Who would be interested in helping with a plugin install utility?

[whurlston]

The weather plugin uses a method to look for updates and will notify users if there is a newer version. The source may be up to date on the wiki for some ideas on how to accomplish some of this.

The easiest way would be to use WebClient() to check a webpage like /Plugin/version.txt which would only have the latest version number in it like "1.3.11". Then parse that version number and compare it to the currently loaded version of the plugin.

[reven]

Its pretty much only me that could add this functionality. I have also wanted to add something like this (from webservice running on gbpvr.com), and have discussed it here a couple of years back, but it never seemed to make it high enough up the priority list to get implemented. Maybe one day though.

in the mean time, a plugin could be written to download a plugin and install it (can you run a msi without any windows popup windows? dont really want to see that on a HTPC) and then just restart the PVRX2 interface - the plugin would say "Would you like to restart PVRX2?" (or something).

the only thing that would be left to do, is make the plugin completely configurable from within the plugin (remove the need to launch the config app).

so we would need
1. a service
2. a way to register a plugin on the service, which a version number (using standard x.x.x.x version would probably be best)
3. a plugin to check this service and download them

the "windows service" i dont think is needed, a simple plugin could do this, auto updates isnt something i would want to have running, a plugin could stop working all of a sudden and the user would have no idea why. a simple notification of updated would do (something like the iphone, change the plugin name on the main menu to say "Plugins (2 Updates)" or somethign)

[mkenyon2]

Sub... how would you feel about donated code... we write something... because we know you're busy and we want to give back... that you could include in GBPVR. Of course you can't give us the source code, wouldn't ask that, but perhaps if we put together a web service and an assembly that would talk to each other. Then all you'ld have to do is the integration.

I've been thinking lately of what would it take to get this project more main-stream, and really, not much. It seems the only thing keeping it from being more heavily adopted is marketing. What I'm saying is, I think this is a great project, and I'd love to see it continue to grow and be promoted, and anything I could do to help I would.

Anyway... you've incorporated EWA into the main install, perhaps if we help put this together you could incorporate it in as well.

[Fatman_do]

in the mean time, a plugin could be written to download a plugin and install it (can you run a msi without any windows popup windows? dont really want to see that on a HTPC) and then just restart the PVRX2 interface - the plugin would say "Would you like to restart PVRX2?" (or something).

the only thing that would be left to do, is make the plugin completely configurable from within the plugin (remove the need to launch the config app).

so we would need
1. a service
2. a way to register a plugin on the service, which a version number (using standard x.x.x.x version would probably be best)
3. a plugin to check this service and download them

the "windows service" i dont think is needed, a simple plugin could do this, auto updates isnt something i would want to have running, a plugin could stop working all of a sudden and the user would have no idea why. a simple notification of updated would do (something like the iphone, change the plugin name on the main menu to say "Plugins (2 Updates)" or somethign)

The plugin name would also need to be added to the config.xml file as a "menu task" (if it finds it is not there already). This is what causes it to show up in the menu.

[zehd]

I think an expanded idea would be to include GB-PVR patches (including descriptions) and other utilities and skins.

I've always thought that whenever a new version of community skin was rolled out, the combined package download was excessive if you just wanted one updated skin...

Integrating with GB-PVR would be great, but perhaps its better to approach it similar to the EWA project, where it hooks on the outside and can be updated and used independantly. Certainly for GB-PVR patches, it would be better for an independant program, so that it may be able to heal a broken GB-PVR install.

[reven]

I think an expanded idea would be to include GB-PVR patches (including descriptions) and other utilities and skins.

I've always thought that whenever a new version of community skin was rolled out, the combined package download was excessive if you just wanted one updated skin...

Integrating with GB-PVR would be great, but perhaps its better to approach it similar to the EWA project, where it hooks on the outside and can be updated and used independantly. Certainly for GB-PVR patches, it would be better for an independant program, so that it may be able to heal a broken GB-PVR install.

yeah i agree, the community skin is excessive, if you could download a bare minimum version of that skin, and then download "themes" for that skin, via a plugin within gbpvr, that would be cool.

just wondering, is anyone actually going to take the lead on this? or are we all just talking about what would be cool, but no one is actually going to do it?

[zehd]

yeah i agree, the community skin is excessive, if you could download a bare minimum version of that skin, and then download "themes" for that skin, via a plugin within gbpvr, that would be cool.

just wondering, is anyone actually going to take the lead on this? or are we all just talking about what would be cool, but no one is actually going to do it?

I thought I saw your hand go up, Reven!!!

[reven]

I thought I saw your hand go up, Reven!!!

too busy on the videos plugin and the gbpvrlibrary

[Fatman_do]

I've always thought that whenever a new version of community skin was rolled out, the combined package download was excessive if you just wanted one updated skin...

We have gone to incremental updates several months ago, and are going to bust out the themes as separate downloads in the future. Just FYI more than anything else.

[reven]

We have gone to incremental updates several months ago, and are going to bust out the themes as separate downloads in the future. Just FYI more than anything else.

now just imagine if you could download and install a new theme from with gbpvr and now someone make it