Enhanced Web Admin

[superdad]

NormanR:

I deleted native utilities and now the can't find nativeutilities message has gone away (go figure). Thanks for that!

When I tried to login I got a message saying that the web app did not have access to the config.xml

I created an account on the pvr machine and the webserver (gave the account access to the gbpvr folder) synched the passwords and then added this line to my web.config file

<identity impersonate="true" userName="userNameOnBothMachines" password="superSecretPassword" />

I edited the config.xml line for the database from .\gbpvr.mdb to:

Code:

<DatabaseConnectionString>Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source="\\pvrmachine\gbpvr\gbpvr.mdb";User Id=admin;Password=</DatabaseConnectionString>

Restarted apache, logged in and everything is working perfectly!

Thanks very much for your help NormanR!

[normanr]

woot, nice to hear it all works. I still wonder why NativeUtilities doesn't load. I'm guessing it's a native (and not .net) dependancy, i.e. it's a missing msvcrt.dll or something like that.

[j3flight]

Wow, awesome work going on in this thread...

One suggestion, you need to get the word out better or have the web admin stuff bundled each time sub does a release...

I've been waiting and waiting for sub to fix some of the web "season recording" bugs and I get bummed out each time it's not fixed. I come by this thread, download, drop in, whammo, problem solved!!! Whoohooo!

If only I had known weeks ago!!!

Thanks though.... I appreicate all the work this takes.

Jason

[normanr]

I'll ask sub to package build 10.

FYI: I've been playing with numatrix's 'direct download link' idea, and it works nicely with VLC, not so much with the WiMP. So build 11 is pretty much guaranteed to have this

[j3flight]

Thanks, the web admin is one of the best features for GB-PVR for me. I like being able to remotely schedule a recording anywhere I have web access.

I second the motion to have some sort of cleaner separation in the Manage Recordings section. Maybe some kind of color coding would be enough and probably very simple to add. You have wording in the "status" column to indicate what's going on with that row (Pending, Available, etc), but it's easy to confuse with a longer list.

The interface is really great so I won't give any more implementation suggestions! I appreciate the work,

Jason

[normanr]

Hi Jason,

Well I will be looking at what KingArgyle sent me. It seperates Scheduled/Pending from Recorded. I'll see if after this additional color/image coding is required/can be done.

Hey it's everybodies positive feedback that lets me know that it's appreciated, so I appreciate the thanks

Norman

[normanr]

build 11 is out:

New in 0.11 - April 2nd, 2005
- New play / watch / download link to access recorded programs across http. (open the url with VLC, don't let you browser download the mpeg file).
- New filter for manage recordings lets you filter on recording status.
- New search by channel option.
- Some fixes to make the guide more viewable on a low res screen.

[KingArgyle]

I downloaded and installed this, and the new Guide, is showing Gaps and missing information. The old guide in v10 worked fine.

On a bright, note, love the new manage recordings options. Much easier to see what is going to be recorded soon.

[jsteele]

The new web admin is very nice. The button to Play Program is especially nice.

But (there is always a but :-) when you click the button it wants to download the file. I'd guess that more poeple are going to use this over a LAN to another PC. So I'd suggest that it would be ideal if clicking it in the web browser simply started Media Player and streamed the file. Opening Windows Explorer from a client PC and clicking on the file will do this, it would be good it worked this way from the web browser also.

And frankly I think the rendering and controls in Media Player are marginally better than VLC, but that's just me.

[normanr]

KingArgyle: I have not (functionally) changed the guide since v10, the only changes made were to allow the front-end to squash up more by making some of the padding images narrower. (You can verify this by comparing the code yourself). Perhaps sub has changed the sql logic (it was broken), and now the workaround I was using is breaking the correct logic.

jsteele: Media Player does a particularly bad job of playing the file. It doesn't allow seeking if that part of the file has not been downloaded. So WiMP tries to download the complete mpeg! (as fast as it can!).

VLC is intelligent and does a partial HTTP request and doesn't let the web server stream out the entire file as quick as it can. So you can seek anywhere, anytime, and it doesn't use up all your bandwidth and server resources while viewing the file.

I would like to find a way to launch the url directly with VLC by just clicking the link. I agree that having to copy & paste the url is a hassle.