Luke 36878 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Not at the moment. MBC needs to actually be running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36878 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 Perhaps eventually there will be a background service to catch the command, but we don't have that right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyborg 0 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 If it started MBC up when WMC starts that would be great. It would always be active even if it wasn't in focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyborg 0 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Is it possible to select a movie from the Android client and then tell it to play to MBC when I am sitting at the start screen of WMC and not actually in MBC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Redshirt 1487 Posted February 14, 2014 Solution Share Posted February 14, 2014 nope. MBC needs to be running to 'hear' the playback request. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyborg 0 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Thanks, that's what my testing indicated. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14850 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 There is the user authentication issue to consider as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36878 Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share Posted February 14, 2014 Yea definitely. I was thinking with all our mbt devs perhaps this could eventually be built, and done in a way so that both mbt and mbc could use it. not an immediate thing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyborg 0 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Perhaps the credentials used on the device sending could be used to authenticate/login to the account in MBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14850 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Perhaps the credentials used on the device sending could be used to authenticate/login to the account in MBC. That is what would have to happen but we need the ability to send those credentials and receive them on the client end, and the ability to tell the client to start up and start playing something right away. So, it is possible, but a lot of stuff has to happen first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyborg 0 Posted February 15, 2014 Share Posted February 15, 2014 Thanks for the response and consideration. Looking for reasons to force my family to upgrade from MB2. It works so good that unless I give them compelling evidence to upgrade they balk at any change. I can't understand their attitude of, "if it's not broken quit tinkering with it." By the way congrats on an impressive charge ahead in a very competitive front end market. MB has come along way since the video browser days and managed to stay relevant after WMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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