On 04/08/2019 12:45, Daniel James wrote:
> In article , Mike Easter wrote:
>> According to the Kodi description, it wants to embrace the UI paradigm
>> of the 'ten foot interface'.
>>
>> So, I would picture some Kodi 'fiends' as wanting to sit back in their
>> easy chair in front of a big screen TV and surround sound speakers to
>> get 'big' audio and video experiences.
>>
>> The kb/mouse doesn't actually quite fit that 10' paradigm.
>
> The Kodi folk want to give a "home cinema" feel to their interface. They
> haven't really understood that the great thing about a cinema is that
> there is a projectionist setting the system up and handling the
> scheduling and programming -- the "user" just has to sit back and make
> himself ill on over-priced fizzy drinks and popcorn.
>
> No, I'm being a little unfair ...
>
> .. but my point is that a keyboard/mouse (or wireless mini-keyboard
> with trackpad) allows interaction that is SO much richer than can be
> achieved with a TV remote and a clunky on-screen menu. I can't see why
> anyone would deliberately emulate 1960s (1950s?) TV technology when
> there are better things available.
>
>> ... I'm not really 'into' using a handheld touchscreen device to
>> interface w/ what I'm doing, BUT...
>>
>> .... I can see some 'uses' for such a concept, ie witness the
>> cellphone users who 'do everything' w/ their cell.
>
> AFAIK Kodi doesn't give you the option of controlling the thing from a
> smartphone ... but if it does (now) do that, that's probably a step
> forward.
>
> I've recently started using Netflix on my dumb-ish TV, and the easiest
> and cheapest way for me to do that is to use a ChromeCast device
> attached to the TV and control it from my Android phone. Apart from the
> fact that the phone and the ChromeCast dongle occasionally lose sight of
> one another and one or the other (but you have to guess which) needs
> restarting or disconnecting from the WiFi for a few seconds so that they
> can find one another again it works quite well. The fact that I can also
> cast the BBC's catch-up TV, my photo collection, YouTube, etc., to the
> TV in the same way is a bonus.
>
> It's the kind of thing I'd like to use a Pi for, but the ChromeCast
> makes it so easy ... and there are issues with Netflix's DRM on Chromium
> on the Pi that I don't have the time or inclination to investigate.
>
>> It might be that LibreElec isn't the ideal way to achieve that
>> paradigm. There are others such as OSMC or Xbian.
>
> LibreElec, Kodi, OSMC, and Xbian are all inbred cousins; a lot of code
> is common to them all. A lot of good work has gone into them, but they
> seem to share the notion that it's "cool" to give a computerized media
> management system an obsolete UX.
>
> 
>


If you want to control kodi from your mobile phone, then there is this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.xbmc.kore&gl=GB

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