Serviio

Zip,
I have a suggestion on a possible function that will work with the user profile request that you are working on.

https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/issue/65/user-profiles

Me and my son are watching episodes of a TV series and most of the time we watch the episode at the same time, but sometimes he will get a couple of episodes ahead of me. I then have to try and figure out what episode was the last one that I watched. If when you get the user profiles working you can do some kind of modification to the last viewed indications so they are profile tracked. This would allow indivuals users to track episodes that they have watched on a system that has multiple people using.

ie.

Under my profile is shows last viewed is S01E02
Under my son's profile the last viewed is S01E05

Rereading this post it seams hard to read, but not sure how to make it more understandable. If you have any questions please let me know.

This is a brilliant idea, this way I dont see my wifes Glee episodes on the last watched folder! And my wife can catch up on her Breaking Bad episodes

But how will this work on the same tv or renderer?

I am not sure how Zip will do it, but I would make a selection screen that would allow you to pick the different profiles. This screen would come up after you select serviio as the dlna server on the render. Then a last watch field would be added to the database for each profile that you have setup. This would allow each profile to have the last watched folder showing their last watched.

I'd probably base it on renderer though. I'm not too keen on selecting 'virtual' folders on the renderer to change a setting etc. Other possibility could be a 'login' via the console, or even better via a mobile phone app - if someone volunteers to write one.

Totally cool would be facial recognition via Kinect, but that's quite a stretch

please, comment on the ticket, I'll see what I can do

I have always wanted to start programming for the Android. Anything special I need to know from the Serviio end to try this.

Just here thinking about it and I might be able to get with kairoh with his Web UI in Restful Ajax. I will have to try and get this Web UI working on Beta 0.6 and the see how it works on my droid X. This should give us access to the serviio console on the droid x, so it would be an easy way to be able to Login.

I will look at that way, but I also would like to make a direct way to log on to a serviio console profile. Something like where there is a password/pincode to just enable a certain profile on a certain render. A UI with minimal buttons and settings.

There is a API documentation in the dev corner of this forum, that should be all you need to talk to Serviio. Obviously you have to find out how to implement the calls in Android.