nDroid v1.2.x (Beta) support thread

[bgowland]

Brian, good news, .11 fixes the slow load problem on startup and between channels

Good to hear, at least it's a step in the right direction.

but the initial load does take 3+ minutes with two Force Close/Wait dialogs.

I received your email and I'll look into this now. The initial load should be handled on a background thread so shouldn't cause those sort of dialog messages but I've a feeling I misplaced something along the way in a recent change.

[Nistrod]

Wishlist: Help ... About to get the version (maybe the service version too?)

[bgowland]

Wishlist: Help ... About to get the version (maybe the service version too?)

Done. Part of a 'status' / 'info' part that I've been planning. Pretty minimal at the moment though room for expansion.

[Nistrod]

OK, several problems:

1) nDroid didnt update its idea of "Today". I had to Force Stop it to get it to register that a day had passed and "Today" was now the next day. This was despite several Update Guides.

2) I have blank days at the end of the week. Clearly its not downloading the guide correctly or maybe at all. Yesterday, it was only missing one day, but its now two. There is no error given - it looks OK. How can I check if the guide downloaded correctly?

3) It failed set a recording of a show - just saying "Unable to set recording" (or some such) with no obvious reason. Nothing in the logs. Its not consistent - I can record shows this morning.

4) When I record a show, it does not go red until I change channels and change back. Similarly when I Cancel those shows.

[Nistrod]

2) was fixed by restarting the service.

4) Is also fixed if I scroll the show off the screen and back on.

[bgowland]

1) nDroid didnt update its idea of "Today". I had to Force Stop it to get it to register that a day had passed and "Today" was now the next day. This was despite several Update Guides.

Ironically I think the original v1.x version handled this better. Android apps are meant to 'remember' their last state in order to cope with things like incoming phone calls etc The original didn't remember very much so updated everything on every change - 'improvements' I've made to follow the model mean I think the current version is remembering too much and not updating as often as it should. I'll look at this ASAP.

2) I have blank days at the end of the week. Clearly its not downloading the guide correctly or maybe at all. Yesterday, it was only missing one day, but its now two. There is no error given - it looks OK. How can I check if the guide downloaded correctly?

Did you see the bit on the wiki page about setting PostUpdateEpg.bat to force the service to generate a new epg file when npvr does its daily update? I didn't document this properly early on so apologies for the confusion - it should fix the available EPG data.

3) It failed set a recording of a show - just saying "Unable to set recording" (or some such) with no obvious reason. Nothing in the logs. Its not consistent - I can record shows this morning.

There would have been something in the Android logcat but that's water under the bridge now. If there's nothing at all in the service logs then that suggests a connection wasn't established. Another thing on the ideal todo list is to have a background retry for recording requests (it's in the pipeline).

4) When I record a show, it does not go red until I change channels and change back. Similarly when I Cancel those shows.

Yes, I get varying results with this - normally I just touch/hold the screen and move up/down and it will appear after a few seconds. Something in the list update code I need to look at.

Thanks for the feedback. I've had a few things that have side-tracked me over the past few days but I've been working on some updates. Hopefully I'll have a new version soon.

[marcuswar]

GR8 to see that nDroid is now downloading channel icons includings gifs... but... its doesn't seem to change the icon when I choose a different channel, it always changes to the placeholder graphic. I have to come out of nDroid and then relaunch to get it to update the channel icon.

Marcus

[bgowland]

GR8 to see that nDroid is now downloading channel icons includings gifs... but... its doesn't seem to change the icon when I choose a different channel, it always changes to the placeholder graphic. I have to come out of nDroid and then relaunch to get it to update the channel icon.

OK, thanks - I think I've found what's going wrong. Will fix for the next release.

[GrundleJuice]

Necrobump - is this still supported on Windows 10?

[bgowland]

Necrobump - is this still supported on Windows 10?

In theory yes but in practice I don't know as I've never tried.

The nDroid project has been on ice for quite some time. I keep hoping to get back to it but spare time is short at the moment. There are so many new types of client which people seem to be using, I kind of lost momentum. One thing I do know (or I'm pretty sure of) is the latest version of NextPVR breaks nDroid possibly as a result of database changes - I don't know exactly as I didn't have time to debug when I tried it and it crashed when downloading the EPG data.

I will get a look at it soon at the very least to fix that problem as I still use it for remote browsing of EPG data and setting recordings when travelling the bus to or from work.

Cheers,
Brian