Hi again,

Once again we've finished a new version. Version 1.5.1 is now available in both the Ubuntu store and OpenRepos, and will be available in Jolla Harbour in one of the upcoming days (it's submitted for approval).

There are a few common changes in both the Ubuntu and the Sailfish app. In both apps you're now able to make changes to a host, and there are some new, host specific, settings. All of these new settings are volume related and allow you to use a custom volume stepping, which is the same behavior as the app previously had, although you can now manually configure the step size (default is still 5). But there's now also the option to only send volume up and volume down messages to XBMC. This will for example allow you to change the volume of a CEC enabled AV receiver. And third there is the option to run an external script on the phone itself. This possibility has been available for a longer period of time, but was always hidden in the configuration files, and is now made visible in these host settings.
Furthermore the possibility to edit a host required the rewrite of some of the internals. This should make the host discovery a bit more stable and prevent some issues when you had for example two different XBMC hosts in different networks and both had the same IP address.

The Ubuntu app was also redesigned on top of the latest Ubuntu SDK. The most notable change due to this (as far as I know, because I didn't work on it ), is a new popup you can open from a bottom swipe. This contains a new, software controlled, volume bar, next to the already available use of the phones volume rocker. It furthermore contains the options for the currently playing item and the power menu.

On Sailfish' end there's only one bigger change, besides the common changes, which is the power dialog being replaced with a page which is reachable from the main screen using a swipe to the left. Furthermore the previously reported issues have been fixed. These include the search field lowing focus when the result list is updated, and the gesture pad not working when swiping to quickly after touching the pad.
Sadly I didn't find the time yet to implement a software based volume bar (needed for Jolla Harbour), but this is on the top of my list to implement in the next version.

Edit 12-8:
The update has just been accepted to Jolla Harbour, and can thus be updated using the Store app. However the same restrictions as before still apply (no volume control, no haptic feedback, no caller name for incoming call)