Plex/Seven: Integrated Sparkle and Battery Monitoring
First of all, thanks to everyone yesterday who took the time to comment on our first feature exposé for Plex/Seven! We really appreciate the feedback and kind words.
Since the very first time I used XBMC on my old XBox, I longed for the ability for it to auto-update itself. Now Plex has had Sparkle update capabilities for a while, but let’s face it, it wasn’t perfect. It would pop up a Cocoa window, and you’d have to change to windowed mode in order to finish the update. Your friends would mock you and your wife would eventually start seeing the FedEx delivery man. This left you feeling empty and yearning for a truly integrated update that you could complete while eating pizza and spilling beer on yourself, greasy Apple Remote in hand.
That day is here!
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So good to see a developer actually listening to feedback and giving users what they want. Thanks guys, you have made my day with this one.
Good job! Awesome!
You guys seriously rock.
I don’t have a Mac to run this on yet, but I continue looking at the progress and updates you guys are coming out with and am drooling with anticipation for my Mac to use Plex on.
Cheers,
Jason.
you guys are awesome. really appreciate your philosophy, and am very excited to see this approach being taken with a platform with such potential. I’ve already shelved my xbox, because plex blows the original xbmc away. keep up the great work. How do you guys get paid or plan to get paid for this stuff?
Nice, very handy.
The XBMC Plex features divide is opening. And I like it!!
The update side of things will be very handy for Mac Mini/HTPC users who only have a remote and no Keyboard/Mouse lying around.
Looking forward to the BIG (in my eyes) integration features in the next few days.
Plex/Seven : Native 24p support. ( Although through my research I’m not quite sure that the GMA950 chip can do this
!? )
This software really amazes me at every release.
Wonderful!! I hated the update window
This all looks very, very cool. Nice work. These types of details will make this an outstanding app.
Very cool. I had the update window pop up in the middle of Iron Man the other day with all my family over. They were so impressed until that and I had to run up and pause, switch to windowed mode, find my mouse curser, kill the update window, switch back to full screen, apologize profusely and resume.
Brilliant! Loving the new updater. I would’ve loved the low battery warning as well if my battery lasted more than 15 minutes…
Keep up the good work!
This is awesome for my Mac Mini hooked up in the bedroom to our flatscreen that has no keyboard or mouse. No longer have to VNC in with my MacBook or iPhone
Except when Plex crashes 
which IS rare these days
Sweet! Say, in the future adding a feature to remap apple remote functions would be sweet too; I’d kind of like to have volume control a little more apple-remote friendly a-la frontrow, and as much as ffwd/chapter skip is handy at times, I think I could get by with just the ffwd/longffwdspeedup/down instead of chapter skip. Albeit, I’m sure others like it as is, but configurability would be swell.
really looking forward to .7!
I take it that the bat notice will occur in a corner of a playing video and not only when I am going through Plex videos…
Wouldn’t it be cool if Plex reacted in a similar fashion if we got email in our mail client or if a twitter msg came up…
Great work guys. Plex is truely one of my fav aps on my mini.
iBenoit
Wouldn’t it be cool if Plex reacted in a similar fashion if we got email in our mail client or if a twitter msg came up…
This would be SO cool, but I can imagine a little tricky to code… Would be nice tho, since you could then twitter your Plex box…
@Ranglin
There is an python script called XBMCMail V0.31 originally written for XBMC that checks pop3 accounts. This should work with Plex.
For a python coder interested, it wouldn’t be too much of a problem to build a plugin using the Twitter API.
Very nice!
(to Ranglin: I don’t know if it works cause I haven’t tried it, but maybe you would be able to get this using Growl, assuming the notifications show on top of Plex)