System Plugin for nPVR - Early Beta

[steeb]

Try this hack. I don't have any time to test it right now, but let me know how you get on...

Pop up tells me that recording service restarted, logs also indicate that this is true!

What I meant by don't want can have etc is that for me it is great to have these options but in demo to Mrs Steeb twice now she just clicks on say reboot and server goes off to reboot. Then I remembered about the confirmation 'pop up'! At some point mucking about I must have turned this off from 'always'! Could restart recording service have confirmation pop up also?

Cheers

Steeb

[Jaggy]

This is probably a red hearing as I have had trouble with the restart Recording Service right from when sub re-introduced it but I get an error popup & this error in my logs but it does actually re-start.

Code:

2010-09-10 10:47:46.998    [DEBUG][1]    FadeThroughTransitionHelper.GetRenderList() created
2010-09-10 10:47:47.248    [DEBUG][1]    FadeThroughTransitionHelper.GetRenderList() transition complete
2010-09-10 10:47:48.580    [DEBUG][1]    Frame Render Rate=69.3445892333984
2010-09-10 10:47:55.790    [ERROR][1]    System Plugin: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not been completed.
   at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus desiredStatus, TimeSpan timeout)
   at NSystem.NSystemPower.DoServiceRestart() in E:\Documents\Documents\Programming\NSystem\NSystem\NSystemPower.cs:line 162
2010-09-10 10:48:10.251    [INFO][1]    Exiting...
2010-09-10 10:48:10.251    [INFO][1]    Done.

Damn more skinning now required by me because of the extra button & the render order of the elements & I have just finished doing a release on the wiki

One other comment from a users point of view..... could you move the Restart Service button down the list, say under the Update EPG button as there are times when pressing the button toooooo hard on the remote makes it execute the first item in the list when it enters & that could be threatening to life & limb if it restarts the recording service at the wrong time!!!! steeb's suggestion of a confirm popup would also overcome this possible issue. But I still think it would be better down the list.

[mvallevand]

Surely it is better to work with sub to figure out why you would ever want to restart the recording service from within a program would be better than this "feature"

It also should not work from Vista, Win7 because of UAC so it's a support time bomb.

Martin

[steeb]

One other comment from a users point of view..... could you move the Restart Service button down the list, say under the Update EPG button as there are times when pressing the button toooooo hard on the remote makes it execute the first item in the list when it enters & that could be threatening to life & limb if it restarts the recording service at the wrong time!!!! steeb's suggestion of a confirm popup would also overcome this possible issue. But I still think it would be better down the list.

I think double confirmation with pop up would be OK as back up but don't forget (like I did about the pop up) that also the order of the menu items has been built into this plugin too :-) (I forgot this as well!)

Steeb

[Jaggy]

I think double confirmation with pop up would be OK as back up but don't forget (like I did about the pop up) that also the order of the menu items has been built into this plugin too :-) (I forgot this as well!) Steeb

Ummm errr :o Oops yeah I missed both of those options when I looked at the setting screen

[imilne]

Surely it is better to work with sub to figure out why you would ever want to restart the recording service from within a program would be better than this "feature"

It also should not work from Vista, Win7 because of UAC so it's a support time bomb.

I'm inclined to agree with Martin here, despite hacking in support

I don't have a UAC-enabled system to test on, and I've also just noticed that the NPVR start menu options for starting/stopping the service use "NPVRServiceControl.exe", so I may need to call that to do things properly rather than interacting with the service directly. Either way, it's not something I'm very confident of messing about with.

Iain

[Northpole]

Hi Imilne,

Thanks for the useful plugin! Any chance of getting npvr style buttons in the next update?

[imilne]

Hi Imilne,

Thanks for the useful plugin! Any chance of getting npvr style buttons in the next update?

Possibly, if the number of buttons it uses will actually fit. But any and all programming from me is on hold just now anyway - my wife had our baby 11 weeks premature and most of my time is spent at the hospital just now. I do intend to get back to this and the movie plugin thing I'd started, but it may be a while!

Iain

[sub]

Possibly, if the number of buttons it uses will actually fit. But any and all programming from me is on hold just now anyway - my wife had our baby 11 weeks premature and most of my time is spent at the hospital just now. I do intend to get back to this and the movie plugin thing I'd started, but it may be a while!

Wow - congratulations. I hope all is well.

[Northpole]

Possibly, if the number of buttons it uses will actually fit. But any and all programming from me is on hold just now anyway - my wife had our baby 11 weeks premature and most of my time is spent at the hospital just now. I do intend to get back to this and the movie plugin thing I'd started, but it may be a while!

Iain

Congratulations... Wish you & your family good health!