Enhanced Web Admin

[SFX Group]

I set my icon size to 67x50 which still allows the icons to render readable and the column doesn't look huge.

I havnt played with icon size yet, this is 133x99 (or something) my one looks odd.

[wedgie]

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?

I get that error too.

[groover km]

See this thread for a fix....

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=13097

Incidentally, this is the thread from hell - 73 pages????

[UncleJohnsBand]

I havnt played with icon size yet, this is 133x99 (or something) my one looks odd.

There is a padding issue that will be fixed....currently there is padding surrounding the graphic that shouldn't be there. Normanr is working on updating the syles to allow a 0px padd for the graphics.

[UncleJohnsBand]

See this thread for a fix....

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=13097

Incidentally, this is the thread from hell - 73 pages????

This is the support thread for the EWA.....any issues are reported, tracked and addressed here. Having everything is one spot makes it easy to monitor rather than needing to watch all the various posts that come in all over the place on a daily basis.

We have started tracking change requests on the wiki. A change log has also been added to the EWA....go to the Statistics page to find the link....it will tell you all the changes in each release.

[groover km]

This is the support thread for the EWA.....any issues are reported, tracked and addressed here. Having everything is one spot makes it easy to monitor rather than needing to watch all the various posts that come in all over the place on a daily basis.

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound snippy; hope it didn't come across that way.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Sorry, I didn't mean to sound snippy; hope it didn't come across that way.

It didn't....this is a fairly common comment that we address from time to time...

[KingArgyle]

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

There are several differences, between the built in recording scheduler and the CDK Scheduler. I originally wrote CDK Scheduler, and JRock and Jorm added enhancements to it. CDK Scheduler uses a priority based recording scheduling system as opposed to a first in first out type scheduling system. By implementing priorities for recordings, when conflicts occur, the highest level priority recording is always given preference. This eliminates conflicts and you make sure your recording is always scheduled. This is of greatest benefit when you have a high number of recordings scheduled on a signle tuner. I typically have on average about 30 programs scheduled to record. Many of these can conflict, the priority recording eliminates the conflicts and I don't have to manually resolve them.

Also, CDK Scheduler can handle duplicates with either an XML TV source or a Zap2It source, it interfaces with RecTracker and the Watched database to check for duplicates. It offers a finer level of control over a particular recording, allowing you to narrow time ranage, date range, days of week, or any combination. You can also record shows based off of searches on Program Name, Title, and/or Description. You can mix and match any of these options.

It basically offers the more advanced features that you find in Sage TV, Myth TV, Tivo, and Beyond TV.

XRecord and XGuide have had support for CDK Scheduler for months, and I know there is a pretty decent installed base of users that use it. Personally, I don't use the GBPVR front end that much, but I do use the Web Admin, and my wife is not going to want to edit an XML file directly, so that is my main driving factor for adding a Web front end for managing and scheduling programs with CDK Scheduler.

As GBPVR doesn't give you an option to re-arrange the reoccuring recordings, there is no way to set priorities on a recording to give one preference over another. Plus the added control has been invaluable at fine tuning when recordings happen, and making sure that I don't run into times when the guide is being updated (ruined a couple of recordings while processing an XML TV guide a couple of times before fine tuning when the shows are recorded).

One other item you can do is also adjust the start time of a recording if there is a conflict. Say one show ends at 10:01pm, but another show you want to record starts at 10:00pm, you can adjust the start time of the second program so that it starts in a range from either 10:00 - 10:05 (or whatever number of minutes you want), so that that at 10:01, it will start recording the second show. The same can be done with with the end time as well.

With the added features it does add complexity, but gives the user far more control on how their system records the programs.

[KingArgyle]

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?

There are already a lot of features I don't use in the EWA like streaming video, and music. I just use it to search for episodes (the original enhancement I added to EWA), and manage/schedule recordings, so in some ways the added functionality that is already there is more complex than I need it, but others use it.

I still think a plugin type system would allow others to enhance the functionality with out over complicating the actual web admin itself. I have no problem with writing seperate pages for the features I want, but it would be nice to be able to turn off and on features from with in the configuration option so that you only get the subset of features you need. It would be nice to be able to easily add other features without making them have to be included with the base distribution.

[normanr]

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?t=13097

Incidentally, this is the thread from hell - 73 pages????

73 (now 74) is nothing - the WDM recorder thread is 83 pages atm.

These threads are by far the largest, because they're where the only other active development of GB-PVR is happening.