is there something equivelent in NPVR to

PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().ForceRepaint();

?

I have a function for displaying info as

private void setText(String Text)
{
if (!activated) return;
if (TextMessage == Text) return;

TextMessage = Text;
Hashtable args = new Hashtable();
args.Add("@message", TextMessage);
TextUiStatic.Args = args;
ForceUpdate = true;
}

( I think the syntax was a little different in GB-PVR)

so I can go in my plugin (in some function)

setText("Fetching info, please wait...");

// call retrieve function, whatever that may be. this might take several seconds

setText("Got it. I'm back");

In GB-PVR, it works as expected. In NPVR, the first message is never displayed.

I tried using the class variable ForceUpdate

then in NeedsRendering I go

public override bool NeedsRendering()
{
if (ForceRender == true) {
ForceRender = false;
return true;
}
...

but it still doesn't work.
thanks

sub,

I'd added the "Exit" option to the System plugin - it used Application.Exit()

Then when you posted the AeonLike main menu example, I noticed its exit functionality called EventBus.GetInstance().Notify("EXIT")

I was just wondering if you had a list of events that nPVR will respond to. I'm not looking for anything in particular, but thought it might be handy for us all to know (and might even spark ideas for future functionality for plugins).

Thanks

Iain

Damn! - Just as I prepare to get npvr running on the main machine live, I find my EPG data has gone

After much searching I found this on one of the unixy pvr mailing lists.

Quote:After yesterday's addition of over 100 new channels to the XMLTV
service, the listings generated were empty files. This has been
rectified in today's update, so listings should be working again
normally. The main beneficiaries of the new channels would seem to be
Freesat and Sky Digital users.

I have just committed an update to channel_ids which makes the new
channels available to tv_grab_uk_rt. Updates to the regional channels
and platforms mappings will follow over the next few days - this means
the new channels must be added manually to the grabber configuration
in the meantime if you want to use them.

A cursory glance over the data this morning and noticing a significant
increase in the number of scheduled recordings leads me to believe
that fairly significant changes have been made to many programme
descriptions, which may break duplicate detection in applications such
as MythTV. If you see a lot of programmes flagged to record in MythTV
which have been recorded previously and marked as duplicates, mark
them as "Never Record".

Additionally, many more programmes now have series/episode numbering
provided. The processing routines in the grabber handle most of these
but will need some tweaking to handle new formats seen today.

Hi there - is there a way for me to manually edit the moviewiz database? I am moving my movie folders from a local drive on my PVR to a network drive and would prefer not to re-import all the entries again. I had a search on the forum though couldn't find an answer...

Thanks,

AB

Hey all,

maybe I'm just not seeing things right, but I fired up NPVR to try it out, and the timeline display doesn't make sense to me.

I've got my EPG loaded in and it all works, but the timeline always shows -00:00:00 and the current time. In GBPVR, it would properly show how much of the show has elapsed and where I am currently time-wise. Am I missing a setting or something? :confused:

picture: (click on thumb to enlarge)

I don't know where to post this, so I'll just post it here and see if any mod wants to move it somewhere else...

In looking through the forum, it seems like maybe it's time to separate GB-PVR matters from N-PVR matters completely... nothing works cross-platform, and it would certainly be confusing for a new N-PVR user trying to ferret out the newer NPVR compatible stuff from all the older stuff.

Perhaps a forum structure like this:

Information
- Announcements
- Community Announcements
NPVR Forums
- NPVR Support
- NPVR Plugin and Skin Support
+- mvallevand's npvr plugins
+- whurlston's npvr plugins
+- mcbainuk...
+- etc.
- NPVR Wishlist forum
GB-PVR Forums
- GB-PVR Support
- GB-PVR Plugin and Skin Support
+-all existing sub forums
(no point in keeping a GB-PVR wishlist, since no further wishes can be granted)
Hardware support
External tasks and Utilities
- dhgb256's Netflix viewer thread goes here, as does hoborg's SAF thread, along with other similar threads that are not specific to one app or the other.
Developers
Documentation
Generall/Off Topic

Naturally any N-PVR related threads in the various existing plugin forums would be moved by their moderators to their new N-PVR plugin forum.

This would allow older GB-PVR related info to die off as it falls out of use, rather than being dragged on forever as the same forums get reused for completely different, incompatible plugins and information. Better also to do it now before too many N-PVR threads get started.

Firstly great work on this release, just all seemed to worked first time with very little need of configuration.

Stupid question, but how do you access a compressed epg like the freeview.xml.gz on nzepg.org? I'm sure GB could just uncompress it - but then I could be wrong.

Thanks

Just in case anyone is interested, woot.co is selling a new SiliconDust HDHR for only $84.99

OK... If I currently have a UiScreen displaying, I can display a title and image using (pseudo):

I made the mistake of putting too many items in one thread and it is starting to get messy. So I am opening this thread separately to request that recording padding defaults are added to the Settings so that you dont need to set the pre and post padding on each recording. Not a biggy but it was a nice feature in GBPVR.