A Teaser :P

[UncleJohnsBand]

just an update, the first alpha will have an installer which will install UltiDev webserver (so you wont need IIS) or need to do any configuring.

it will also install any prerequisites needed (except NPVR of course).

I have 7 tickets left to close on github before releasing, just writing some more unit tests and trying to impove the guide speed.


tl;dr: installer that does everything for you.

Sounds good.....I am interested in taking a look as soon as ready.

[reven]

I'm thinking of making the first alpha a private alpha (source code is up so if you really want to you can download it yourself and do it), just not to keen on loads of people installing it (who never post on the forums and who wont post issues) thinking its "alpha" but ready.

this really isnt ready for general use, there will be bugs, and I want a small set of users willing to try it and do proper bug reports and open tickets on github.

the biggest areas to test are
- multiple user setup
- multiple user setup with a user using NextPVR frontend, want to make sure theres no real issues when using NPVR and xbmc with users (npvr wont support users, but should work still)
- IE 9, Firefox testing, I mainly test against chrome
- Windows XP users, im setting up a Windows XP vm to test against, but that will be a quick test
- users using NPVR in unconventional ways, in case theres something NPVR does which I'm not aware of
- Non english users, there is support for "translations" but not everything will be translated atm, and its a manual translation file that
needs to be maintained. This will be more focussed on in the beta, but wanted to make sure it works.
- going from multiple users to single user and back again.
- i do actually want some people to do some real testing. not just install and use. this will stay in alpha until I am happy with it, the beta I am hoping will be a fairly stable version and then I will add mobile support (generic iphone, ipad, android etc using jquery mobile).

so if you want to be a real alpha tester, PM me.

note: I will be putting in one piece of "tracking code" for google analytics just to determine the most used browsers, screen resolutions, operating systems. this will be in one file and if you want you can delete it. I'll make this really clear when I post the alpha. it will just be the standard google code, only for the things I listed.

[reven]

also I'm looking for someone to help provide xbmc-addon builds for me for the following systems
- linux 32
- linux 64
- raspberrypi (I flashed mine since I last did a build on this)

just against my fork from subs xbmc addon, I'll do a pull to make sure my repo is up to date with his.

[carpeVideo]

try installing mvc4, the alpha package/zip will contain these dlls in them so that wont be required

oh and its fine to download and look at it, but i really dont recommend actually using it ATM, still incomplete (checkout the tickets on github, ive got a few more to create for the alpha as well, but you can see the progress and the pace at which im going).

No problems - As I said I have never done any ASP.net programming - I thought I would check out your project as one way to start learning. Always more fun than "Hello World", so even though your alpha installs all pre-req's I'd like to have it going in a dev environment as well. Thanks!

[reven]

ive completed the installer (does everything for you, works on windows xp, doesnt use IIS, creates shortcut on desktop, port is 8877), just really need 1 good day to fix the tv guide then i can ship the first alpha.

sadly that day wont be today, i have a 3 year old who wants to be entertained

ive deferred a few tickets for alpha 2, but the guide needs some improvements. also needing the xbmc addon builds.

[carpeVideo]

FYI - I installed MVC - and still get the

Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'NextPvrWebConsole.WebApiApplication'.

Error - any other suggestions?

[reven]

its a webapi project, you should only need visual studio 2012 express web and mvc 4.

if you go to new project and you dont have an option for WebAPI then its not properly installed. this is just for the loading the code, actual released version wont need this.

[carpeVideo]

Ok, further along -I registered the bin directory as an app on top of the site in IIS - now I get a new error.

"Could not load file or assembly 'Glimpse.Core' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."

Am I missing another dependency (PS if this is annoying let me know I understand helping noobs can be a pain)

[reven]

you should need to touch IIS if you want to open it up in visual studio and play with the code.

glimpse is something I'm trialing for asp.net debugging, it shows a lot of tracing info, havent found it all that useful yet though so I may remove it.

if you delete all the glimpse stuff from the web.config file that should probably fix that error.

[carpeVideo]

Thanks, I got it to start in both IIS and CS now - but it sets up a new account and after when you enter the new ID and password it simply restarts at the login page