[tromy]

Lunatixz,
Is it possible to increase the numbers of entries for live channels because with 12 entries have to update twice a day in order to sync with epg?

Thanks.

[Lunatixz]

Lunatixz,
Is it possible to increase the numbers of entries for live channels because with 12 entries have to update twice a day in order to sync with epg?

Thanks.

It already has... Next update has 48
Also, Livetv channel building is faster now...

Lighting fast if you disable find missing data.

Enabled its still faster, just not as fast...

[tromy]

Lunatixz,
Is it possible to increase the numbers of entries for live channels because with 12 entries have to update twice a day in order to sync with epg?

Thanks.

It already has... Next update has 48
Also, Livetv channel building is faster now...

Lighting fast if you disable find missing data.

Enabled its still faster, just not as fast...

Thanks again

[peglegtv]

Luna i like your idea for swapping the playlist out,
but for the movies i don't want them in the library all year round, i feel it clutters things up when i know we wont watch them through out the year, but i like the simplicity of swapping the playlist for Christmas Episodes ill have to figure out what channel I'm Willing to swap and then ill also want to swap out my logos for that channel but that i can do with .bat so we're golden there,

I add a custom genre for my seasonal movies and then have my main movie smart playlist filter out the kids movies and all the seasonal stuff so it doesn't show up in the regular list. I then make smart playlist for Christmas, Halloween and other seasonal stuff.

You can then copy these smart playlist and rename them to the season.xps and swap them in your channel. Your .bat file could copy in your logo and the season list all in one go and you should be set.

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know i can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

[xavier.ba]

Please remove mute for next update!! Its annoying

[Lunatixz]

Luna i like your idea for swapping the playlist out,
but for the movies i don't want them in the library all year round, i feel it clutters things up when i know we wont watch them through out the year, but i like the simplicity of swapping the playlist for Christmas Episodes ill have to figure out what channel I'm Willing to swap and then ill also want to swap out my logos for that channel but that i can do with .bat so we're golden there,

I add a custom genre for my seasonal movies and then have my main movie smart playlist filter out the kids movies and all the seasonal stuff so it doesn't show up in the regular list. I then make smart playlist for Christmas, Halloween and other seasonal stuff.

You can then copy these smart playlist and rename them to the season.xps and swap them in your channel. Your .bat file could copy in your logo and the season list all in one go and you should be set.

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know i can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

not true... u are looking for instant results! so yes then you need to force reset!! but if you trust time and ptvl to do there thing...it would update or set a advanced rule to update the channel daily weekly..

I rarely waste my time replying with false info

[Chadman]

I'm gonna try some advanced channel settings.

[peglegtv]

I add a custom genre for my seasonal movies and then have my main movie smart playlist filter out the kids movies and all the seasonal stuff so it doesn't show up in the regular list. I then make smart playlist for Christmas, Halloween and other seasonal stuff.

You can then copy these smart playlist and rename them to the season.xps and swap them in your channel. Your .bat file could copy in your logo and the season list all in one go and you should be set.

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know i can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

not true... u are looking for instant results! so yes then you need to force reset!! but if you trust time and ptvl to do there thing...it would update or set a advanced rule to update the channel daily weekly..

I rarely waste my time replying with false info

I wasn't trying to to imply that you where wrong, it was my fault when i moved the playlist and tried it and had to do a force channel reset to see the results right away, i just assumed that since i had to do a manual force channel reset that when you swapped your playlist that you where also having to do the force channel reset.

so if i don't do the force channel reset about how long would it take PTVL to do a reset if i leave it set to automatically?
roughly of course, would i be looking at hours, days or weeks b4 it would do it it's self

thanks

[peppy6582]

Luna i like your idea for swapping the playlist out,
but for the movies i don't want them in the library all year round, i feel it clutters things up when i know we wont watch them through out the year, but i like the simplicity of swapping the playlist for Christmas Episodes ill have to figure out what channel I'm Willing to swap and then ill also want to swap out my logos for that channel but that i can do with .bat so we're golden there,

I add a custom genre for my seasonal movies and then have my main movie smart playlist filter out the kids movies and all the seasonal stuff so it doesn't show up in the regular list. I then make smart playlist for Christmas, Halloween and other seasonal stuff.

You can then copy these smart playlist and rename them to the season.xps and swap them in your channel. Your .bat file could copy in your logo and the season list all in one go and you should be set.

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know i can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

Try this:

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings2.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

[Lunatixz]

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know i can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

not true... u are looking for instant results! so yes then you need to force reset!! but if you trust time and ptvl to do there thing...it would update or set a advanced rule to update the channel daily weekly..

I rarely waste my time replying with false info

I wasn't trying to to imply that you where wrong, it was my fault when i moved the playlist and tried it and had to do a force channel reset to see the results right away, i just assumed that since i had to do a manual force channel reset that when you swapped your playlist that you where also having to do the force channel reset.

so if i don't do the force channel reset about how long would it take PTVL to do a reset if i leave it set to automatically?
roughly of course, would i be looking at hours, days or weeks b4 it would do it it's self

thanks

I know... Just letting u know... I wouldn't steer u wrong

[peglegtv]

I add a custom genre for my seasonal movies and then have my main movie smart playlist filter out the kids movies and all the seasonal stuff so it doesn't show up in the regular list. I then make smart playlist for Christmas, Halloween and other seasonal stuff.

You can then copy these smart playlist and rename them to the season.xps and swap them in your channel. Your .bat file could copy in your logo and the season list all in one go and you should be set.

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know I can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

Try this:

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings2.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

worked great, noticed it was set to settings2.xml had to change that to settings.xml (I just figured it out with autohotkey as well but i'll stick with batch file) heres the fixed version in case someone else wants to use it

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

Thanks for the help

[peppy6582]

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know I can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

Try this:

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings2.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

worked great, noticed it was set to settings2.xml had to change that to settings.xml (I just figured it out with autohotkey as well but i'll stick with batch file) heres the fixed version in case someone else wants to use it

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

Thanks for the help

Yeah, I am a goober, and didn't realize that is in settings.xml so I just added it to settings2.xml and played until I got it right. My bad!

[Lunatixz]

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know I can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

Try this:

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings2.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

worked great, noticed it was set to settings2.xml had to change that to settings.xml (I just figured it out with autohotkey as well but i'll stick with batch file) heres the fixed version in case someone else wants to use it

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

Thanks for the help

Not sure this is a good move. U r forcing a rebuild of all channels just to update one? Use the advanced rule to reset the single channel.

::Edit:: Below only serves as a warning for editing settings2.xml through non official means... not settings.xml (a little quick reading misunderstanding )

Right off the bat, hah no pun intended! I don't' support any custom programs that write to the settings2.xml!! this is one of the two most important files to PseudoTV Live... It resides in memory when PTVL is running and is extremely sensitive to unplanned change... so unless you enjoy crashes or missing channels... possibly even damaging all channels...I would absolutely not do this!

I cant' stress enough how much your not even suppose to be touching settings2.xml in the first place... but my additions are currently too complex to add through the in app manager. Which is why a windows manager is being released...

[peglegtv]

Try this:

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings2.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

worked great, noticed it was set to settings2.xml had to change that to settings.xml (I just figured it out with autohotkey as well but i'll stick with batch file) heres the fixed version in case someone else wants to use it

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

Thanks for the help

Not sure this is a good move. U r forcing a rebuild of all channels just to update one? Use the advanced rule to reset the single channel.

wow! i cant believe i didn't see that "reset every x days" before, I didn't think to look at the advanced rules for the individual channels for a reset

i like the idea of just resetting the one individual channel,

if i set the "Reset every x Days" to 365 would that channel still get reset when all the other channels get reset or would that stop the channel from being reset with all the other channels when doing a force channel reset?

the further into this i get the more ideas i get like a now playing widget (showing random Episodes or Movies) then you could click the movie or episode in the widget and it would launch PTVL to the channel that that movie or episode would play on (it's definitely beyond me but thought it would be a cool idea)

sorry for blowing up the forum for the same idea but i see now that i can fully automate this. i just need to know more about the way it works to decide which way to go

Thanks

::::EDIT::::
thanks for the warning: i understand if i edit the settings2.xml i carry the risk of breaking my setup, if i do go that route then ill make sure that i create a personal backup or create a daily/weekly/monthly mirror backup of the file to make sure i can undo any damage i may cause

thanks

[Lunatixz]

sorry for blowing up the forum for the same idea but i see now that i can fully automate this. i just need to know more about the way it works to decide which way to go

No... I enjoy this kinda stuff... when I first got my hands on EG years ago... I ran a muck writing custom automated code... EG is the only reason my HTPC is windows based...