Reminder?

[MaidenQuebec]

Hi,

I am trying to set a reminder in EWA and the button change for Kill Reminder which makes me think it's should work but when the show starts I get no warning, popup or anything?

Am I missing something?

I am using GB-PVR 1.2.13 (PVRX2 only)

Thanks!

[UncleJohnsBand]

Hi,

I am trying to set a reminder in EWA and the button change for Kill Reminder which makes me think it's should work but when the show starts I get no warning, popup or anything?

Am I missing something?

I am using GB-PVR 1.2.13 (PVRX2 only)

Thanks!

What do you have the Reminder Notification field on the Config tab set to? That tells EWA when it should start to display a reminder.

[MaidenQuebec]

It's set at 2 minutes.
My questions is where is the reminder?
Is this a popup?
Do I have to keep the EWA page open?

I've seen a little label next to where it shows the date/time, it stays there for about 1 minutes then disapear?

Is this the reminder? If it is, it's not really usefull unless you always keep the web page maximized and always stare at the screen.

Thanks!

[UncleJohnsBand]

It's set at 2 minutes.
My questions is where is the reminder?
Is this a popup?
Do I have to keep the EWA page open?

I've seen a little label next to where it shows the date/time, it stays there for about 1 minutes then disapear?

Is this the reminder? If it is, it's not really usefull unless you always keep the web page maximized and always stare at the screen.

Thanks!

Yep....that is it. Many do find it useful.

People set the time at 2 hours or 5 hours or even a day or so in advance. They couple the reminder notification with the auto-search feature that executes saved searches.

The search runs.....flags programmes that match their criteria and sets a reminder. Then (with more than a 2 minute notice ) they see that programmes x, y, and z are coming up....they can click on the link...read the programme description and then choose to remove the reminder or schedule the programme to record.

Some of the usefulness was reduced with the introduction of auto-record which is just like auto-search (it executes your saved searches that are flagged for auto-search) except instead of setting a reminder on matching programmes it automatically schedules them to record.

[MaidenQuebec]

I get the idea. It's a more long term reminder than those on my cable box telling me the program is starting in a few minutes but yours is usefull as well.

I set it at 7 days and it's fine.

Just one more question. How come the reminders are not ordered by date?
Is there a way to make them ordered by date/time?

Another thing, where are those reminders stored? I would like to develop something that would run in the background (an icon in teh system tray) and alert me a few minutes before the show starts. I always have my monitor on.

Thanks for this great plugin!

[UncleJohnsBand]

I get the idea. It's a more long term reminder than those on my cable box telling me the program is starting in a few minutes but yours is usefull as well.

I set it at 7 days and it's fine.

Just one more question. How come the reminders are not ordered by date?
Is there a way to make them ordered by date/time?

Another thing, where are those reminders stored? I would like to develop something that would run in the background (an icon in teh system tray) and alert me a few minutes before the show starts. I always have my monitor on.

Thanks for this great plugin!

There not in date order becasue when I call the API for a list of programmes with reminders on them they do not come back in that order....I can look into doing some sort of sort perhaps...not sure how difficult that would be.

The reminder is actually a property on the programme object.....you can call the API to ger a list of programmes that contain reminders.

You would just need to (on some interval) loop through the process of pulling the list of programmes that have reminders set and then look at each individual programme to see if it is scheduled to be on within your desired notification period.

It would not really be that hard to do....you can use the code below that I use and adapt to your needs.

Code:

public string GetReminders()
        {
            
            Settings guideParams = Global.Settings;
            Schedule scheduleHelper = Global.Schedule;
            ArrayList reminders = scheduleHelper.GetReminderList();
            string temptitle = string.Empty;
            string returnReminders = string.Empty;
            string onclick = string.Empty;
            string href = string.Empty;
            foreach (Programme reminder in reminders)
            {
                TimeSpan span = reminder.getStartTime() - DateTime.Now;
                int minutes = span.Minutes;
                if (span.Days > 0)
                {
                    minutes = minutes + ((span.Days * 24) * 60);
                }
                if (span.Hours > 0)
                {
                    minutes = minutes + (span.Hours * 60);
                }
                if ((minutes <= Convert.ToInt32(guideParams.reminder) && minutes > 0) || (minutes == 0 && span.Seconds < -30))
                {
                    href = "Details.aspx?id=" + reminder.getOID();
                    ScheduledRecording checkSchedule = scheduleHelper.GetScheduledRecordingByOID(reminder.getOID());
                    if ( checkSchedule != null)
                    {
                        href += "&rid=" + reminder.getOID();
                    }
                    onclick = " onclick=\"EditPop5(this.href,'Add2');return false;\"";
                    temptitle += "<span class=\"timeHighlight\">" + reminder.getStartTime().ToShortDateString() + " " + reminder.getStartTime().ToShortTimeString() + "</span> " +
                            reminder.getTitle();
                    temptitle = "<a href=\"" + href + "\"" + onclick + ">" + temptitle + "</a><br>";
                    returnReminders += temptitle;
                    temptitle = string.Empty;
                }
            }
            if (returnReminders != string.Empty)
            {
                reminders.Clear();
                reminders.TrimToSize();
                return returnReminders;
            }
            else
            {
                reminders.Clear();
                reminders.TrimToSize();
                return "";  
            }
        }