It has been a couple of days since the last update, but I am excited to share what I have been working on in that time:

Search

To be able to quickly search through your own library of content is something that I have needed for awhile and makes it easier for the rest of the family to find the movies they want to see rather than browsing through the library to the correct folder.

The technical side really isn’t that interesting. I am using SQLite on the Tv, and using the C api to interact with the local database. The title, description, actors, directors and genres are all indexed and all searched at the same time. That means that a more freeform search such as “Children” will return children movies and searching for Vin Diesel will return his movies in your library. There is still some performance tweaks that have to be done before shipping but here is a sneak peak:

Thanks for reading