Update notification.

[Fatman_do]

It would be slick if there were a plugin or something that can check the wiki page of a skin or plugin for updates. I know McBainUK has a method for some of his plugins, but it would be great if this was user configurable for those that don't have this feature. Lets say I want to be notified if Sassari is updated, Weather Plugin, or GB-PVR itself.

[KingArgyle]

You may want to check out this old thread:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...gin+update

It provided an XML format that plugins could use and host on the Wiki, and then it would require a plugin to be able to poll the wiki to check for updates.

It can also be found on the Wiki at:

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Devel...AutoUpdate


It would be a basis to start from. Hey maybe a good Google Summer of Code project? sub any thoughts of GBPVR participating in that??

[Jeff]

Neat idea. I've added this to the next video archive version and will build it into the weather plug-in as well.

Jeff

[Jeff]

My mechanism, by the way, was pretty simple. I have just added a text file to my plug-in's wiki page that has the version number of the plug-in assembly. The plug-in downloads this file once a day and compares it to its own assembly version number to see if a new version is available.

Code:

private void CheckForUpdate()
        {
            // Only show the notice once
            if (updateNoticeShown)
                return;

            try
            {
                System.Net.WebRequest objRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create("http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/uploads/Plugin/VAVersion.txt");

                //The WebResponse object gets the Request's response (the HTML)
                System.Net.WebResponse objResponse = objRequest.GetResponse();

                //Now dump the contents of our HTML in the Response object to a
                //Stream reader
                StreamReader oSR = new StreamReader(objResponse.GetResponseStream());

                //And dump the StreamReader into a string...
                string webStr = oSR.ReadToEnd();
                string[] webVersion = webStr.Split('.');

                Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
                string myStr = asm.GetName().Version.ToString();
                string[] myVersion = myStr.Split('.');

                // See if the web version is newer than my version
                bool updateAvailable = false;
                for (int i=0; i<myVersion.Length && i<webVersion.Length && !updateAvailable; i++)
                {
                    int webLevel = Convert.ToInt32(webVersion[i]);
                    int myLevel = Convert.ToInt32(myVersion[i]);

                    updateAvailable = (myLevel < webLevel);
                }

                if (updateAvailable)
                {
                    errorDialog.SetParams("Update Available", "A new version of the Video Archive plug-in is available on the wiki site.  You are running version "+myStr+".  The wiki site has version "+webStr+".");
                    flagShowError = true;
                    updateNoticeShown = true;
                }
            }
            catch
            {
            }
        }

Jeff