Skipstone
Skipstone is a fully featured universal media player remote watch app for the Pebble Smartwatch to control media players such as Plex, VLC, XBMC, and WDTV.
Table of Contents
Plex
Features
List all clients connected to the Plex server and control any of them.
Toggle play/pause.
Press select, back, up, down, left, and right buttons.
Short and long step forward/backward.
Controls
Button
Function
Long click select
Switch between options 1/2
Double click select
Back Button
Single click select (option 1)
Select Button
Single click up (option 1)
Up Button
Single click down (option 1)
Down Button
Long click up (option 1)
Right Button
Long click down (option 1)
Left Button
Single click select (option 2)
Toggle play/pause
Single click up (option 2)
Short Forwords (+30 seconds)
Single click down (option 2)
Short Backwords (-30 seconds)
Long click up (option 2)
Long Forwords (+10 minutes)
Long click down (option 2)
Long Backwords (-10 minutes)
VLC
Features
Toggle play/pause.
Increment or decrement volume 5% and set it to lowest or highest.
Seek +- 10 seconds and +- 1 minute.
Title text on top displays the filename VLC provides, or an error if one occurs.
Status gets the status from VLC - should be "Playing", "Paused", "Stopped", or "Unknown" when not known.
Volume is displayed in a progress bar and as text; both range from 0% to 200% (0% when unknown).
Seek progress bar shows how far in the movie you are.
Controls
Button
Function
Single click select
Toggle play/pause
Long click select
Switch between option 1/2
Single click up (option 1)
Increment volume 5%
Single click down (option 1)
Decrement volume 5%
Long click up (option 1)
Set volume to 0%
Long click down (option 1)
Set volume to 200%
Single click up (option 2)
Seek +10 seconds
Single click down (option 2)
Seek -10 seconds
Long click up (option 2)
Seek +1 minute
Long click down (option 2)
Seek -1 minute
XBMC
Features
Toggle play/pause.
Press select, back, up, down, left, and right buttons.
Increment and decrement volume and set it to lowest or highest.
Seek short and long.
Title text on top displays the filename XBMC provides, or an error if one occurs.
Status displays either "Playing", "Paused", "Stopped", or "Unknown" when not known.
Volume is displayed in a progress bar and as text; both range from 0% to 100% (0% when unknown).
Seek progress bar shows how far in the movie you are.
Controls
Button
Function
Long click select
Switch between options 1/2/3
Double click select
Back Button
Single click select (option 1)
Select Button
Single click up (option 1)
Up Button
Single click down (option 1)
Down Button
Long click up (option 1)
Left Button
Long click down (option 1)
Right Button
Single click select (option 2)
Toggle play/pause
Single click up (option 2)
Short Backwords (-30 seconds)
Single click down (option 2)
Short Forwords (+30 seconds)
Long click up (option 2)
Long Backwords (-10 minutes)
Long click down (option 2)
Long Forwords (+10 minutes)
Single click select (option 3)
Toggle play/pause
Single click up (option 3)
Increment volume
Single click down (option 3)
Decrement volume
Long click up (option 3)
Set volume to 100%
Long click down (option 3)
Set volume to 0%
WDTV
Controls
Button
Function
Double click select
Switch between options 1/2/3/4
Single click up (option 1)
Rewind
Long click up (option 1)
Previous
Single click select (option 1)
Play/Pause
Long click select (option 1)
Stop
Single click down (option 1)
Forward
Long click down (option 1)
Next
Single click up (option 2)
Up
Long click up (option 2)
Left
Single click select (option 2)
OK
Long click select (option 2)
Back
Single click down (option 2)
Down
Long click down (option 2)
Right
Single click up (option 3)
Back
Long click up (option 3)
Mute
Single click select (option 3)
Home
Long click select (option 3)
Option
Single click down (option 3)
Setup
Long click down (option 3)
Power
Release Notes
v1.1.2
Make XBMC and VLC refresh status every 5 seconds.
v1.1.1
v1.1
v1.0.1
Fix XBMC authentication issue.
v1.0
License
Skipstone is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.