Feature requests and my views!

[esajesa]

Hi!

First off, thanks, excellent application! Been playing with it the whole day now, and I have a few thoughts and a few ideas on features:

1. In the TV Guide, when you highlight a show, it'd be nice if the start-end times would appear in the show description in the bottom of the screen.

2. If I choose a show that's currently on, it'd be nice to be able to jump straight to Live TV.

3. Just as I can press F1 to go straight to the TV Guide, F2 to go to Live TV, I'd like to be able to press, say F9, or whatever, to go straight to Recordings.

4. When I'm in Live TV and I press F1 I won't go to the "big" tv guide, but some smaller version overlayed on the screen. My personal preference would be to go to the "real" guide, and have a different button pressed for the small, overlayed one. This way navigation via eg. a remote can be made more exact and controlled.

5. It would be nice to have some sort of indication of the GBPVR Recording Service status if you open up the OSD in Live TV.

Ok.. Then on to the "BIG" feature request(s) of the day!

1. Since there's already a girder client built in (for the channel changer part), it'd be SOOOO nice to have it evolved to send more info, in other events such as which panel I'm on (eg. Live TV, TV Guide, Recordings, DVD etc etc), recording status, perhaps even which menu buttons there are on the screen.

2. Then of course, a majour user of Girder as I am, I'd like to have a remote port for controlling GBPVR, preferably one for the GUI and one for the Recording service stuff. I'd like to be able to send commands such as UP, DOWN, ENTER, TVGUIDE, LIVETV, CHANNEL1, CHANNEL2, etc etc..


The reason I ask for these features is that I use Girder in conjunction with NetRemote, and I love softwares that can be controlled in a good fashion, as well as provide feedback. Right now I've used the Channel Changer with Girder to provide some sort of feedback, but it'd be lovely to have it properly done with the ability to get feedback on other things as well.

Otherwise, I love it!!! Keep up the good work!!!

Cheers,
Jens

[reven]

2. If I choose a show that's currently on, it'd be nice to be able to jump straight to Live TV.

just push play on the show.

3. Just as I can press F1 to go straight to the TV Guide, F2 to go to Live TV, I'd like to be able to press, say F9, or whatever, to go straight to Recordings.

these functions are for the 45 button remote shortcut keys, you can map these to whatever plugin you want (just look in the config.xml file), i mapped the defaultradio to recordings (f6 or something)

4. When I'm in Live TV and I press F1 I won't go to the "big" tv guide, but some smaller version overlayed on the screen. My personal preference would be to go to the "real" guide, and have a different button pressed for the small, overlayed one. This way navigation via eg. a remote can be made more exact and controlled.

thats just silly. you can change the live guide to display more channels if you want, just look at the skin.

[esajesa]

thats just silly. you can change the live guide to display more channels if you want, just look at the skin.

Thanks.. It might be silly to you, but it's not to me.

[sub]

1) I dont currently due to lack of available space.

3) It actually designed for the remote, not the keyboard. There is no "recordings" button, so I didnt add the underlying keyboard shortcut. I see where you're coming from though, so I'll see if I can add this at some stage.

4) This is just a skinning thing. I designed GB-PVR's default blue skin to show a small guide when in watching video. You can easily alter the skin or create your own skin to show the full guide.

Sorry, I'm not really a girder fan, so anything girder related is low priorty. All I can commit to is "maybe in a future release".

[Pioneer4x4]

3) It actually designed for the remote, not the keyboard. There is no "recordings" button, so I didnt add the underlying keyboard shortcut. I see where you're coming from though, so I'll see if I can add this at some stage.

Sub, I second that one, but I guess I could remap a button right?