Hi all! As you may have noticed some of us have been beavering away on the new wiki trying to document N-PVR and all it has to offer.
This is a shameless plug for it, and also a call out for any and all feedback regarding what could be changed, added or even removed. Comments regarding overall style and appearance are also on-topic.
There is a new API available for iMON (the VFD/LCD display) that many HTPC cases are equipped with.
I am a bad boy to cross-post info about it here so noone misses it. I think it is that important!
The original post with more info is here: [URL="http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?48176-New-iMon-Display-API-available%21&p=390932#post390932"]http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?48176-New-iMon-Display-API-available!&p=390932#post390932
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I guess we need some sort of support in NPVR to fully support this. I am thinking some kind of event API from NPVR that a plugin dev can hook into and "subscribe" to the kind of events he is interested in. That "code pattern" is common in Java for getting events for a GUI for instance. You just become a listener of a type, register yourself and recieve event of the type you want. For NPVR that could be "new music file started: name mysong.mp3, etc etc". The listener interface has it´s strength in that it is not polling. Polling is bad and takes resources when not needed. The listener interface would be more "interrupt" driven. Then of course we would neeed to get the standard stuff like pending recordings, currently playing etc. And those would have to come from standard API methods.
I haven't looked into how to develop plugins but this would be something I would want...
The support for external displays has been medioker in gb-pvr and only been possible via clumsy external hooks. Is the time here to change that?
P.S I might be persuaded to look into Windows programming again if there was enough demand on a plugion of this sort D.S
EDIT: I tried installing this and it went without issues on my win 7 x64. The USB iMON device got it's driver. However the program refuse to start, saying my HW is ANTEC VFD and not iMON VDF. So for some it might work, but not for me as it seems. :mad:
I was searching for an upgraded version of the iMON sofware for my VFD display on my Antec Fusion case and stumbled upon a new release from Soundgraph, the authors of iMON SW/HW.
There is a new API available that hooks into the iMON manager in plugin mode and takes full control over it. Supports both VFD and LCD mode + all icons. Even equalizer-data can be set.
This API would be a perfect base for a new plugin for NPVR that could display all sorts of data on the VFD/LCD without the hassle of using LCDSmartie, generating external text strings etc. It would be perfectly integrated in the plugin code. If I was a bit more fluent on Windows programming I would start right away, unfortunaltely I am more on the Java side :o.
Quote:1. About iMON Display API
SoundGraph have supplied the various remote control solutions and display devices to Retail market and our ODM/OEM partners. And there have been lots of requests from our users and 3rd party developers to open API for iMON display devices.
For this reason we release iMON Display API now and will try to release the update of this API later after considering the request from users and 3rd party developers.
iMON Display API will help 3rd party developer to make their application to control iMON Display easily. It uses Display Plug-in mode feature of iMON, newly added in iMON 7.91.0929 Beta version. In order to make this API work properly, iMON 7.91.0929 Beta version or the later version should be installed and because this API must communicate with iMON, iMON should be always running. Currently it supports our VFD products and LCD products.
I've just upgraded from GB-PVR to N-PVR 1.5.31.
I haven't got it set to start in fullscreen, and when I click on the maximize button it goes to fullscreen as expected, but I can't find a way to go back to a window from fullscreen.
Hi,
I'm having a problem while using net radio on a client PC. The server goes to sleep and shortly afterwards the net radio will stop on the client. It can't be made to play again without waking up the server and restarting PVRX2 on the client.
Any suggestions as to how to prevent the server going into standby while net radio is playing on the client?
it is unclear to me how to install for the new NPVR solution. I have a totally new OS installation and will start from scratch. NPVR is up and running fine. All the docs mention GB-PVR and I want to know which route to go. I guess the dummies installation tool? Or?
I've installed several times in the past to great success, but my memory seems to be lacking on the specifics. Otherwise I surely would have been able to pick up the pieces of the puzzle and figure it out myself. It is safer to ask first and avoid the issues...
Thanks for some great mediacenter software, and thanks for all your hard work.
NPvr is, in my humble opinion the best and most stable version of gbpvr. Right now it's recording 2 simultaneous DVB-streams on my one tuner, and I lie down while listening to wonderful music.
This is so fuc.... nice.
It would be good if Some folders in Video Library, recordings and picture Library have a pin-code protection becouse they may have content that are not suitable for children. There should be a function for specifying a pincode that must be entered before the folder is allowed to be opened/watched.
I am a little confused about the devices configuration after using GBPVR. I don't see any way to create capture sources like you could in GBPVR. I have HVR-2250s and I'm not sure how I am going to make use of them completely. I also do not see any way to setup any external tuner channel changing or even see anything at all about external tuners. Why were there so many capture card options in GBPVR, but hardly any in NPVR? Am I missing something? Maybe somebody can point me to some documentation that explains this if there is some other way these things are done.
