{"id":140,"date":"2010-07-14T12:18:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/ubuntu-xbmc-and-android-almost-as-good-as-well-you-know-what\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T12:18:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:18:23","slug":"ubuntu-xbmc-and-android-almost-as-good-as-well-you-know-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/ubuntu-xbmc-and-android-almost-as-good-as-well-you-know-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu, XBMC and Android &#8212; almost as good as .. well you know what :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a desktop running Ubuntu 10.4 and the latest version of <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/\">XBMC<\/a> as my Media Centre.&nbsp; It is used for all my Media requirements whether it is to watch Movies or some Series, looking at photographs or listening to my music collection.&nbsp; Up until today I had to control it either via a mouse or a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Well not anymore.&nbsp; Today <a href=\"http:\/\/xbmc.org\/freezy3k\/2010\/07\/13\/official-xbmc-remote-for-android\/\">XBMC for Android<\/a> was released and although it is still in beta, it works perfectly.&nbsp; I installed the app on my HTC Desire, configiure XBMS to be controlled via HTTP and setup the XBMC Android app to control the desktop XBMC.&nbsp; Install\/setup instructions <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/android-xbmcremote\/wiki\/Setup_Instructions_9_11_and_later\">here<\/a> if you&#8217;re looking for it.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have a remote in my hand to control all the parts of XBMC and I can sit wherever I want and watch to my hearts content.&nbsp; This must be one of the greatest apps around.&nbsp; So if you have an Android phone and XBMC (can be any XBMC, not necessary Ubuntu) then do yourself the favour and try it out.&nbsp; You will never use the keyboard and mouse again to control XBMC.<\/p>\n<p>Oh just in case you want to know.&nbsp; XBMC for Android communicates to your XBMC instance via WiFi so no need for Bluetooth, Infrared and anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Off to go watch some more &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/xbmc%20for%20android\" rel=\"tag\">xbmc for android<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a desktop running Ubuntu 10.4 and the latest version of XBMC as my Media Centre.&nbsp; It is used for all my Media requirements whether it is to watch Movies or some Series, looking at photographs or listening to my music collection.&nbsp; Up until today I had to control it either via a mouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[105,104,4],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-mobile","category-ubuntu","tag-xbmc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}