Could you please post the source to that executable that is included with your skin?

Thanks.

I just started a thread in the Developers forum called GBPVR Web . It is soliciting comments. If you have a interest in this topic I suggest going there and commenting.

I am sitting here at work (and not working ) thinking about doing a web interface (service) after weather is complete and had a couple thoughts.

1) Sub, could I get info from you on the database layout and if possible some examples of the C# code you use to access the data?  If you didn't want to post that yet, email would be fine.  Actually your code that displays the guide would be extremely helpful too.  Save me development time and would make the web guide look as much like the native guide as possible.  Of course the same holds true for recording screens etc. too.  So I guess you could just give a drop of the whole app  hehe

2) I was thinking of using the Apache web server (http://www.apache.org).  It is free, has a Windows version, is fairly well known, and (apparently) supports C# web services.  

Basic features of guide viewing, schedule a recording, view current recording schedule, and view previous recordings would be supported at first.

My only hesitation would be that I will not have time to support people trying to get Apache running.  And I would be worried that people who didn't know what they were doing could be completely opening up their machines or home networks.  I would be putting a BIG disclaimer around that second concern.

Any thoughts or comments?

Source Code included!!!

Fixes:
Fixed meory leak, should be faster to shutdown.

New Features:
Everything is skinable and uses a superset of sub's skin definition. And if you chose something else than the default skin Blue, and there is no skin directory in that skin, it will use blue as default.
Change your language! You can select a diffrent language from the settings. The skin must have support for that language or english will be used.
Swedish language, besides English. Only in the Blue skin.
Extensive error checking for the skin. Will tell you exactley what element it didn't find.
Much of the code moved to the Common namespace.
More coments in code.

Known bugs:
You can not cange the button name in Mainmenu (Core_Name in the skin) or the button wonât show. Iâve posted this problem to sub...

Download at http://andrei.ignat.se/ShutDownPlugin.zip
Read the license agreement in the sourcecode directorz (it's short).

I want to change the text for my plugin on it's button on MainMenu dynamicly. The text that is to be shown is returned by getName().

The problem is that if it return's another text than the one it was enabled in the configuration program it won't show up in the list at all.

Sub, could you please sneak in a new helper function for the next release?

PluginHelperFactory.getPluginHelper().GetInstallDirectory()

Which would return the directory gb-pvr is installed in.

I would like this because I want to install the weather icons under the media folder because they are not skin specific.

Thanks.

I have a PVR 350. I'm using two sources. The first is basic cable straight into the rf input. Channels on basic are 1-100. I used the EPG to load the channels and then I disabled all the channels above 100.

My secound source is the digital cable box into the SVideo of the 350. I used the EPG to load the channels and then disabled the channels from 1 - 100.

The reason I have it set up this way is the 350 tuner will not receive premium channels so all I should need to do to schedule a recording on a premium channel is set the record on the channel using the program guide as normal, and also set to record using the program guide on the cable box.

I believe the way this should work is if I select a channel below 101 GBPVR should use the basic cable source and tune to the selected channel. If I select a channel above 100, say HBO 241, then gbpvr should select the digital cable box source which is S-Video. Then I would need to use the cable box remote if I want to change channels.

Problem: If I am on channel 5 and press channel 241 it stays on 5. If I press 255 it will switch to SVideo. It seems it does not recognize all availabe channels above 100 as valid channels. I've varified that the channels are enabled. On a few instances when it's been able to switch channels, I was still receiving audio from the previous channel. This only happens when I change channels that cause it to change sources.

Is there something else I should check on my configuration?

John

We need someone with artistic talent to create custom weather icons for the weather plugin. Take a look at the 12 weather icons in the blue skin. That's what we need replaced.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Thanks!

I sent this initially to support@gbpvr.com but it came back after 3 days as 'Host unreachable'.

Saw this post on the mythtv site and thought you might want to have a look since we are using their icons now too.

My congrats to you, sub.  I'm impressed.

I would like to request/suggest the following:

- sort buttons for music/video/recordings (by title,by record date)
- display <sub-title></sub-title> from XMLTV listing
- display time in more places (handy to know how much time before recording starts)

Just wanted to let you know your work is appreciated, and to get this on the 'official wishlist'.

I'm a so-so programmer of mainly SQL and Zope background.  If I can help in the work, give me a holler.

virtually,
T8er