Enhanced Web Admin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Loaded and seems to be working.

I notice you can alter the size of the channel icons (thats handy) also is there a way of making that first column smaller in width? Its really wide..

One last thing is the "Time Slice" issue resolved?

sure....new release and already you want something else....

Now that this release is out we can look at the timeslice issue.

I'll look into the column size and see what can be done. The standard icon size appears to be 133x99 (for the most part). High-Def images can be twice that size. I set my icon size to 67x50 which still allows the icons to render readable and the column doesn't look huge.

[groover km]

UncleJohnsBand, everything is working fine here. Thanks!

Can I ask, where did you get those channel icons from? They're purrrdy. Mine suck, and look as if they were drawn with a crayola.


Edit: Ignore me. Found them here -

http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/tvcountry/us-nc.html

[UncleJohnsBand]

UncleJohnsBand, everything is working fine here. Thanks!

Can I ask, where did you get those channel icons from? They're purrrdy. Mine suck, and look as if they were drawn with a crayola.


Edit: Ignore me. Found them here -

http://www.lyngsat-logo.com/tvcountry/us-nc.html

I used the 4 downloads located in the first post on this sage-tv post...they are high-res 264x198. I used gimpshop to resize them down to the 133x99 standard.

You can also get a nice selection from the wiki in the megapack that tipstir put together.

[KingArgyle]

I'm thinking of adding support to the web admin for managing the CDK Scheduler XML file. We use the web admin about 95% of the time to setup and manage our recordings, and CDK Scheduler is used solely to manage the Season/Recurring recordings. I have a couple of questions before I proceed as I want to make this configurable as much as possible.

1. I thinking of adding a radio button to the Config screen so that the scheduler default can be set (i.e. use CDK Scheduler or GBPVR built in scheduler). From here other pages typically used to schedule season recordings would add their season recordings to the appropriate scheduler based on the radio button value. Manul and One time recordings would always be handled by GBPVR.

2. Either the Manage Recordings or the Config screen is going to need a seperate web page for moving the priority recordings around (i.e. reprioritizing them). Wasn't sure where the best place to put this screen was.

3. When is the global.aspx.cs file read? Is it read one time at startup or whenever a page is accessed?

Any tips or pointers that you guys can give would be appreciated. CDK Scheduler has a complete api that can be used to read and write the appropriate file, as well as retrieve and manage the recordings, so it really is only going to be a matter of setting up defaults and maybe addinging some advanced configuration options.

Ideally I'd like to see this as a plugin to the web admin, but not sure exactly how to go about doing that. If it is a plugin then the additional CDK Scheduler features don't need to be distrubuted with the standard code, but can be downloaded and installed seperately.

[j3flight]

Feature request:

Could someone add a warning or notification of somekind when a recording FAILS to be correctly scheduled?

I was trying to setup a recording the other day of a single episide... I would select the episode in the guide, click "record this episode", the page would refresh, but my show wasn't marked red. It took me a while to figure this out but the conflict was really far down in the channels list and my new episode was overlapping.

Could you present a pop-up window or just some bold text at the top of the page after scheduling when this occurs? It's very easy to miss the fact that it failed unless you go specifically look for the red box. Hopefully, the internal scheudling API returns some sort of status so this is possible...

Thanks!

[groover km]

Really like the new update! Just a suggestion -

On the episode search, could a 'date' field be added? That way we could search for movies that are on tonight, this weekend, etc...

[normanr]

3. When is the global.aspx.cs file read? Is it read one time at startup or whenever a page is accessed?

Technically only at compile time, but what you meant to ask is when are the functions in global executed:
Well there are many to choose from: Application_Start - runs when the first page is loaded after reboot, Session_Start - runs when a new browser instance loads a gb-pvr page for the first time, Application_BeginRequest/Application_AuthenticateRequest - runs each and every page hit.

[UncleJohnsBand]

I'm thinking of adding support to the web admin for managing the CDK Scheduler XML file. We use the web admin about 95% of the time to setup and manage our recordings, and CDK Scheduler is used solely to manage the Season/Recurring recordings. I have a couple of questions before I proceed as I want to make this configurable as much as possible.

1. I thinking of adding a radio button to the Config screen so that the scheduler default can be set (i.e. use CDK Scheduler or GBPVR built in scheduler). From here other pages typically used to schedule season recordings would add their season recordings to the appropriate scheduler based on the radio button value. Manul and One time recordings would always be handled by GBPVR.

I have confirmed with sub that the next release of GBPVR contains the API for the season recordings so the native Web Admin will be updated to handle season recordings just like the native GBPVR. Not sure if that impacts the need to integrate another plugin on top of the EWA.

Will "attaching" the web admin into another plugin make the EWA overly complex....meaning will the EWA need to change anytime CDK does and that anytime you add recording functianlity to EWA you will need to also add coding or not mess up coding that deals with CDK?

Why do you use CDK rather than native GBPVR scheduler? Does it offer something more?

2. Either the Manage Recordings or the Config screen is going to need a seperate web page for moving the priority recordings around (i.e. reprioritizing them). Wasn't sure where the best place to put this screen was.

Ideally I'd like to see this as a plugin to the web admin, but not sure exactly how to go about doing that. If it is a plugin then the additional CDK Scheduler features don't need to be distrubuted with the standard code, but can be downloaded and installed seperately.

I belive that if CDK access is integrated it should get its own page and code behinds that are only visible/used if the user has chosen to use CDK. This approach would make maintenance easier by not interlacing standard GBPVR Web access with a seperate plugins requirements. This would alsing with your EWA Plugin Approach rather than expanding the core EWA to engulf a sepearte plugin nativly.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Really like the new update! Just a suggestion -

On the episode search, could a 'date' field be added? That way we could search for movies that are on tonight, this weekend, etc...

I believe this one is already on the wiki as an item on the wish list.

[dneprrider]

Hi there,
I have been trying to get build 31 to work the past 2 day. I've installed twice and after each install I get the following error message (attached .jpg) when trying to login.

Any ideas?