SYBU for Kodi – Release and Version history

Media library > Recent expanded/collapse state persisted when swapping between views

Movies > Improved handling for large movie collections. (specifically when imdb id is not set)

Minor UI Update. iPhone > Landscape orientation > removed white borders on left and right side on main screen view

Support for iPhone landscape orientation all models 5.5″ – 6.7″

Rotary volume control for iPhone landscape orientation

Updated user interface icons

Recent items for Movies, TV Shows and Music

Performance optimization for loading very large music libraries

Minor bug fixes

New. Video Library. Clean and Scan options added for Movies or TV Series. Touch the ⋮ button (vertical ellipses) at top right (next to search bar) that normally reveal the filters. Additional options on this panel is available to clean or scan the video library.

New. Audio Library. Clean and Scan options added for Music. Touch the ⋮ button at top right (next to search bar)

Update. Improve setup and connection when host is manually added by hostname

Fixed. Wake-On-Lan (WoL), that was blocked by iOS 14.x upgrade. New networking entitlements received from Apple.

Fix. Dashboard missing fanart when connecting to Kodi v19

Fix. Movies, TV Shows, Episodes missing fanart when connecting to Kodi v19

Updated. Improved time slider with time scrubbing

• Tap and hold time slider, then slider finger down, then slide finger left or right

• The time increment will be smaller for further down

Fix. Time slider. Updated support for Kodi v19 (Matrix)

Support added for iOS v14.5

Minimum iOS supported v12

New. Language localization for FR

New. Dark mode support

Fix. Time slider erratic seek. Remove scrubbing functionality.

Fix. Minor User Interface fixes

Improved performance when app becomes active and content is already playing.

Minor interface enhancement for iPhone X screen layout.

Support for iPhone X screen layout

Support for iOS 11

Fixed bug that did not persist user entered MAC address.

Haptic Feedback (Vibration feedback) for main screen. Can be disabled in the Info/setup.

Library > Music. Fixed missing buttons for Album Queue and Album Play

Minor UI fixes in display in Now Playing list

Subtitles selection, changed to use a popover similar to audio stream selection.

Bug fixes for intermittent crashes in Media Library section when browsing sources, also movies without titles, tv series.

Minor interface enhancement

Added option ‘Reverse Scroll’ that user can set preference to swap the scroll /gesture direction between natural and unnatural.

Support to save multiple host profiles

Swipe gesture for on-screen navigation up, down, left, right. This is particular useful for scrolling lists on-screen without needing to look down at the remote.

Connect via cellular 3G/4G/LTE, VPN, Hotspot permitted

WoL (Wake on LAN) fixed.  (Functionality was broken by iOS 10.2 upgrade)

Friendly / Display name can be configured for a host

Option to manually set MAC address for WoL

Various UI display fixes, related to layout

Support for iOS 10.2 and later

Library. Movie synopsis, sometimes overlaps actor display

Favourites, fixed bug that did not always list all favourite items from Kodi

Host Discovery. Prevent use of hostname localhost.local, automatically use discovered IP address

Volume.  Automatically un-mute when adjusting volume

Subtitle management. Added popover, that allows for language selection, or download option via subtitle plugin when available

Added more information on screen, when connection to host fails. Automatically perform ping and diagnostics to improve issue resolution

Fixed missing Fan-art, when authentication was required on connection

Plugins.  Hide disabled plugins

Fixed intermittent bug that failed to restore connection when swapping between WiFi availability or different access points.

Automatic resume of video at last saved time

Time slider scrubbing

Updated layout for iPhone 6

Updated layout for iPhone 6 Plus

Faster response for time seek up/down buttons. fast repeated taps. tap and hold

Fixed favorites not displayed

Prevent accidental time slider adjustment on stale time.

Seek scrubber added. Drag finger down for finer time adjustment

Copy / Paste of clipboard text. Keyboard text visible while typing

Movie Filter. Filter on genre. Sort on Movie Name, Rating, Date Added, Movie Release Year

TV Shows Filter. Filter on genre. Sort on Name, Rating, Date Added, Show Release Year. Order on Episodes

Some small UI tweaks

Bugfix: intermittent hang of interface, forcing reconnect, when communicating with Kodi host

Springboard icon changed from ‘Sybu Xbmc’ to ‘Sybu Kodi’

Subtitle selection.

Audio stream selection.

Display of MAC address in WoL (Wake on Lan)

Improved handling of WoL state

Minor bug fixes related to display for favorites and add-ons, when no items found.

Improved compatibility with Kodi.

Fixed display of elapsed, remaining time for content longer than 2hrs.

Minor user interface improvements.

Watched filter for Movies

Watched filter for TV Series and episodes.

Bugfix for iOS8, no WiFi indicator. Issue introduced by iOS8 due to changes in Reachability.

Tap and hold on-screen Navigation buttons (up, down, left right) for continuous navigation direction.

Bugfix on iOS8 crash when presenting shutdown options. Replaced deprecated control.

Bugfix for iOS8 when presenting keyboard.

Increased size of elapsed and remaining time.

Reformatted elapsed and remaining time to include hour display.y.

Show Fan Art as background in main screen. Option can be enabled Info screen.

Fix intermittent crash on iPad during rotation after library access.

Stay awake option added.

Movies and TV Shows. Photos of cast members added.

Favorites that are obsolete are no longer displayed.

Bugfix. Initial connection on some configurations caused a 4 second initial connection delay. Introduced by WOL functionality. This has been resolved.

Bugfix. Covert art, thumbnails for TV Shows and Movies does not display correctly when connecting to XBMC version 12/13.  Resolved.

Display and selection of Favorites

Display and selection of Add-ons / Plugins

Display and selection of Playlists

Option to swap between Audio and Video Now-playing playlist

Editing of Now Playling playlist

Option to queue or play search selection or Album

Wake-On-LAN (WOL)

Added XBMC Quit option to shutdown menu

Automatic detection of XBMC (if configured) on new install

iOS 7 only

Super new user interface

Added Context Menu support

Optional rotary time control for iPad

Optional rotary volume control for iPhone

Improved display of TV shows, movies, songs and sources

Added search on media library

Icon indicators for no-wifi, connecting, connected, disconnected states and other host related issues.

Improved display of TV series episodes

Added URL scheme support for launch from another app: sybu-xbmc://remote

Library indicator if item has been played or watched

Audio library has option to filter and search by song title

Popup floating time marker when sliding or seeking time

Username and password added for connection to XBMC host

Library and Sources display will return to last selected item

Minor bug fixes

Frodo (v12) support added

Sources, files explorer added

Queue added to Library, Sources – Files

Fixed display of empty playlist when XBMC was stopped

Minor UI tweaks

App name changed from RC Eden to Sybu Remote Control for XBMC

Display of Media Library for Movies, TV Shows and Music

Larger navigation control for iPhone

Improved layout of the iPhone interface

Initial Release