So far I got it working, just not sure on the efficacy. Right now the remote is pinging KODI every 3 seconds. Good thing about KODI is it handles that very well. Been doing that for years from DemoPad with out any issues. So far the remote handles it nicely. I am not pulling a tun of data over so it seems to be fast. I know at some point I want to make it so that the remote makes the socket connection when I load the page and keeps it open till I leave the page. Not sure if that's a good idea or not. For now I want to get a progress slider up and running. Pretty basic so far.

Thanks for your help.