NextPVR Web Client home screen problem

[nitram]

I am very pleased to find that X-NEWA gives me a very nice transition from my PCH to OpenELEC running on my NUC 2820FYKH, thanks for your efforts on this. It is so good that I would be happy if XBMC booted straight into X-NEWA's NextPVR Web Client.

NextPVR is version 3.1.1 with patches R1a
NEWA is version 2.10
XBMC is 13.0-Beta1 on both my NUC and my Windows PC (but I had the same problem when it was 12.3)
X-NEWA is version 2.1.5

I have a frequent problem with the NextPVR Web Client home screen (emulate.py), and these symptoms happen when running XBMC with X-NEWA on both my Windows 7 Pro machine and on my NUC running OpenELEC. The Windows 7 machine is also running the NextPVR service.

The first problem I notice after restarting everything is that sometimes, but not always, moving between the NextPVR Web Client home screen options with the arrow keys lags by one key press - i.e. the movement corresponds to one key press before the last. If I select an option like "TV Guide" there is absolutely no problem with arrow key navigation around the guide. But then on returning to the home screen the arrow keys often no longer update the screen and I am locked onto one option (which I can sometimes still access OK with the return key).

I took a look at emulate.py and tried a couple of experiments. When it is in this broken state the URL "http://172.21.0.107:8866/control?time=1394789173&key=39&client=XNEWA0x190e05e156L" sometimes still downloads a jpeg and sometimes not, but the simpler "http://172.21.0.107:8866/control?time=1394789173&key=39" always downloads a small sized jpeg corresponding to a right key press on the home screen.

I can let you have some logs if you need more info.

[mvallevand]

I am very pleased to find that X-NEWA gives me a very nice transition from my PCH to OpenELEC running on my NUC 2820FYKH, thanks for your efforts on this. It is so good that I would be happy if XBMC booted straight into X-NEWA's NextPVR Web Client.

Creating the following file called autoexec.py in the userdata folder does just that

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.RunScript(script.xbmc.x-newa)')

The first problem I notice after restarting everything is that sometimes, but not always, moving between the NextPVR Web Client home screen options with the arrow keys lags by one key press - i.e. the movement corresponds to one key press before the last. If I select an option like "TV Guide" there is absolutely no problem with arrow key navigation around the guide. But then on returning to the home screen the arrow keys often no longer update the screen and I am locked onto one option (which I can sometimes still access OK with the return key).

Sub has fixed this for the next version.

Martin

[nitram]

Creating the following file called autoexec.py in the userdata folder does just that

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.RunScript(script.xbmc.x-newa)')

Sub has fixed this for the next version.

Martin

Thanks Martin that works OK for autostarting X-NEWA, if anyone else tries it make sure you chmod+x the py file.
Can I also get X-NEWA to jump straight into the NextPVR Web Client?

Looking forward to next version.

[mvallevand]

In the new configuration setting screen there should be an Autostart Web Client radio button.

Martin

[nitram]

Creating the following file called autoexec.py in the userdata folder does just that

Code:

import xbmc
xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.RunScript(script.xbmc.x-newa)')

Sub has fixed this for the next version.

Martin

I can confirm that my problem of navigating with arrow keys in the NextPVR Web Client home screen has indeed been fixed by NextPVR Release 3.2.9.