[Lunatixz]

There seems to be a bug in the channel editor with channel names. Whenever I set the channel name in the editor it adds a leading space and truncates the last few charactors. The truncation seems somewhat random as I've seen it between 1 and 3 charactors.

Also I had a few channels based on a TV show where I didn't specify a custom name and my logo matched the TV show name exactly, but the logo won't show.

Can you give me a repeatable steps, So I can check it out?

[Lunatixz]

Is this how I'm supposed to do it? It's not working.

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_type" value="8" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rulecount" value="1" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_opt_1" value="Plutotv  Music" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_1" value="Top 40" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_2" value="plugin://plugin.video.plutotv/?url=51c75f7bb6f26ba1cd000017&mode=2&name=101%3A+Top+40&iconimage=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fpluto.tv%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fchannels%2Fd95a9706-1fe0-5dfc-895f-8033dea0de5e-top40squareS.jpg&showname=Today%27s+hottest+tracks+from+the+Top+40+charts.+Non-stop+hits+served+hot+and+fresh+every+day." />

    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_4" value="" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_changed" value="True" />

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />
    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

Where is this coming from? Where did you get the value "1" and what is "guide"?

[RockDawg]

There seems to be a bug in the channel editor with channel names. Whenever I set the channel name in the editor it adds a leading space and truncates the last few charactors. The truncation seems somewhat random as I've seen it between 1 and 3 charactors.

Also I had a few channels based on a TV show where I didn't specify a custom name and my logo matched the TV show name exactly, but the logo won't show.

Can you give me a repeatable steps, So I can check it out?

Go into the channel configuration and select a channel. Go to Advanced Channel Rules and add a new rule for Set Channel Name. Navigate to New Channel Name box and hit enter. Type in new channel name and select Done on the keyboard. Hit backspace to go back the Channel Rules and you will see the name is now truncated. Hit escape and save changes and it will show up in settings2.xml the same way. It appears to only affect channel names with spaces in them.

As for the channels with missing logos... obviously nothing to reproduce there. I've just double and tripled checked that the logo was named exactly the same as the TV show name (including case) and they still don't show.

[RockDawg]

I am still having major problems and 0.5.9 has not resolved them. As I've mentioned before, I am having a really slow EPG. When I hit the select button on my remote, PTVL brings up the blank EPG background and it takes 10-15 seconds to populate the programs and logos. Navigating through the channels is slow. Moving between the 6 channels showing on the guide aren't too bad but there is about .5 second lag. Trying to navigate to a channel off screen is worse and the lag can vary between 2-5 seconds usually. If I make the mistake of trying to navigate to my music videos channel (folder based), forget it. We're talking minutes. Sometimes up to 10 or so. Even exiting is problematic as it sits on removing file locks for at least 30 seconds or more. All my channels are based on local network content. No internet streaming.

Here is my log: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=65...file%2clog

I do see a bunch of "ERROR: XFILE::CFile::Rename - Error renaming file smb://WOPR/xbmc_stuff/PTV Live Shared Channels/cache/FileLock.dat" messages. Are they my problem? Would really love to get this sorted out and get back my reliable PTVL.

Send me your settings2.xml

Here is my settings2.xml:

http://xbmclogs.com/p6oqh05mx

I have no idea what was wrong with my settings2.xml but I deleted it and reconfigured all my channels and all seems fine now. The strange part is that I saved a copy about a year ago that worked just fine then and I eve tried using it and PTVL was still all screwed up. Makes me wonder if something changed in PTVL over time that caused it to stop liking my settings2.xml. I hope I don't have to do that again as it took hours.

[Lunatixz]

There seems to be a bug in the channel editor with channel names. Whenever I set the channel name in the editor it adds a leading space and truncates the last few charactors. The truncation seems somewhat random as I've seen it between 1 and 3 charactors.

Also I had a few channels based on a TV show where I didn't specify a custom name and my logo matched the TV show name exactly, but the logo won't show.

Can you give me a repeatable steps, So I can check it out?

Go into the channel configuration and select a channel. Go to Advanced Channel Rules and add a new rule for Set Channel Name. Navigate to New Channel Name box and hit enter. Type in new channel name and select Done on the keyboard. Hit backspace to go back the Channel Rules and you will see the name is now truncated. Hit escape and save changes and it will show up in settings2.xml the same way. It appears to only affect channel names with spaces in them.

As for the channels with missing logos... obviously nothing to reproduce there. I've just double and tripled checked that the logo was named exactly the same as the TV show name (including case) and they still don't show.

You are hitting backspace while the "Channel name box" is highlighted?

Channel name = "Test" now hit backspace "Tes" this is the normal function for backspace... try not having the box highlighted, then hit backspace...

[Lunatixz]

Send me your settings2.xml

Here is my settings2.xml:

http://xbmclogs.com/p6oqh05mx

I have no idea what was wrong with my settings2.xml but I deleted it and reconfigured all my channels and all seems fine now. The strange part is that I saved a copy about a year ago that worked just fine then and I eve tried using it and PTVL was still all screwed up. Makes me wonder if something changed in PTVL over time that caused it to stop liking my settings2.xml. I hope I don't have to do that again as it took hours.

This project is always being updated, You have to pay attention to the changelogs to learn when chtype configurations change... I've never change anything without properly documenting it first.

[RockDawg]

Can you give me a repeatable steps, So I can check it out?

Go into the channel configuration and select a channel. Go to Advanced Channel Rules and add a new rule for Set Channel Name. Navigate to New Channel Name box and hit enter. Type in new channel name and select Done on the keyboard. Hit backspace to go back the Channel Rules and you will see the name is now truncated. Hit escape and save changes and it will show up in settings2.xml the same way. It appears to only affect channel names with spaces in them.

As for the channels with missing logos... obviously nothing to reproduce there. I've just double and tripled checked that the logo was named exactly the same as the TV show name (including case) and they still don't show.

You are hitting backspace while the "Channel name box" is highlighted?

Channel name = "Test" now hit backspace "Tes" this is the normal function for backspace... try not having the box highlighted, then hit backspace...

I get what you're saying although I would have thought that once I clicked Done on the keyboard that editing the name was completed. Either way here is another one. I am doing the exact same steps but trying to name the channel Little House on the Prairie. I type the full name and click on Done and the name is truncated to "Little House on th" on the Set Channel Name screen. That's before I ever hit backspace or anything. Immediately after I click done on the keyboard.

[Lunatixz]

Go into the channel configuration and select a channel. Go to Advanced Channel Rules and add a new rule for Set Channel Name. Navigate to New Channel Name box and hit enter. Type in new channel name and select Done on the keyboard. Hit backspace to go back the Channel Rules and you will see the name is now truncated. Hit escape and save changes and it will show up in settings2.xml the same way. It appears to only affect channel names with spaces in them.

As for the channels with missing logos... obviously nothing to reproduce there. I've just double and tripled checked that the logo was named exactly the same as the TV show name (including case) and they still don't show.

You are hitting backspace while the "Channel name box" is highlighted?

Channel name = "Test" now hit backspace "Tes" this is the normal function for backspace... try not having the box highlighted, then hit backspace...

I get what you're saying although I would have thought that once I clicked Done on the keyboard that editing the name was completed. Either way here is another one. I am doing the exact same steps but trying to name the channel Little House on the Prairie. I type the full name and click on Done and the name is truncated to "Little House on th" on the Set Channel Name screen. That's before I ever hit backspace or anything. Immediately after I click done on the keyboard.

I have no control of the textbox... BTW, It doesn't need to be opened to enter text, it's active the second its highlighted...

As for "Little House on th" again... I know you are a long time PTV user... but you may need to brush up on some stuff, It's well documented here that the Channel Name limit is 18 characters.

[carlog]

Is this how I'm supposed to do it? It's not working.

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_type" value="8" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rulecount" value="1" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_opt_1" value="Plutotv  Music" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_1" value="Top 40" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_2" value="plugin://plugin.video.plutotv/?url=51c75f7bb6f26ba1cd000017&mode=2&name=101%3A+Top+40&iconimage=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fpluto.tv%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fchannels%2Fd95a9706-1fe0-5dfc-895f-8033dea0de5e-top40squareS.jpg&showname=Today%27s+hottest+tracks+from+the+Top+40+charts.+Non-stop+hits+served+hot+and+fresh+every+day." />

    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_4" value="" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_changed" value="True" />

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />
    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

Where is this coming from? Where did you get the value "1" and what is "guide"?

I tried setting up a Pluto.tv channel through the configurator and it didn't work so I posted ch6 info from my settings2.xml. I'm not sure where guide or the other xmltv options are coming from. It may have come from my attempt to use webgrab+. All of my attempts have failed miserably so could you please tell me what I should do to get a pluto.tv channel?

[Lunatixz]

Is this how I'm supposed to do it? It's not working.

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_type" value="8" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rulecount" value="1" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_opt_1" value="Plutotv  Music" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_1" value="Top 40" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_2" value="plugin://plugin.video.plutotv/?url=51c75f7bb6f26ba1cd000017&mode=2&name=101%3A+Top+40&iconimage=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fpluto.tv%2Fassets%2Fimages%2Fchannels%2Fd95a9706-1fe0-5dfc-895f-8033dea0de5e-top40squareS.jpg&showname=Today%27s+hottest+tracks+from+the+Top+40+charts.+Non-stop+hits+served+hot+and+fresh+every+day." />

    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_4" value="" />

    <setting id="Channel_6_changed" value="True" />

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />
    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

Where is this coming from? Where did you get the value "1" and what is "guide"?

I tried setting up a Pluto.tv channel through the configurator and it didn't work so I posted ch6 info from my settings2.xml. I'm not sure where guide or the other xmltv options are coming from. It may have come from my attempt to use webgrab+. All of my attempts have failed miserably so could you please tell me what I should do to get a pluto.tv channel?

After tonights update v.0.6.0, use in-app channel config, xmltv name should be "ptvlguide" which is the new universal xmltv file for PTVL... and hit enter for channel id, then pick best match.

[carlog]

Code:

<setting id="Channel_6_rule_1_id" value="1" />
    <setting id="Channel_6_3" value="guide" />

Where is this coming from? Where did you get the value "1" and what is "guide"?

I tried setting up a Pluto.tv channel through the configurator and it didn't work so I posted ch6 info from my settings2.xml. I'm not sure where guide or the other xmltv options are coming from. It may have come from my attempt to use webgrab+. All of my attempts have failed miserably so could you please tell me what I should do to get a pluto.tv channel?

After tonights update v.0.6.0, use in-app channel config, xmltv name should be "ptvlguide" which is the new universal xmltv file for PTVL... and hit enter for channel id, then pick best match.

What is the channel type supposed to be? Live TV? Is the source type supposed to be plugin? If so do I use the base plugin or do I have to drill down to the channel there?

[Damstas]

Cannot add USTVnow channels because of this https://flic.kr/p/rBnZMx (I have the USTVnow installed from the Lunatixz repo) Pseudo TV Live won't even find my FTV addon..

[jaochoo]

Im having the following ISSUES:

ISSUES:
1) My live TV channels doesn't work. I've setup two channels for testing, but when I run PTVL it will ask to auto tune and otherwise complain that no channels exist. But there are in fact two channels in my list.
2) PTVL will then take me back to the configuration window but it's not possible to open the channel manager. PTVL will complain that the operation cannot be performed while it's running. So it seems there's still an instance running in the background.
3) When adding a Live TV channel it won't pull the channel name from the PVR backend. PTVL will either leave it blank if no live tv channels were setup before or take the name of the last live TV channel setup before.

LOG: http://xbmclogs.com/pfcjevwru

Can someone help me with getting my PVR channels working? Live TV works pretty fine in Kodi (DVBViewer addon) but they just don't work in PTVL. I setup pvr:// as a video source and I can see all my channels in the channel manager but when starting PTVL they don't work.

Is there anything more I can do than posting a log here? There are no error messages or similar. The channels just don't work (ie. they don't show up at all on PTVL/guide).

[Reb313]

Could someone who's not on Luna's ignore list pass this on to him please.
The Skin TitanMediaBrowser won't work with PTVL. It brings up the play controls, so you can bring up the guide, or change channels.
I told author about the change he needed to add to fix it, and he added it, but still it won't work.

Thanks!

[RockDawg]

You are hitting backspace while the "Channel name box" is highlighted?

Channel name = "Test" now hit backspace "Tes" this is the normal function for backspace... try not having the box highlighted, then hit backspace...

I get what you're saying although I would have thought that once I clicked Done on the keyboard that editing the name was completed. Either way here is another one. I am doing the exact same steps but trying to name the channel Little House on the Prairie. I type the full name and click on Done and the name is truncated to "Little House on th" on the Set Channel Name screen. That's before I ever hit backspace or anything. Immediately after I click done on the keyboard.

I have no control of the textbox... BTW, It doesn't need to be opened to enter text, it's active the second its highlighted...

I didn't realize that it didn;t need to be opened. Noted.

As for "Little House on th" again... I know you are a long time PTV user... but you may need to brush up on some stuff, It's well documented here that the Channel Name limit is 18 characters.

My apologies. I guess I do need to brush up on PTVL rules. That also explains the couple stations whose logos weren't appearing as the shows had long names. What makes this hard to realize is that PTVL will show the full naae in the EPG even if it's over 18 characters. It is only in the custom name editor where you see it get truncated. If you never try to give it a custom name and don;t know about the 18 character limit, then a user will never understand why their channel logo isn't showing.

But there is still truly a bug. When you set a custom channel name, PTVL always includes a leading space that you can't see but is present in the settings2.xml.