RSS Capabilities

Dava · 2008-06-21, 01:20 PM

Hi,

I have an AlphaCool LCD display in the front of my HTPC which accepts RSS feeds. I have successfully set up a "Now Recording" screen and a "Recording Next" screen but I would like to add more detail.

Can I get the ending time of the current recording?
Can I get details on each tuner's current recording?
Can the Pending recordings feed be sorted in reverse order?
Can I get the status of which channel is being watched in LiveTV mode?
Can I get the name of the current recording when being played back?
can I get the position or time remaining of the currently watched recording?

I don't understand whether this is just a case of adding new "filter=" commands on the end of the address and what they would be, or whether EWA even has access to this info.

Any help appreciated.

UncleJohnsBand · 2008-06-21, 04:05 PM

Dava Wrote:Hi,
Can I get the ending time of the current recording?

The ending time is already available in the RSS Feed For In-Progress recordings:

Show Title

Today, June 21, 2008, 26 minutes ago
Subtitle: Show Subtitle
Recording Type: In-Progress
Recorded Date: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Recorded Time: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Recorded Channel: 2 WHP
Show Description:

Dava Wrote:Hi,
Can I get details on each tuner's current recording?
Can the Pending recordings feed be sorted in reverse order?
Can I get the status of which channel is being watched in LiveTV mode?
Can I get the name of the current recording when being played back?
can I get the position or time remaining of the currently watched recording?

Can I get details on each tuner's current recording? No.
Can the Pending recordings feed be sorted in reverse order? This would be the responsibility of the client app....the feed has all the info...the client app should be able to sort/arrange/display the data as it sees fit....RSS is nothing more then an XML document for applications to read and display as they so desire.
Can I get the status of which channel is being watched in LiveTV mode? No.
Can I get the name of the current recording when being played back? No.
can I get the position or time remaining of the currently watched No.

Dava Wrote:I don't understand whether this is just a case of adding new "filter=" commands on the end of the address and what they would be, or whether EWA even has access to this info.

Any help appreciated.

The items that you ask about are really not something you would pull via a traditional RSS feed. The items you are looking for are more operational information that should be pulled from a Web Service that exposes the applications API....which EWA currently does not have.

Dava · 2008-06-22, 02:58 PM

Thanks for the clarification. It seems that the RSS plugin for this display is very limited, you get what you get with no way to specify the level of detail, just the current/pending recording names... no times.

The problem is that there is no other way to get variable text into it, otherwise I would use Mr Slimms GBPVRCLI to pull the detail and send it to the display with AutoIt.

They do plan to add a variable text plugin in the future so I can do more when it comes.

This display looks really good in my HTPC and COULD be very informative when the new plugins come, at the moment they seem to more geared towards CPU load/Fan speed/MB temp etc.