RSS feeds for recodings

[lstepnio]

I'm would like to kindly request a feature of RSS feeds for "Pending", "In Progress", "Available", "Failed", "Conflict" recordings. The link in the RSS feed would point towards the UNC path of the recording if applicable. Ideally, these feeds could be made available from the web server to it's easily accessible from other machine. I think something simple would work fine but ideally the RSS feeds could be customized using options in the request.

This would allow one to use desktop widgets on the recording server and/or client/remote systems. This would give the users a good view into GB-PVR at a glance from the desktop.

[David]

I will second this request, since I have requested it before. This needs to be directed to UJB for the EWA development. It would also be nice to get RSS feeds of all the episodes of a particular series.

The UPnP server that I use can read RSS feeds of media and make them available through my media player. This would provide much more information on a show than the current system of reading the files from the recordings folder.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Added to wiki wishlist......

[lstepnio]

That's awesome! Thanks, can't wait....

[UncleJohnsBand]

Attached is a beta.....

Unzip into your web\bin directory.

Config file has the settings:

You can specify to set the link to the posting to the local LAN file name or it defaults to the download process offered out of EWA.

You can choose to use your WAN IP (default) or set your own LAN IP or use a Machine name. This is the address to access your GBPVR Server. It is used in the links that are embedded in the content of the feed.

I will add the ability to set your EWA port and EWA Streamer port with the next update.

You can set where to store the RSS feed files....by default it places them in the gbpvr\web\public folder since this is an open folder that does not require login to access.

The genrss.exe file will create (if there is content to create) files for each type of recording.

Completed_Recordings.xml
Conflict_Recordings.xml
Failed_Recordings.xml
In-Progress_Recordings.xml
Pending_Recordings.xml
Season_Recordings.xml

Let me know if you have issues.

Post any issues over in the EWA RSS Thread.

[KingArgyle]

Why not just make a couple of simple ASPX files that send out the XML directly? This way, the streams are built real time instead of through a seperate Utility, and are called on an ad-hoc basis. Integrates it better as well instead of having a separate exe file that needs to be executed.

[David]

I think this will meet my needs, as I will just add the exe to my postprocessing.bat file. I'll give it a whirl and report back!

[David]

Well, I seem to be having some problems. I managed to configure it to provide my dyndns.org address for links. The WAN IP address didn't seem to want to work, though that may have been due to some other error.

My recording service is dying (and taking the web server with it). I suspect that it is dying when I click on the download link which generates an "application error" web page. The title for each item is "No Title Avaialble" (sic) and the items appear to be from oldest to newest.

Running the exe complains about the softwarerecorder.dll file in the plugin directory, but seems to generate the xml files anyway. I am not using the softwarerecorder plugin at this time, and could probably remove them.

Looking further, it seems that the "Season_Recordings.xml" has the most problems. The other two files (Pending_Recordings.xml, Completed_Recordings.xml) have titles, subtitles and working download link. The m3u link fails in WMP (file not found). I do not have VLC installed.

The links are embedded as html in the item description/summary. I really need the download link treated as an RSS 2.0 enclosure (using the download link).

I would also think the link of the item would point to the program information popup (Details.aspx) with associated ID.

On a side note, it seems that WMP doesn't like my DVR-MS files served through a .m3u file.

Thank you for the beta, and I look forward to your next release!

[UncleJohnsBand]

Why not just make a couple of simple ASPX files that send out the XML directly? This way, the streams are built real time instead of through a seperate Utility, and are called on an ad-hoc basis. Integrates it better as well instead of having a separate exe file that needs to be executed.

Took that approach but the readers appear to want a direct file....This provide a way to create the feeds from an aspx page on demand (which I did not post yet but have) as well as have your own batch process create them....either in postprocessing.bat or postepgupdate.bat.

I will try another method of direct xml via the aspx page once I get these few bugs worked out....it is always good to have several ways to get the same info so long as code isn't dupliated.... ;-)

[UncleJohnsBand]

Well, I seem to be having some problems. I managed to configure it to provide my dyndns.org address for links. The WAN IP address didn't seem to want to work, though that may have been due to some other error.

My recording service is dying (and taking the web server with it). I suspect that it is dying when I click on the download link which generates an "application error" web page. The title for each item is "No Title Avaialble" (sic) and the items appear to be from oldest to newest.

Running the exe complains about the softwarerecorder.dll file in the plugin directory, but seems to generate the xml files anyway. I am not using the softwarerecorder plugin at this time, and could probably remove them.

Looking further, it seems that the "Season_Recordings.xml" has the most problems. The other two files (Pending_Recordings.xml, Completed_Recordings.xml) have titles, subtitles and working download link. The m3u link fails in WMP (file not found). I do not have VLC installed.

The links are embedded as html in the item description/summary. I really need the download link treated as an RSS 2.0 enclosure (using the download link).

I would also think the link of the item would point to the program information popup (Details.aspx) with associated ID.

On a side note, it seems that WMP doesn't like my DVR-MS files served through a .m3u file.

Thank you for the beta, and I look forward to your next release!

If you see "Title not available" then there is nothing to download....I will be removing the links that are invalid.....if you focus on the completed feed your links should work.

I am assuming you have your port forwarding/firewall setup for accessing your system outside your network....correct?

Your RSS reader should be able to sort your feed into the order you want.

When you said WAN address did not work....did you just leave the config file setting for WAN to true or did you change it to false and add your dydns name?

I will try WMP.....don't use it as it will not stream a file that is not completely downloaded so that could be part of your problem....VLC will start playing a file even though it is not totally downloaded whereas VLC will play as it gets the data to play.

I will also remove the VLC link if you do not have it installed....that is why there is the comment about it being configed on the gbpvr server......