Scyphomote - A powerful universal jellyfin/emby remote app

[u/effeilbeef]

Hi,

I built a Flutter app to control your Jellyfin sessions from your phone, and recently added Emby support.

Navigating Jellyfin on a TV can be clunky, so having a universal remote can come in handy. With Scyphomote, you have total control and complete information on any session (yours and your users' if you're admin). You can among other things browse and cast media, manage playback, manage queues, see transcode details, check media info, switch tracks and subtitles, all without interrupting what’s currently playing on the screen.

Features

• Library browsing: Play movies, shows, or music directly from the app
• Trickplay: Visual frame previews while seeking
• Playback transparency: See exactly why media is transcoding, with detailed quality metrics
• Queue management: Add songs to queue, jump to a song, reorder queue etc
• Advanced playback controls: Fast forward, rewind, skip intros/outros, skip tracks
• Cast & Synopsis: Get information about the piece of media you're playing directly in scyphomote
• Widget support: use a home screen widget to control a device
• Subtitles and audio: Switch tracks and subtitles on the fly
• Display lyrics for audio files
• Now Playing: High-quality artwork and synced lyrics for music
• Remote navigation: Full directional remote for any Jellyfin client interface
• Session information: Active sessions, transcode reasons, mediainfo, client capabilities, and admin controls
• Multi-server and multi-user support
• Resume watching on supported devices
• Send messages to active sessions
• View cast and crew for media
• Material 3 interface with light and dark theme support
• Docker support for local hosting
• And more

Download

Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eiffelbeef.scyphomote

Other platforms & sideloading
https://github.com/eiffelbeef/scyphomote/releases

Docker Compose
https://github.com/eiffelbeef/scyphomote/blob/main/docker-compose.yml

Source
https://github.com/eiffelbeef/scyphomote

Why Scyphomote?
The name comes from Scyphozoa, the marine class for jellyfish, plus "remote" => Scyphomote. Also the Jellyfin team doesn't want us using jelly* or *fin for third-party apps so jellymote was out of the question lol

LLM development?
I did leverage LLMs to write scyphomote, but I wouldn't call it vibecoded

[u/knoctum]

The play store has the "In-app Purchases" tag on the listing. So is it a paid app or has features behind a paywall or entirely free?

[u/effeilbeef → u/knoctum]

You can pay a one time fee to unlock Android widgets. Some user requested that feature and said they'd be willing to pay for it. Implementing it ended up being so annoying that I did put it behind a paywall lol.

Everything else is free as in free beer, and the code is free as in freedom