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SVN HEAD now has json support by default. I just tested on my pi, and once a listing has been cached (the bbc end is slow), it took about 5 seconds for bbc_one listing. you can all stop complaining now ;-)
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Thanks. Still needs some work, but I'll try and push out an update soon.
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2014-11-22, 11:42
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-22, 11:44 by exobuzz.)
the rss cache is not saved to disk - it's just used to stop reparsing data multiple times if a feed is accessed twice in the same session - but the web response is cached to disk.
the main problem currently is this ion api is useless. It times out, and is horribly slow. Right now some of the API calls are not even returning data correctly (atoz only returns data for B it seems).
I have some alternative json data for tv data, but nothing yet to replace the functionality we have for the radio. Of course I have signed up for the nitro api, but will have to wait to see if/when they authenticate it (when it goes public I guess).
I think once the json stuff is working fully I will wait a bit, as I don't really want to spent days pulling in data from different sources for them to get closed off and have to start all over again. People wanting full radio 4 listing will have to be patient or nag them to fix the ion api (or provide an alternative). I may split up the channels into A-Z to work around the slow api, but even that isn't possible currently due to the buggy api.
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On Android...Not 100% sure I'm on the test version. XBMC said it was enabled but the version number was the same. Live and catchup streams and search all perfect so far.
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I have 2 xbmc machines in the house one is running 12.2 the other 10.1 (may 2011)
Ive just updated iplayer on both of them to version 2.66
Version 12.2 runs fine all but live radio. but the 10.1 just displays a script error.
Is there a problem with iplayer 2.66 running on xbmc 10.1 or do I need to look else where.
not really sure why it won run.
Any help advice would be appreciated,
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2014-11-24, 19:29
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-24, 19:30 by exobuzz.)
you are still running xbmc 10 !?! that is ancient and unsupported. sorry. (I dropped support for python 2.4).
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I cannot load over-arching categories like if I go to categories - Factual I get no programmes available within seconds. If I go to a sub category like Factual - Consumer I get programmes. Before when this happened I extended the socket timeout to 60 seconds and Factual would be slow to load, over half a minute, but it would load. Now nothing within a few seconds but the socket and stream timeouts are still at 60 seconds.
Any help please?
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you are just going to have to put up with it i'm afraid. the api doesn't return programmes for all top level categories, such as factual.