkeytunes/) which is a DACP based plugin for MediaMonkey. It allows MediaMonkey to pretend to be iTunes/AppleTV and gives you an incredible iPhone, iPad, and Android remote because Apple already built a great UI.

unfortunately the Boxee Remote API is just not robust enough right now for me to develop a Boxee DACP Server.

http://melloware.com/products/monkeytunes/

If the API becomes robust where I can query for all Artists, Albums, Movies etc then it might become possible.