New Plugin: TV Listings (TV Guide Replacement)

[alibert]

Hi,

as requested by sub, I did a quick change to the way the plugin handles icons.
The icon-urls are now stored in an external file named 'IconDictionary.xml' in the plugins subdirectory.

To generate this file, I have written a small utility called "XmltvIcons", that creates the dictionary file from your xmltv-source.

See http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/XmltvIcons for details.

However, you'll have to download and replace the updated TVListings.dll from here.

-alibert

[Old Dog]

The new TV Listings plug-in is supported by Plain Jane & Appearance Manager.

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Regards,
Old Dog

[alibert]

Hi,

and any chance you could make it look in the gbpvr\media\art directory for a image if no link is in the db, this is a common directory a few plugins use for art.
i have updated my xmltv grabber to get icons (well i readded it) but for 90% of the channels there are no icons available, so it would be handy if it looked in that directory.

I've updated the plugin now to support an additional directory for image:

Use additional resource directory: Here you specify a path to a directory where additional programme-images are stored. The plugin will then look in this directory for an image-file when it opens the details-popup. For example, an image called “A-Team.jpeg” will be displayed when a programme with title “A-Team” is opened. Possible image extensions are .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp. Invalid characters in the filenames are replaced by “ “, so if you want to add an image for the show “CSI: New York”, you should name the image-file “CSI New York.gif”, with two spaces between “CSI” and “New” (sorry, the forum software merges two spaces).

-alibert

[sub]

Hi,

as requested by sub, I did a quick change to the way the plugin handles icons.
The icon-urls are now stored in an external file named 'IconDictionary.xml' in the plugins subdirectory.

To generate this file, I have written a small utility called "XmltvIcons", that creates the dictionary file from your xmltv-source.

See http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/XmltvIcons for details.

However, you'll have to download and replace the updated TVListings.dll from here.

-alibert

Thanks.

[Old Dog]

Okay so this will replace the XGuide TV Guide and the default TV Guide. So if Old Dog got this to work for NTSC then this should work for me

Well, I haven't skinned the pop-ups yet, but I'll get around to it.

Regards,
Old Dog

[alibert]

Hi,

I've just uploaded an updated version of the XmltvIcons-utility on the wiki.

The update procedure is incremental, so if you’re only downloading your xmltv-file for one day (and are not using the “Complete EPG-Reload” function of GBPVR), then the existing icon-entries in the dictionary will remain. The programme will also delete such entries in IconDictionary.xml for programmes that are no longer existant in the GBPVR-database.

-alibert

[alibert]

Hi,

I've just uploaded another new version of the plugin at the wiki:

Changes include:

Added support for genre based backgrounds:
The colours for the backgrounds can still be defined in the configuration of the built in tv guide plugin. However, you need to enable this function in the config app of the tv listings plugin, too.

Possibilty to brighten programmes that are currently on the air:
This will brighten those programmes that are currently boradcasted. This is controlled in the skin.xml-file:

Code:

<SpecialElement name="BrightenOnAirProgrammes" percent="0"/>

It's looking good with a value around 20%.

Support for icons as status indicators for scheduled recordings:
Also defined in the skin.xml, this will give you the opportunity to use small images instead of the coloured backgrounds for scheduled recordings.

Code:

<SpecialElement name="ScheduledRecordings" useBackgoundColors="true" useIndicatorIcons="false"/>

The images used are also defined as composite images in the skin file.

I've also attached a new screenshot (indeed not the included Blue skin) to give you an impression of the new features:


Please make sure that you also update your skin.xml-file - it won't work with the old skin.

-alibert

[reven]

thanks for the graphic icons instead of the backgrounds, also i did notice something the other day (well 2 things), when scheduling a recording to record all programmes they werent updated to be "red"
and also if i manually dump files in the media dir i specify after the plugin is loaded it doesnt seem to notice the pictures are there untill after i exit gbpvr and restart it.
and also if it fails to get an image from the internet (bad url or whatever in the xmltv file (yeah this is my bad i will fix later, but still)) it doesnt check the media directory at all for images, can you make it fail back to that directory if it fails to download the image ?

btw i love this plugin

[alibert]

Hi,

also i did notice something the other day (well 2 things), when scheduling a recording to record all programmes they werent updated to be "red"

I could reproduce this behaviour, but only in a very special case:

1a) Go to a programme, select quick record or record once.
1b) Wife says: "Record all of those shows!"
2) Okay, open the same programme, and cancel the scheduled recording again.
3) Open it once again, schedule the programme to "record all episodes" (daily/weekly doesn't matter)

Result is: The recording group is created, but the first initial programme is not scheduled. It is still marked as STATUS_DELETED (== 6) in the database, because of step (2) above. All other shows with the same title on other days are scheduled fine.
But I could already find a fix for it, the problem was using 'ScheduledRecording.GROUP_ALLOCATE' when recording once. I've changed it to 'ScheduledRecording.GROUP_NONE' and then it worked fine.
I will upload the updated plugin later today.

Reven, did you do something similar when the recording status was not updated? Or did you just do a 'fresh' season recording? Are the logs telling something obvious?

and also if i manually dump files in the media dir i specify after the plugin is loaded it doesnt seem to notice the pictures are there untill after i exit gbpvr and restart it.

That's how I implemented it, the plugin does check the image-directory only once at startup. I don't think that I'll change this behaviour in the future.

and also if it fails to get an image from the internet (bad url or whatever in the xmltv file (yeah this is my bad i will fix later, but still)) it doesnt check the media directory at all for images, can you make it fail back to that directory if it fails to download the image ?

Yes, I think this is possible. I will have a look at this one later.

-alibert

[reven]

That's how I implemented it, the plugin does check the image-directory only once at startup. I don't think that I'll change this behaviour in the future.

why not just do something like

Code:

if(File.Exists(imagedir + RemoveSpecialChars(showtitle)  + ".jpg"))
previewImage = Image.FromFile(imagedir + RemoveSpecialChars(showtitle)  + ".jpg");

that way when i download new images with my vids or whatever, it will be automatically visible in the the guide, the check only takes a few milliseconds so wont impact on the performance.

and i cant remember how the recording status thing happened, it may have just been a once off, and the logs are long gone by now.