[MovieJunky]

Since I won't be posting here for a couple of days, just wanted to take the chance to wish everyone merry Christmas and nice holidays! Keep up the great work :-) See you in the new year.

[Lunatixz]

I'm happy to announce LiveTV Backend autotuning....

This should take a lot of the burden off the user when it comes to configuring settings2 for LiveTV.
As long as your XBMC PVR backend is setup properly and a XMLTV file is located; Bobs your uncle...

PVR Autotune works as follows:

PTVL will parse your pvr:// data for channel names, then search your xmltv file for those channel names and pair it with the xmltv id for that channel.
Once everything is found it will build a chtype '8' channel, if no matching xmltv info is found it will build a chytype '9' till you correct the mistake which can only be one of two things:

• Your backend name for that channel doesn't match the xmltv channel name
  No xmltv info was found for that channel
  

Git will be updated to v.0.2.3 which will include this feature....
Enjoy

[Lunatixz]

Since I won't be posting here for a couple of days, just wanted to take the chance to wish everyone merry Christmas and nice holidays! Keep up the great work :-) See you in the new year.

Same too you

[danz0l]

One feature i'd love to see is categories. If you want lots of channels and they have different type, i.e. Network, Movies, Documentaries, Streaming, LiveTV etc, i think being able to drill down to just a single category would be a great way of having hundreds of channels that are easily found. What do you think ? Done in the same way the current builds of LIVETV work on XBMC

BTW fantastic work. I love how you've progressed Jasons work and enhanced it so much its now a MUST rather than a DESIRE. The EPG colors for genres are fantastic as is the ability to parse live feeds. Your unifying it to one program suits all and i'm forever grateful. Well done.

Also one other feature i think would be cool would be when calling the EPG, instead of overlaying it on the currently playing channel, have that channel minimized into a preview box under the EPG guide. Makes selection easier.

[wrbranch83]

Having a slight issue with playing local media. In the original PseudoTV plugin, I used to be able to "Play Shows In Order" so that S01E01 would always be followed by S01E02 and so on. Now when I chose to have a channel play shows in order, that doesn't happen, instead I end up with say S01E01 followed by S01E05.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this the expected behavior?

I am experiencing the same behaviour. I have set a channel to play shows in order and play unwatched. However it seems to be just showing random episodes of which some I have seen

Luna is this a known bug? I'd be happy to donate a bit to get this prioritized if so.

Thanks for all the work!

[MovieJunky]

No offence wrbranch83, but paying money so a bug you are suffering from gets fixed faster doesn't seem right.
Donate money for the great work he has already done. Any amount will help him and you get access to the exclusive donor feature in PTV.

[Lunatixz]

Having a slight issue with playing local media. In the original PseudoTV plugin, I used to be able to "Play Shows In Order" so that S01E01 would always be followed by S01E02 and so on. Now when I chose to have a channel play shows in order, that doesn't happen, instead I end up with say S01E01 followed by S01E05.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this the expected behavior?

I am experiencing the same behaviour. I have set a channel to play shows in order and play unwatched. However it seems to be just showing random episodes of which some I have seen

Luna is this a known bug? I'd be happy to donate a bit to get this prioritized if so.

Thanks for all the work!

This was brought up a few posts ago... I checked into it and from what I can see there is no bug. The code appears fine, only possible problem is with user configurations. Make sure no limits are placed in custom smart playlist channels. If you're using Auto tuning set limit to unlimited. Remember to force reset channels to reflect your changes.

As for donation, while very appreciated I've made clear that it does not obligate me to provide special services...

[redhalo]

To those with issues with "Play Shows In Order": Is this channel a smart playlist? If so, is it's type "Episodes" and not "TV Shows"? I was having the same problem and this fixed it for me.

[Lunatixz]

Help Requested!!

There is an issue with my default skin, that for the life of me I cannot figure out...


The title text at the bottom is cut in half, I've checked for overlays, font types, sizing... Nothing helps, and if you change to a different xbmc skin problem disappears...
Anyone have an idea of what could be causing this?


Also hows the PVR auto tuning working out?? anyone using it?? please give me your feedback. I would like this feature to be as universal as possible.

[MovieJunky]

I couldn'T figure out how to use your PVR auto tune, maybe you can explain it a bit more so I can give it a go.
I need to set the XML for LiveTV to point to the directory containing my XML.

What else do I need to do?

[Lunatixz]

I couldn'T figure out how to use your PVR auto tune, maybe you can explain it a bit more so I can give it a go.
I need to set the XML for LiveTV to point to the directory containing my XML.

What else do I need to do?

You need to have a preexisting xbmc PVR backend setup....

[earlieb]

Luna,
looked at the cutting in half problem. Evidently, you have to have the height defined within the label of the grouplist. so if you add the <height>40</height> tags to each of the three labels. Don't know why Hope it helps.

[Lunatixz]

Luna,
looked at the cutting in half problem. Evidently, you have to have the height defined within the label of the grouplist. so if you add the <height>40</height> tags to each of the three labels. Don't know why Hope it helps.

Thanks... I'll give it a try

[ARYEZ]

Luna,
looked at the cutting in half problem. Evidently, you have to have the height defined within the label of the grouplist. so if you add the <height>40</height> tags to each of the three labels. Don't know why Hope it helps.

Wow of all the things I thought was causing it I never stopped to think about the most obvious issue--the height being set too short for the group list has to be doing it. Great catch earlieb!

Now if we can just figure out what is cutting of the last few letters in the third line for the description we'll be good to go.

[Lunatixz]

Luna,
looked at the cutting in half problem. Evidently, you have to have the height defined within the label of the grouplist. so if you add the <height>40</height> tags to each of the three labels. Don't know why Hope it helps.

Wow of all the things I thought was causing it I never stopped to think about the most obvious issue--the height being set too short for the group list has to be doing it. Great catch earlieb!

Now if we can just figure out what is cutting of the last few letters in the third line for the description we'll be good to go.

the "third line" is a truncation issue with my code, I have a character limit set in place. I need to write a "smart" truncation code to cut after the end of a sentience, rather then exactly at the limit.