Channel Editing Inconvenience

[mjccox]

Just 2 small inconveniences with the "Channels" setting page and the channel editor (the place you go to manually map to alternate epg source) on the web app.

1. On the channel setting page when making custom groups. You can make your group called whatever you want for example "All Sports". Then go to the search/filter bar and type in "Sports" and only channels with the word sports in the name will show up. There is a check box there to select all. When clicked, it looks like it works. There are now checks next to all sports channels. But then as soon as you click any where or delete the text the changes revert and have not been saved. Meaning you actually have to individually click each checkbox.

2. On the channel editor (after clicking on the little wrench). I have a schedules direct line-up added. I select it from the "source" dropdown list. Then click on the "mapping" drop down list.  It gives me a very short period of time to look for the proper channel before something happens and the list changes to whatever the source was before. 

I have reproduced this issue on both Firefox and Chrome. Not complaining. Just some small things I thought you might like to be aware of to get the kinks out. Or if anyone has ran into these issues before could give me a workaround.

Cheers

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2. On the channel editor (after clicking on the little wrench). I have a schedules direct line-up added. I select it from the "source" dropdown list. Then click on the "mapping" drop down list.  It gives me a very short period of time to look for the proper channel before something happens and the list changes to whatever the source was before. 

I just took a look, and couldn't see the behaviour your were describing here. After selecting the lineup, it updated the mapping to contain that list of channels, and it didn't seem to change.

Does it make any difference if it's the first channel you view, or subsequent channels? (first time might be a little slower to load, since it has to download the list...second and subsequent times it comes from the cache)

What was it going from -> to? If you were going from IPTV XMLTV, these can be a little slow to load (large lists often from slow web sites), and maybe the 'from' fully loaded before you tried changing the source, which completed relatively quickly, and then soon after that original 'from' list completed loading, and showed it's options?

[sub]

1. On the channel setting page when making custom groups. You can make your group called whatever you want for example "All Sports". Then go to the search/filter bar and type in "Sports" and only channels with the word sports in the name will show up. There is a check box there to select all. When clicked, it looks like it works. There are now checks next to all sports channels. But then as soon as you click any where or delete the text the changes revert and have not been saved. Meaning you actually have to individually click each checkbox.

I've just taken a look, and yeah it was behaving a bit strangely. I've made some changes and it's much improved for the next build.

[mjccox]

2. On the channel editor (after clicking on the little wrench). I have a schedules direct line-up added. I select it from the "source" dropdown list. Then click on the "mapping" drop down list.  It gives me a very short period of time to look for the proper channel before something happens and the list changes to whatever the source was before. 

I just took a look, and couldn't see the behaviour your were describing here. After selecting the lineup, it updated the mapping to contain that list of channels, and it didn't seem to change.

Does it make any difference if it's the first channel you view, or subsequent channels? (first time might be a little slower to load, since it has to download the list...second and subsequent times it comes from the cache)

What was it going from -> to? If you were going from IPTV XMLTV, these can be a little slow to load (large lists often from slow web sites), and maybe the 'from' fully loaded before you tried changing the source, which completed relatively quickly, and then soon after that original 'from' list completed loading, and showed it's options?

I was going from xmltv to schedules direct.

[mjccox]

1. On the channel setting page when making custom groups. You can make your group called whatever you want for example "All Sports". Then go to the search/filter bar and type in "Sports" and only channels with the word sports in the name will show up. There is a check box there to select all. When clicked, it looks like it works. There are now checks next to all sports channels. But then as soon as you click any where or delete the text the changes revert and have not been saved. Meaning you actually have to individually click each checkbox.

I've just taken a look, and yeah it was behaving a bit strangely. I've made some changes and it's much improved for the next build.

Sounds good!

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2. On the channel editor (after clicking on the little wrench). I have a schedules direct line-up added. I select it from the "source" dropdown list. Then click on the "mapping" drop down list.  It gives me a very short period of time to look for the proper channel before something happens and the list changes to whatever the source was before. 

I just took a look, and couldn't see the behaviour your were describing here. After selecting the lineup, it updated the mapping to contain that list of channels, and it didn't seem to change.

Does it make any difference if it's the first channel you view, or subsequent channels? (first time might be a little slower to load, since it has to download the list...second and subsequent times it comes from the cache)

What was it going from -> to? If you were going from IPTV XMLTV, these can be a little slow to load (large lists often from slow web sites), and maybe the 'from' fully loaded before you tried changing the source, which completed relatively quickly, and then soon after that original 'from' list completed loading, and showed it's options?

I was going from xmltv to schedules direct.

Was that a local xmltv file, or from a remote server somewhere?

Can you test my theory above, by clicking the little wrench, then go away and do something for a couple of minutes, to make sure it's definitely had time to download the channel list, before trying to change the source - then see if it behaves more like you expect?

[mjccox]

2. On the channel editor (after clicking on the little wrench). I have a schedules direct line-up added. I select it from the "source" dropdown list. Then click on the "mapping" drop down list.  It gives me a very short period of time to look for the proper channel before something happens and the list changes to whatever the source was before. 

I just took a look, and couldn't see the behaviour your were describing here. After selecting the lineup, it updated the mapping to contain that list of channels, and it didn't seem to change.

Does it make any difference if it's the first channel you view, or subsequent channels? (first time might be a little slower to load, since it has to download the list...second and subsequent times it comes from the cache)

What was it going from -> to? If you were going from IPTV XMLTV, these can be a little slow to load (large lists often from slow web sites), and maybe the 'from' fully loaded before you tried changing the source, which completed relatively quickly, and then soon after that original 'from' list completed loading, and showed it's options?

I was going from xmltv to schedules direct.

Was that a local xmltv file, or from a remote server somewhere?

Can you test my theory above, by clicking the little wrench, then go away and do something for a couple of minutes, to make sure it's definitely had time to download the channel list, before trying to change the source - then see if it behaves more like you expect?

It's a remote iptv xmltv file.

I think you're right. It's "...loading..." the channels list from the source that I don't need. Even when I'm looking at a different source channel list (that downloaded faster). I think when it is finished loading it jumps back to the forefront for some reason.  That's how it appears to be happening.

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Yeah, basically when view the channel details, it has to try to load the channel list from that source, but it just happens that you're using a source that is very slow to load the channel list from. When the channel list is eventually successfully downloaded, it repopulates the dropdown with those channel options (and ignores the fact that you've since changed the source, and got the new channel list from elsewhere).

Does the second channel behave better? ie, the channel list should have been cached by then, and be quicker to retrieve.

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It's "...loading..." the channels list from the source that I don't need.

To be clear though - the application has no way to know that you don't need the channel loaded. It's very common for a user to want to change the epg mapping to another channel on the same source, so it has to load that channel list.

[mjccox]

Yeah, basically when view the channel details, it has to try to load the channel list from that source, but it just happens that you're using a source that is very slow to load the channel list from. When the channel list is eventually successfully downloaded, it repopulates the dropdown with those channel options (and ignores the fact that you've since changed the source, and got the new channel list from elsewhere).

Does the second channel behave better? ie, the channel list should have been cached by then, and be quicker to retrieve.

The subsequent channels don't behave better. Actually, if I click on a different source then back to the slow-to-download source without making any changes, it loads ("...loading...") again.