Enhanced Web Admin

[jsteele]

normanr
1. But the reality of it is that the VAST majority of people don't use Firefox. Bad as it is I use IE because my company develops business Intranets and thats what our business customers use -- if for no other reason than it comes in the Microsoft box.
2. With 135 channels (cable and satellite) the bottom of the screen is a long way down :-)
3. Of course :-) Actually I think a "Delete" button with a single JavaScript "Yes/No" is sufficient. We write a lot of Intranet software for major business applications and we don't find business users who say that more confirmation is necessary. You can obviously get carried away with confirmations, but realistically these are TV shows we're talking about, not your life savings :-)
4. I think it would be nice to have web access to essentially anything on the GBPVR that can be viewed or listened to. Now that I have had a chance to really play with the interface you developed and playing over the WLAN with VLC I think this is one of the more interesting features of GB. In addition to the GB machine we have 7 PCs in my house for 4 people --- everyone has a notebook as a result of either work or school --- plus a few desktops/servers. In our environment who needs MVPs :-)

[rocketsmart]

I've got a web page I've built to manage my premium movie channels and I'd like to be able to add a button to my movie details screen that will perform a search on my GBPVR. I realize it will bounce through the logon screen and that's fine, although I'd just as soon have my site log me in as well.

PVRs in general are great at helping to find and watch every episode of a series or something like that, but with movies the trick is first just finding out what's on versus what I don't care about. That's why I built my site and I'm hoping I can tie it into my GBPVR.
Thanks,
Scott

[normanr]

rocketsmart: yea, you should be able to figure out which query string params to use for SearchResults.aspx. Basically you pass textKeyWord, and then either set matchTitle for exact match or checkTitle for partial match.

[j3flight]

normanr:

If you are open to a few suggestions fro additional capabilities ---
1. Use HTML frames in the schedule display so that the Date/Time and Forward/Back buttons are always visible regardless of how many channels there are. For example I have about 135 channels defined and it would be nice to be able to see the neaders and the forward/Back buttons when scrolled down to the bottom.
2. A button to force the display back to the current time
3. In Manage Recording provide a button to delete the recording
4. New display similar to the Manage Recordings screen but giving push-button access to all the programs on file including converted DVDs, etc, not just TV recordings.

Just some thoughts to keep you out of the pubs at night :-)

An improvement on #1...
Instead of frames (which would take a lot of work initially) why not just print the header every so many channels. Like say, every 10 or 20. TitanTV does this and as you scroll down, it's very easy to see what time your show is on because the header is ALWAYS within the window. No frames necessary and it probably wouldn't take very long to make the changes....

The header is already a very different color style than the menu so it shouldn't get confusing. I think it would look great.

Just an alternative,

Jason

[sleptoor]

I love your plugin and use its "play recording" functionality in my internal network and also for scheduling over the web. But I noticed a minor security issue. I can access all the video files from any computer on the internet simply by changing the M3U rid numbers. I know its not a likely exploit but is there a way to block access to all the files except to those computers with an active "session" - I imagine you could do this via IP by giving an IP access for maybe the length of the video - then have that IP go stale until the user logs in again. Or maybe just have an option to block external (non 192.168.xxx.xxx IPs) access of the download directory? I program in PHP, not aspx, but I'd imagine something like those solutions wouldn't be too hard...(I shouldn't say that - knock on wood)



my m3u - I was thinking of giving you all my IP so you could watch what I've recorded but decided against it.....
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http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080/gbpvr/public...292&mode=1
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[normanr]

Yea. I had thought of this bypass, and i have a working solution for it in another program. I just need to code it up and release it.

[w_ellis]

I'd like to second the requests for repeated display or frameset for seeing the date/time dropdown and navigation buttons. It's one of the few outstanding features I'd like to see on this. I think http://www.radiotimes.com has a fairly reasonable compromise layout-wise (and I quite like their details tooltips).

There's a very minor issue I spotted when moving between Search and TV Guide tabs, whereby the current time is lost and the TV Guide displays shows from the beginning of the stored data.

Otherwise I'm a very happy user!

Thanks,
Will

[normanr]

mmm, might be able to do the repeating times every 10 or 20 channels as jcromes and w_ellis have suggested. I'll have a look to see if i can move the back and forward buttons into the header slot too.

If you re-select the Tv Guide, it should always load at the current time. So if you've navigated of elsewhere, you can back 'home' by just clicking the tab again. Or do you mean that if you have data from yesterday in the guide it shows that by default?

[j3flight]

I'll have a look to see if i can move the back and forward buttons into the header slot too.

I was going to suggest that too, but I didn't want to push my luck. =)
Thanks!

[w_ellis]

Example scenario (now):
- Log in
- TV Guide displayed with time set to 15 April 2005 5:00 PM
- Click Search
- Click TV Guide
- TV Guide displayed with time set to 14 April 2005 12:00 AM

This doesn't happen when navigating to Manage Recordings and back.

Thanks,
Will

P.S. I should really test this on the latest version too, as mine's the one from the 0.91.8 build I think.