It’s been a long way since this project first started, and development has come mostly in small but intense bursts of productivity. However, that is now behind us, as we are commited to work on this project more consistently as much as our time allows.

The server has been completly rewritten from scratch in Typescript, taking advantage of all the lessons we learned from the previous versions.
For now, the application does not support plugins, although that is a very high priority for us, to allow each user to adapt the application to their choices.

The code is publicly available on Github, as well as instructions on how to install and use the media center. Currently, it is only advised to be used by people with good experience with web development, altough that will certainly change when we create a more intuitive install process and fine-tune the user experience of the application.

Tweaked Interface

We were pretty proud already of our application’s interface. Since it’s first iteration, we have tweaked it many times, most notably, adding context-aware media artwork to the background and redesigning completely the playlists controls.

There is still a long way to go, specifically in terms of responsive design, making the interface scale well to smaller screens, which will most likely be the main devices where it will serve as a remote.

Current Features

Currently the applications only supports Chromecast as a receiver and Kodi as a content provider. In the future this will be 100% extensible.

Transcoding is not yet implemented, although it is high on our priority list.

Filters, collections and playlists will also be implemented as soon as possible.

Finally, the ability to find subtitles directly from the application should also make it into the first stable version.