More laziness with the XBMC Remote Android App

The XBMC android app is great. I mean really really great. It might just be the best android app on my shiny new Atrix. There is/was one problem though. While the wake on LAN properly wakes my box up, the app has no suspend feature.

Hmm... eerily similar to the situation I ran into a few weeks ago. Luckily the app is GPL and I can have a go at fixing things.

XBMC has a secure auth http port exposed and a second unauthed raw command port for LAN only use. The patch below adds a suspend function that sends json to the raw port, and adds a button on the home screen to call the new function. For now this is just a simple get it done hack (hardcoded hostname/port, not following the code style/convention), but it would be cool to build a nice full featured "Shutdown" menu that enables exit, shutdown, suspend, etc. functionality.

Maybe later. Need sleep now... Self.Suspend()


$ svn di src/org/xbmc/android/remote/presentation/controller/HomeController.java
Index: src/org/xbmc/android/remote/presentation/controller/HomeController.java
===================================================================
--- src/org/xbmc/android/remote/presentation/controller/HomeController.java (revision 759)
+++ src/org/xbmc/android/remote/presentation/controller/HomeController.java (working copy)
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@

package org.xbmc.android.remote.presentation.controller;

+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.net.Socket;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Observable;
@@ -103,8 +108,8 @@
private static final int HOME_ACTION_RECONNECT = 5;
private static final int HOME_ACTION_WOL = 6;
private static final int HOME_ACTION_TVSHOWS = 7;
+ private static final int HOME_ACTION_SUSPEND = 8;

-
private IInfoManager mInfoManager;

private static final String TAG = "HomeController";
@@ -229,6 +234,7 @@
prefs.registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
homeItems.add(new HomeItem(HOME_ACTION_NOWPLAYING, R.drawable.icon_home_playing, "Now Playing", "See what's"));
homeItems.add(remote);
+ homeItems.add(new HomeItem(HOME_ACTION_SUSPEND, R.drawable.icon_home_power, "Suspend", "Invoke"));

final ArrayList offlineItems = new ArrayList();
offlineItems.add(remote);
@@ -310,6 +316,9 @@
mWolCounter.start();
}
break;
+ case HOME_ACTION_SUSPEND:
+ doSuspend();
+ break;
}
if (intent != null) {
mActivity.startActivity(intent);
@@ -318,6 +327,18 @@
};
}

+ private void doSuspend() {
+ try {
+ final Socket mySocket = new Socket("myth.lan", 9090);
+ final PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(mySocket.getOutputStream(), true);
+ out.println("{\"jsonrpc\": \"2.0\", \"method\": \"System.Suspend\", \"id\": \"1\"}'jsonrpc': \"2.0\", 'method': \"VideoLibrary.ScanForContent\", 'id': \"1\"");
+ out.close();
+ mySocket.close();
+ } catch (IOException e) {
+ }
+}
+
+
public void update(Observable observable, Object data) {
if (data instanceof BroadcastListener.Event) {
BroadcastListener.Event event = (BroadcastListener.Event)data;