ServiiGo (Android 3G/4G/Wifi Playback App)

I reverse proxy Serviio's MediaBrowser (including CDS) through my webserver at home. Remote viewing/listening works flawlessly in a browser over port 443 (and thus SSL). Does ServiiGo support https? I add the port number in the address field, but it never connects. If it does not currently, I would like to add this as a feature request. Thanks.

At the moment no, it doesn't support https, but I am going through the code as I change related code to enable it as it is something I would also like for myself. The parts I will need to properly test/will be the most likely blocker are Audio and Video playback. Are you using a self signed key?

It will come, but I need to finish off a number of other things first.

I am not using a self-signed certificate. I am using a free, trusted SSL certificate from StartSSL. I also use RD Gateway which does not play well with untrusted certs. I do think it would be a good idea to have an option to trust untrusted certificates. Thanks for the update. I'll keep an eye out for the update with SSL support. Until then, I guess I'll forward a port...

[will]

I am not using a self-signed certificate. I am using a free, trusted SSL certificate from StartSSL. I also use RD Gateway which does not play well with untrusted certs. I do think it would be a good idea to have an option to trust untrusted certificates. Thanks for the update. I'll keep an eye out for the update with SSL support. Until then, I guess I'll forward a port...

Yes I will effectively have a mostly hidden advanced connection option section where you can enable SSL support and then also enable self signed certs. It definately won't be in the next major version (2.2), but may be in the one after that if it isn't too much of a pain, I'll also need to re-write the connection management to make better re-use of existing connections. Once this version is done I'll try to plan out how long things will take.

[will]

2.2 is nearly ready and should be out by the weekend, in the mean time here is a second beta for testing. Since the first beta this has some improvements to the music player backend, support for shuffle/repeate, default video quality and a few other fixes, but please give it a good once over as its been a while since I last did a release.

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==== 2.2 Beta 2 ====
*Improved Music Player:
**Fixed stuttering on certain devices when playing back partially downloaded files
**Added repeat and shuffle options (#35)
**Optimised playback of cached files
**Fixed playback of single live streams
**Fixed seeking of transcoded files once they have been fully downloaded
**Disabled seeking of partially downloaded files
*Added support for setting default quality for videos (#51)
*Fixed loading of very large video folders
*Fixed online metadata not being saved for movies with ' in the title and no IMDB/TMDB IDs
*Fixed high res album art not being displayed when browsing via Folders
*Fixed audio playback when either Artist or Album has trailing whitespace
*Updated libraries


[will]

I've uploaded 2.2 to Google Play. Pretty much the same as Beta 2, with a few more minor bug fixes.

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==== 2.2 ====
*Improved Music Player:
**Fixed stuttering on certain devices when playing back partially downloaded files
**Added repeat and shuffle options (#35)
**Optimised playback of cached files
**Fixed playback of single live streams
**Fixed seeking of transcoded files once they have been fully downloaded
**Disabled seeking of partially downloaded files
*Added support for setting default quality for videos (#51)
*Fixed loading of very large video folders
*Fixed online metadata not being saved for movies with ' in the title and no IMDB/TMDB IDs
*Fixed high res album art not being displayed when browsing via Folders
*Fixed audio playback when either Artist or Album has trailing whitespace
*Minor bug fixes
*Updated libraries


[will]

Minor fix release.

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==== 2.2.1 ====
*Fixed crash when sending a play command via a widget or remote control when the playlist is empty
*Updated translations


Just downloaded this and new to Serviio. (I am not a coder. I am a quick learner of programming, but many of the forum posts are working from a level of familiarity - of how to get started - which I don't possess.)

On my Motorola Milestone 2 I cannot navigate between audio, video and pictures. The app decides which one I'm in and there is no way of pulling up a menu to change that.

The audio seems to work, when I happen to be in audio mode, but there was a complete failure to load any videos.

Chris

[will]

Just downloaded this and new to Serviio. (I am not a coder. I am a quick learner of programming, but many of the forum posts are working from a level of familiarity - of how to get started - which I don't possess.)

On my Motorola Milestone 2 I cannot navigate between audio, video and pictures. The app decides which one I'm in and there is no way of pulling up a menu to change that.

The audio seems to work, when I happen to be in audio mode, but there was a complete failure to load any videos.

Chris

Press the ServiiGo icon in the top left corner of the app to bring out the navigation menu (Same as Facebook, G+, YouTube etc...).

Press the ServiiGo icon in the top left corner of the app to bring out the navigation menu (Same as Facebook, G+, YouTube etc...).

Thanks. There are an awful lot of options to scroll through before you can get down to select a media type! A menu option would be much appreciated in a future version.

Now my phone recognises the video content (thanks, perhaps, to thinning out my overfull folders) but will not play any format of video (.mov, .flv, .avi, .wmv or anything else I have tried).

[will]

Using the Serviio Console under the presentation tab you can turn off categories that you don't use to thin the list out a bit. Next time you start the app it will start in the media type you used last.

What video player app are you using? The built in one almost certainly will not work. I find MX Player the best.

I reverse proxy Serviio's MediaBrowser (including CDS) through my webserver at home. Remote viewing/listening works flawlessly in a browser over port 443 (and thus SSL). Does ServiiGo support https? I add the port number in the address field, but it never connects. If it does not currently, I would like to add this as a feature request. Thanks.

JR

At the moment no, it doesn't support https, but I am going through the code as I change related code to enable it as it is something I would also like for myself. The parts I will need to properly test/will be the most likely blocker are Audio and Video playback. Are you using a self signed key?

It will come, but I need to finish off a number of other things first.

I would like to +1 support for reverse proxy and SSL as I also have a Reverse Proxy with an SSL wrapper.
Thanks and keep up the fantastic software!

[will]

I would like to +1 support for reverse proxy and SSL as I also have a Reverse Proxy with an SSL wrapper.
Thanks and keep up the fantastic software!

This is now mostly done, although I need to investigate the effect on performance and make sure the number of SSL handshakes are minimised. I'll post a preview in a week or two. You will need a signed certificate as the media player won't accept anything else when given a https url and this is used for Live audio streams and video playback.

Good Afternoon All,

I have tested a preview copy of ServiiGo with the networking settings revised to allow for use with the reverse proxy.

I have confirmed that this preview works to stream videos and audio (stored files - I don't have any live streams configured) over an IIS reverse proxy and using an SSL wrapper (Using a certificate signed by Positive SSL to my domain).

Thanks Will for producing this great piece of software.

[will]

Good Afternoon All,

I have tested a preview copy of ServiiGo with the networking settings revised to allow for use with the reverse proxy.

I have confirmed that this preview works to stream videos and audio (stored files - I don't have any live streams configured) over an IIS reverse proxy and using an SSL wrapper (Using a certificate signed by Positive SSL to my domain).

Thanks Will for producing this great piece of software.

Thanks for testing it for me, if it works with video then it should work with live audio streams.

[Xmantium]

Hi Will, this app is running rock solid on my new Galaxy S4. Got my wife to switch from iPhone to the new HTC One and she is loving this app on her 1080p screen.

Is it possible to have two default playback options, one for WiFi and one for cellular.
I like the original playback over WiFi and medium playback over 3G/4G

[will]

Is it possible to have two default playback options, one for WiFi and one for cellular.
I like the original playback over WiFi and medium playback over 3G/4G

I wanted to do one better than that an have a default quality when connected to home WiFi network, and a alternative one when away from home, but still need to work out the best way to implement it.

Using the Serviio Console under the presentation tab you can turn off categories that you don't use to thin the list out a bit. Next time you start the app it will start in the media type you used last.

What video player app are you using? The built in one almost certainly will not work. I find MX Player the best.

I have tried the built in one, Seaman's, and now MX. None of them finishes loading the videos to play them.

[will]

I have tried the built in one, Seaman's, and now MX. None of them finishes loading the videos to play them.

Can you try both Original and Medium qualities.

What OS is your server installed on? Is it linux?

[will]

Here is a quick beta release of the next version https://bitbucket.org/willlunniss/servi ... -Beta1.apk

I plan to release this at the weekend assuming nothing major comes up, so please give it a quick once over and let me know of any problems/comments on the changes.

If any of you use the Donate version's movie metadata fetching feature in a non english language, please test it by opening up some movies (especially obscure ones), and clicking menu->update online metadata. I've switch to the new TMDB API, and it has some changes todo with languages, so I want to check it works OK.

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==== 2.3 Beta 1 ====
*Removed support for Serviio 1.1, minimum version is now 1.2
*Added a custom expanded notifcation (JB+)
*Switched to TMDb API v3
*Added support for SSL (Requires Apache/Stunnel etc... to proxy requests, a signed certificate, and enabling via Menu->Settings->Advanced->Extra connection options)
*Improved handling of connection problems/server errors
*Updated Drawer (slide out menu) to match new design guidelines
*Lots of other internal improvements/optimisations/fixes
*Added the clientId parameter needed to allow Serviio to re-use transcoding jobs when the device IP address changes
*Updated translations
*Updated libraries


Now I have some more news. Yesterday Google added a way to do Alpha and Beta testing via Google play, so in the comming weeks I'm going to setup a Google+ Community which you can join and then opt-in to getting beta versions of the app direct from Google Play. I especially encourage Serviio Beta testers to sign up, as that is where support for new features, including any that require beta versions of Serviio will be. This will save you checking back for beta versions, and should increase the number of tests/encourage feedback. I will also do the same for ServiiDroid.

Talking of beta version of Serviio, if you have been looking around Serviio's issue tracker, you will have noticed that zip recently closed a ticket that adds support for searching for the CDS API. I'm really quite excited about this as it will make finding content much better. So, if you have any search related thoughts/requests, let me know. I'll be working to get it into the new beta channel by the time the first beta of Serviio comes out.

[Xmantium]

Thanks Will, will fully test this tonight. I was watching the Google IO 2013 and its very cool they added so many new features for developers. The screen size view mode and translation help was very cool, hopefully this will make ServiiGo even better.

[will]

I've uploaded a revised verison that will try to get a new token automatically if you restart the server. Provided when it reconnects the server is running the same version and has the same id, it will get the new token silently in the background without you having to do anything. This works for both browsing, and in the music player, but does not work for video players.