Windows Desktop/Sidebar Gadget with Recording Schedule

[UncleJohnsBand]

that's something I noticed too, why should one need to enter user/password when you are on the same network segment?

That's only part of it, user id and passwords are easy to use in API, NEWA web services use a much more sophisticated approach that is great when you are on the web, but not worth my time implementing in python.

Martin

Yep since the web services allow full control of your npvr stuff you want strong security. I know it is a pain but I think it is necessary. I will look at a possible way to not need security if in-network but no guarantees since security is built into the whole web services infrastructure. Adding this public method for the gadget info which is non-modifiable info was easy. It still gives me the willies since anyone that finds your external url can access the link and could issue a denial of service attack against the npvr web server.

[UncleJohnsBand]

If you were able to embed the channel name and number into the webServiceEPGEventObject that would be easier for me but a separate call/doc would be fine.

I'll see what I can do....if I add it to the epgeventobject it will require anyone using the web services interface where this object is returned would need to update their application.

[UncleJohnsBand]

I'll see what I can do....if I add it to the epgeventobject it will require anyone using the web services interface where this object is returned would need to update their application.

Ok...give the attached a try. I was able to add the name and the number as attributes on the channelOID node of the EPGEventObject without changing the base web service....I simply took the doc that is returned from the service and spun through all the channeloid nodes with epgevent segments and using the oid value I used the Channel class of NPVR to add the attributes to the node.

<ChannelOid channelName="74.1629-WLYDT" channelNumber="515">7169</ChannelOid>

Let me know if this works for you.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Another question: Is there a way to get the channel logos with the background transparency intact? If I use the URL that the NEWA pages seem to use ('public/download.ashx/-5,1?ChannelID') I get an image with a solid black background.

I'll have to look into why that may be occuring....basically what is happening at the url is that the image is being streamed to the browser.....so you would want to use that url in your display and when the browser goes to render it the channel icon should render.

Are you appending your host URI in front of that url.... i.e.

Code:

http:///your-target-newa:your-port/public/download.ashx/-5,1?ChannelID

[cncb]

Let me know if this works for you.

Works great. Thanks.

[cncb]

Are you appending your host URI in front of that url

Yes. The logo is displaying appropriately other than the black background behind the logo which would ideally be transparent as illustrated below:

[UncleJohnsBand]

Yes. The logo is displaying appropriately other than the black background behind the logo which would ideally be transparent as illustrated below:

How does it render within NEWA?

[mvallevand]

The download.ashx.cs for the InternalFiles.ChannelIcon doesn't set the background of the Bitmap white so it will have a black background, setting it white works

Code:

Image img = new Bitmap(channel.Icon.Width,channel.Icon.Height);
                        Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(img);
                        g.Clear(Color.White);
                        g.DrawImageUnscaled(channel.Icon, 0, 0);

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

The download.ashx.cs for the InternalFiles.ChannelIcon doesn't set the background of the Bitmap white so it will have a black background, setting it white works

Code:

Image img = new Bitmap(channel.Icon.Width,channel.Icon.Height);
                        Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(img);
                        g.Clear(Color.White);
                        g.DrawImageUnscaled(channel.Icon, 0, 0);

Martin

Not using that logic.....the -5 indicates channel icon and the below code is executed. It may be that I am streaming it back as a .jpg........I am wondering if the channel icon was in jpg format with the transparent background if it would render correctly.

Code:

                case (int)InternalFiles.ChannelIcon:
                    Channel channel = Channel.LoadByOID(Convert.ToInt32(path));
                    if (channel.Icon != null)
                    {
                        Image img = new Bitmap((channel.Icon));
                        Response.ContentType = "image/png";
                        img.Save(Response.OutputStream, ImageFormat.Jpeg);
                        Response.End();
                        img.Dispose();
                    }

[mvallevand]

UJB, that is the code I modified (before Response.ContentType...) I tried .Png first but that gave a GDI+ error. Returning the byte[] for channel.Icon works too

ImageConverter converter = new ImageConverter();
Response.BinaryWrite((byte[])converter.ConvertTo(img, typeof(byte[])));

Martin