TV Listings 2 - Support Thread

[dshoup]

Hi,


I already thought about a custom recordings screen that uses the same popups as in the tv listings plugin - but because of the badly designed code in the plugin this will have to wait until I'll do some refactoring... but it's definitely on my list.

-alibert

Good news! And don't sweat it, we all understand you have a life (or at least deserve one even if you don't currently have it :eek and are appreciative for the work you have already contributed!

[gEd]

Hi alibert

I seem to have experiencing some "odd" behaviour in tv listings. When I schedule some shows, the don;t appear as recording in progress or pending. This is true whether I schedule them in TV gudie or TV listings.

I can;t seem to spot a specific pattern atm but will keep trying.

here are a couple of screenshots that demonstrate the problem.

I also tried default blue skin rather than CS3 but that didn;t help.

I can PM you the database if that would help?

cheers

[alibert]

Hi,

Hi alibert

I seem to have experiencing some "odd" behaviour in tv listings. When I schedule some shows, the don;t appear as recording in progress or pending. This is true whether I schedule them in TV gudie or TV listings.

I can;t seem to spot a specific pattern atm but will keep trying.

here are a couple of screenshots that demonstrate the problem.

I also tried default blue skin rather than CS3 but that didn;t help.

I can PM you the database if that would help?

cheers

It's hard to say what's going if there is no way to reproduce the behaviour. First off, are you using the sqlite database (gbpvr.db3) in gbpvr or still the old access database (gbpvr.mdb)?

-alibert

[gEd]

I am using sqlite.

I can probably reproduce the behaviour, it seems to have happened several times in the last few days.

[gEd]

I am using sqlite.

I can probably reproduce the behaviour, it seems to have happened several times in the last few days.

[alibert]

Hi,

I am using sqlite.

I can probably reproduce the behaviour, it seems to have happened several times in the last few days.

Is there anything suspicious in the logfiles?
If you leave the tv listings plugin and then re-enter it, are the shows listed as 'pending' then, or are there still shown as normal programmes?

I'll send you a private message with my e-mail address that you can use to send me your gbpvr.db3 file, maybe I can reproduce it here, too.

-alibert

[JP23]

Hi, I have two problems:

TV Listings displays logos for my channels, but for some channels I don't have a logo, and for those nothing is displayed and the guide therefore does not indicate what channel it is at all. Is there a way that I can have the channel name displayed when there is no logo available, or, have the channel name displayed for all channels, instead of the channel number?

Also, is it possible to change the colours in the guide, particularly the colour of selected programs? I'm using the latest version of community skin.

Thanks,

Jon

[gEd]

Hi,


Is there anything suspicious in the logfiles?
If you leave the tv listings plugin and then re-enter it, are the shows listed as 'pending' then, or are there still shown as normal programmes?

I'll send you a private message with my e-mail address that you can use to send me your gbpvr.db3 file, maybe I can reproduce it here, too.

-alibert

I just PM'd you my db (I got your message before I read this post)

logs..
well I did see an error that said something like "Unable to locate capture device" in one of the logs but I couldn;t be sure that it was for the time I scheduled gardeners world and now the logs have wrapped around.

However all the other scheduled recordings appear ok in the logs.

so I appear to have 2 problems.

1. occasionally a recordings will have the wrong programme_oid (see PM)
2. None of my recordings for today show their status although match of the day cup final for tomorrow appears as pending.

exiting tv listings and/or restarting pvrx2 doesn;t make any difference.

cheers

[alibert]

Hi,

Hi, I have two problems:

TV Listings displays logos for my channels, but for some channels I don't have a logo, and for those nothing is displayed and the guide therefore does not indicate what channel it is at all. Is there a way that I can have the channel name displayed when there is no logo available, or, have the channel name displayed for all channels, instead of the channel number?

in your skin.xml file, have a look for at the "ChannelHeader" composite image:

Code:

<CompositeImage name="ChannelHeader" size="9,9">
  <!-- supported parameters are @icon, @name, @number -->
  <!-- visible="@noIcon" will only be drawn if there is no icon for the channel available -->
  <DrawRect loc="2,2" size="95,95" fillColor="Black"/>
  <DrawImage filename="@icon" loc="5,5" size="90,90" fixedAspectRatio="true"/>
  <DrawText text="@name" visible="@noIcon" loc="5,5" size="90,90" textStyle="ListingStyle" align="Left" valign="center"/>
</CompositeImage>

The "DrawText" element with the parameter "visible="@noIcon"" will display the channel's name when there is no logo available. Actually, you can display any combination of channel-name, -number and -logo by adjusting the channel header element.

Also, is it possible to change the colours in the guide, particularly the colour of selected programs? I'm using the latest version of community skin.

Thanks,

Jon

to change the colour of the selected programme, you'd have to change the colour in the following element:

Code:

<NamedColor name="GuideSelection" color="GeneralSelection"/>

I just PM'd you my db (I got your message before I read this post)

okay, I'll have a look at it over the weekend.

-alibert

[alibert]

gEd,

I saw that there are some shows in your database that are scheduled more than once, which makes a thread of the plugin dying that is updating the status of scheduled programmes in the background. After that, the recording status of all other scheduled recordings can't be recognized anymore.

I built in an additional check to avoid the crash now, which will be available in the next release (but it'll still take some time until then, sorry).

For the moment, you can do the following to fix it:
Open the default tv guide, navigate to 2008-05-24 on "ITV1 London", and cancel "F1: Monaco Grand Prix Qualifying" once. Quit PVRX2 and open it again - now tv listings should display all scheduled shows correctly.

-alibert