TV Listings - Support Thread

[alibert]

Hi,

If you can get it working on the client then that would be great, its nice to have everything consistent.

I think I managed to use the database of the server in a client/server setup, so the next release will work from a client - but it will take about a week until I publish it.

-alibert

[alibert]

Hi,

I select a show from the TV Listings for reoccurring recording and change the default padding time. The show will then appear in the Recordings under reoccurring with the updated padding time but the individual recordings will have the default padding.

I will have a look the next days, maybe I'll need some additional information. I will ask again if it's the case.

I hope, this can be solved easily...

Me too.

-alibert

[alibert]

Hi,

I dont know if this the following question is skin related or not but with the TV Guide plug-in I have the number of channels to display set to 5. With the default settings of the TV Listings plugin it shows 7 channels at a time. Is there a way to set number of channels in the skin.xml file? Am I blind and missed an obvious preferences option?

there's the following line in the skin.xml file:

Code:

<SpecialElement name="Guide" loc="120,80" size="540,280" visibleChannels="7" guideMinutes="120" scrollMinutes="60" showNavigation="false" borderWidth="2" showStatusColor="false" showStatusIcon="true" brightenCurrentShowsPercent="16"/>

You can change the number of visible channels by changeing the value of "visibleChannels". You'll probably also want to change the size of the whole guide then, to make it look fine. This can be done by adjustinging the height of the element "size".

For example, a guide with five channels and a height of 40 pixels for each channel-row would be:

Code:

<SpecialElement name="Guide" loc="120,80" size="540,200" visibleChannels="5" guideMinutes="120" scrollMinutes="60" showNavigation="false" borderWidth="2" showStatusColor="false" showStatusIcon="true" brightenCurrentShowsPercent="16"/>

-alibert

[nbarsley]

Thanks a lot alibert! Your response was really clear and helpful.

[scim]

Thanks for having a go at making it work with the client, I wait with interest.
In the mean time I have spotted another issue, on many recordings that have been initiated from TV Listings they appear in the recordings list as manual recordings and dont have program details with them. It seems to happen if the record button on the remote is used rather than going into the record dialog. Any ideas?

[jeffd10]

So is there any program that will grab a usa tvguide.xml with the icon element?

[alibert]

Hi,

In the mean time I have spotted another issue, on many recordings that have been initiated from TV Listings they appear in the recordings list as manual recordings and dont have program details with them. It seems to happen if the record button on the remote is used rather than going into the record dialog. Any ideas?

I wasn't able to reproduce your problem here, sorry. I will add some more debug messages in the next release when scheduling a recording, hopefully I can see then in the logs what's going wrong.

-alibert

[alibert]

Hi,

So is there any program that will grab a usa tvguide.xml with the icon element?

I don't know, sorry. Maybe it's possible by using the "TVxb" grabber, and customize the ini-file to grab the url of images into the <icon> element of the output file. But this will also depend on the source website.

-alibert

[Jim_]

alibert, I missed your previous post asking about the @titlesubtitle element.
It's the same one that is used in the normal gbpvr recordings menu. It gives the title and subtitle on the same line so you don’t have to enter the program description menu to see what the episode is.

Here’s and example.

Mythbusters *: 68 – Firearms Folklore____________Ready
11/29/2006 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM__________________38 DSC

I'm not sure if gbpvr allows this skin element in the find-more screen or not but it is a nice feature in recordings, and it would be great to have in find-more if possible.
Thanks again for a great plugin!
Jim

[alibert]

Hi,

alibert, I missed your previous post asking about the @titlesubtitle element.
It's the same one that is used in the normal gbpvr recordings menu. It gives the title and subtitle on the same line so you don’t have to enter the program description menu to see what the episode is.

the "@titleSubtitle" parameter has it already made into the latest release. You can use it in the find more popup by modifying the "FindMorePopupNormalItem" and "FindMorePopupSelectedItem" composite images in the skin.xml file.

-alibert