Here you can find all the little projects I am involved in at the moment. I have to mention that I usually plan a lot of things and that it can take from a while to forever to get them done ...

Jabber for MediaPortal

This will be a MediaPortal plugin showing Jabber messages as popup dialogs on your TV.
Originally my idea was to do this via the Bonjour/ZeroConf protocoll, but it seems that there is a bug in the 64bit Windows implementation of it.

Therefore the current plan is:

• Version 1: MediaPortal signs in as a client to a Jaber server. Every contact with the MediaPortal client in the list can now send messages to the screen. The MediaPortal user has to click "ok" to dismiss them. Support for simple questions (if there is a question mark at the end of the sentence a YES/NO dialog will be used instead of an OK dialog, the sender will be notified of the answer).
• Version 2: Support for avatars.
• Version 3: Set the status to away when a video file is played with the title as away-message. Maybe a real contact list with white/blacklisting or similar.

I created a Google Code project for this. Everybody interested in the code or in submitting feature requests / bug reports should go there: Jabber-MP at Google Code.

80%

Status: Version 1 Beta Test

Skills: C#, XMPP

Members: Cornelius

SocialMP

A MediaPortal plugin making the use of MediaPortal more "social".
This is achieved with the integration of Twitter (it twitters what you are watching/listening) and by implementing a MediaPortal client for the SMX Server (shows what your friends have watched/listened to and submits your data to the server).

5%

Status: Prototype done

Skills: C#, Soap, REST

Members: Cornelius

SMX Server

A web component, containing a user management system and multiple webservice endpoints. Those webservices enable different media player programs to submit data about your media consumption.
Your friends can then get this list via another webservice to see what you have watched or listened to.

http://www.stalk-me.net

1%

Status: Conception

Skills: PHP5, MySQL, Zend Framework, Soap

Members: Trekkie, Cornelius

iPhone remote for MediaPortal

A simple remote control for MediaPortal as a native iPhone application.
For this I have to program the client app for the iPhone and a process plugin for MediaPortal which receives the signals and translates them into MP commands.

Here is a rough plan:

• Version 1: Establish a connection to a MediaPortal process plugin.
  This has to be done via a socket broadcast from the iPhone. All servers in the network respond to this broadcast and will be listet in the iPhone. The user can now select the mediaportal installation he or she wants to control.
• Version 2: Simple remote, buttons for left, right, up, down, ok and previous.
  The plan is to define a XML protocol which contains the message (type: keyPress, key: UP). This way the remote will be easily expandable in the future.
• Version 3: Now playing display with coverart and additional information if possible.
• Version 4: Gesture input like the Boxee Remote app does.
• Version 5: More shortcuts, possibilities to control the video/audio playback and maybe the transfer of text messages to MediaPortal.

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Status: Planning and research

Skills: C#, Cocoa Touch

Members: Cornelius