2015-11-30, 18:58
Yeah, appreciate it's been some time... My work commitments are kind of ruling my life at the moment and I have limited time to complete this.... Hopefully in the next week or so I will be in a position to share, i can’t promise anything, although I can promise that eventually I will release something!
This is where i am:
* The add-on is actioned when the user clicks on "remind me" from the context menu (a programme in the future must be highlighted in the EPG.)
* A cron job is activated and checks to makes sure every minute whether there’s a reminder to show.
* The addon validates to make sure the Programme is not in the past.
* I’ve added some settings so users can configure the advancement of a reminder e.g. remind me 5 minutes before the programme starts, configurable 0 - 60 minutes.
* The addon reads the EPG info e.g. time, programme names and stores that in an XML file – will need to look into another way of storing this data, possibly a SQL lite DB.
* Once the reminded programme start time - Advancement time = NOW a Kodi dialogue is fired with a simple "A programme you asked to be reminded, is about to start" message
* Multiple reminders can be set, however, only the last reminder that was set is saved to XML - at the moment I’m keeping this as simple as possible.
* If Kodi shuts down, only the last set reminder is stored, any previous reminders will be forgotten. If the system it continually on then all set reminders will still work.
* Reminders can only be set for "today" anything after midnight is seen as in the past e.g. 00:01 is seen as this morning and not tomorrow morning. This is because i haven’t added any date functionality yet - again trying to keep it as simple as possible, dealing with different formats of dates feels like its going to be problematic!
I’ve tested this for a week or so and noticed some minor bugs, which I think I fixed last night, once I’m happy it’s stable I will release it for testing.
I will then continue to develop and expand more features, just bare with me!
This is where i am:
* The add-on is actioned when the user clicks on "remind me" from the context menu (a programme in the future must be highlighted in the EPG.)
* A cron job is activated and checks to makes sure every minute whether there’s a reminder to show.
* The addon validates to make sure the Programme is not in the past.
* I’ve added some settings so users can configure the advancement of a reminder e.g. remind me 5 minutes before the programme starts, configurable 0 - 60 minutes.
* The addon reads the EPG info e.g. time, programme names and stores that in an XML file – will need to look into another way of storing this data, possibly a SQL lite DB.
* Once the reminded programme start time - Advancement time = NOW a Kodi dialogue is fired with a simple "A programme you asked to be reminded, is about to start" message
* Multiple reminders can be set, however, only the last reminder that was set is saved to XML - at the moment I’m keeping this as simple as possible.
* If Kodi shuts down, only the last set reminder is stored, any previous reminders will be forgotten. If the system it continually on then all set reminders will still work.
* Reminders can only be set for "today" anything after midnight is seen as in the past e.g. 00:01 is seen as this morning and not tomorrow morning. This is because i haven’t added any date functionality yet - again trying to keep it as simple as possible, dealing with different formats of dates feels like its going to be problematic!
I’ve tested this for a week or so and noticed some minor bugs, which I think I fixed last night, once I’m happy it’s stable I will release it for testing.
I will then continue to develop and expand more features, just bare with me!
