v4.33 – February 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed TV show seasons not collapsing fully on iPad
- Fixed TV show episode cells not utilising the full available space on iPad
- Fixed crashing in Media Library
v4.32 – 07 February 2025
New Widget:
- Introduced new widget with now-playing item view as well as seek and player controls
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed blank screen when navigating from drawer menu on iPad
- Fixed movie poster cut off on iPad in movie info view
- Fixed movies and tv shows item cells not taking up all the space in their row on iPad
- Fixed movie info screen cast items wrong size
- Fixed music view not going back to full screen after rotating from landscape mode
- Fixed movies and tv shows items too large when rotating back from landscape mode
v4.31 – 08 January 2025
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed empty view when selecting already selected media view from left-side drawer menu
v4.30 – 09 December 2024
New Features:
- Introduced the following new widgets:
- Small Now Playing Controls Widget: Includes Play, Pause, Stop, Previous, and Next buttons
- Small Navigation Controls Widget: Offers Up, Down, Left, Right, OK, Home, and Back navigation
- Medium Combined Widget: Merges Now Playing controls and navigation for a compact, versatile option
- Large SYBU Playlists Widget: Allows viewing SYBU playlists and resuming playback directly
v4.21 – 22 July 2024
New Features:
- Option to show or hide recent movies/TV shows/music view
Media Library > Movies/TV Shows/Music > Options (vertical ellipsis) > Recents
- Option to show or hide in-progress movies/TV shows view
Media Library > Movies/TV Shows/Music > Options > In Progress
- Option to disable navigation or enable gestures on main (remote) screen
Setup/Info > Controls > Navigation Gestures
Improvements:
- Faster loading speed for large media libraries by fetching in batches
v4.20 – 04 July 2024
Sybu Playlists
- Create custom playlists for your music, movies or TV shows
- Share your custom playlist with other people (must have access to the same host)
- View your playlists on other available hosts
- Disable Sybu playlists and revert to previous behaviour
Read more about Sybu Playlists here
In progress view TV shows/movies
- View your in-progress movies or TV shows
- Resume watching
Fixes/Improvements:
- Music is now listed in track order
- Other minor fixes and improvements
v4.13 – 11 October 2022
- Bugfix. Movies. Resolved display issue which limited the list of displayed items
v4.12 – October 2022
Minor UI updates – swipe down refresh for:
- Media library > Movies > Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > TvShows > Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > Music> Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > Sources > Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > Now Playing > Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > Playlists > Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > Addons > Swipe down to refresh
- Media library > Favourites> Swipe down to refresh
v4.11 – 26 September 2022
- 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)
v4.10 – 23 September 2022
- Minor UI Update. iPhone > Landscape orientation > removed white borders on left and right side on main screen view
v4.00 – 20 September 2022
- 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
v3.63 – 12 May 2021
- Fixed. Wake-On-Lan (WoL), that was blocked by iOS 14.x upgrade. New networking entitlements received from Apple.
- New. Video Library. Clean and Scan options added for Movies or TV Series. Touch the â‹® 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 â‹® button at top right (next to search bar)
- Update. Improve setup and connection when host is manually added by hostname
v3.60 – 16 April 2021
- 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
v3.60 – 16 April 2021
- 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
v3.40 – 4 April 2018
- Improved performance when app becomes active and content is already playing.
- Minor interface enhancement for iPhone X screen layout.
v3.30 – 20 December 2017
- Support for iPhone X screen layout
v3.20 – 13 December 2017
- 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.
v3.11 – 24 April 2017
- 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.
v3.10 – 10 April 2017
- 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.
v3.00 – 29 March 2017
- 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
Version 2.00 – September 2015
- 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
Version 1.92 – 13 March 2015
- Bugfix: intermittent hang of interface, forcing reconnect, when communicating with Kodi host
Version 1.90 – 12 February 2015
- 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.
Version 1.82 – 9 January 2015
- Improved compatibility with Kodi.
- Fixed display of elapsed, remaining time for content longer than 2hrs.
- Minor user interface improvements.
Version 1.81 – 16 December 2014
- 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.
Version 1.80 – 13 October 2014
- 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.
Version 1.70 – 16 August 2014
- Show Fan Art as background in main screen. Option can be enabled Info screen.
- Fix intermittent crash on iPad during rotation after library access.
Version 1.62 – 30 July 2014
- 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.
Version 1.61 – 20 July 2014
- Bugfix. Covert art, thumbnails for TV Shows and Movies does not display correctly when connecting to XBMC version 12/13. Resolved.
Version 1.60 – 12 July 2014
- 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
Version 1.50 – 9 May 2014
- 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
Version 1.30 – 22 February 2013
- 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
Version 1.20 – 29 January 2013
- 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
Version 1.10 – 4 December 2012
- Display of Media Library for Movies, TV Shows and Music
- Larger navigation control for iPhone
- Improved layout of the iPhone interface
Version 1.0 – 13 November 2012
- Initial Release