Recording Status on the Main Screen and EPG update

[BenTO]

This is a great product and my compliments to Sub and the plug-in authors for all the great stuff.


1)  Current Status of Recordings I'm not sure if this is a skin thing or whether it is suppported already, but it would be nice to see on the main screen whether GBPVR is recording something at that time or not.  Currently, I have to go to Recordings, Pending to see if my show is recording at that time.

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2)  Update EPG manually  My EPG auto update doesn't work on schedule all the time (must be a problem of waking up from Hibernate to update the EPG) or some other user error.  The only way I know of GBPVR manually updating the EPG is via the Config program.  I'd like to kick off an EPG update from the main menu if possible.

Ben

[sub]

1) you can sort of already do this by editing C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr\skin\Blue\main menu\skin.xml and enabling the "NextRecording" panel which is currently commented out.

2) You can manually update the epg from the config app. I dont want a button which updates the epg in the application itself.

[smeghead]

Can you not just add a "custom task" in config - plugins to add a menu item to run the batch file?

[sub]

By batch file, I assume you mean one the user would create containing the 'GBPVR.exe -OnlyUpdateEPG' command? Yes, you can do this - but GB-PVR wont realise the guide has been updated and wont reload the tv listing on the tv guide screen (which is why I didnt mention it). Other than this, yes this would work fine.

[BenTO]

Just wanted to thank you Sub for the reply. The update EPG request will be solved when the scheduling bug for EPG is in.

The NextRecordings panel does what I want to let me know what is recording now.

Thanks again!

Ben