[liquidskin76]

Hi,

Has it been decided yet if skins will be accepted into the official frodo repo if they are not PVR ready? Also, how about missing or incomplete xml's?

Thanks

[`Black]

I think skin has to support pvr and obviously it shouldn't miss any default xml files.

[jmarshall]

We were going to make some <support> tags in the XML so you could have a skin without PVR. Also pop up an OK dialog if the skin was incomplete for a particular XML file.

I don't know whether our release manager will accept these changes at this point in the process - I'll ask.

[MassIV]

A good tutorial for getting the PVR demo running (exact alpha + demo version nr) + files needed ect, would be nice.
If i can't get the demo to run i can't skin it.

[ronie]

A good tutorial for getting the PVR demo running (exact alpha + demo version nr) + files needed ect, would be nice.
If i can't get the demo to run i can't skin it.

you can get the demo addon (windows/linux) that matches your xbmc build here:
http://www.dotnetdevelopers.net/XBMC/xbmcpvr.html

once installed, open up the PVRDemoAddonSettings.xml file and add some stream url's
so the demo addon will actually play someting.

[Jezz_X]

And I also made this a while ago to help a little more http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=142639

[liquidskin76]

A good tutorial for getting the PVR demo running (exact alpha + demo version nr) + files needed ect, would be nice.
If i can't get the demo to run i can't skin it.

you can get the demo addon (windows/linux) that matches your xbmc build here:
http://www.dotnetdevelopers.net/XBMC/xbmcpvr.html

once installed, open up the PVRDemoAddonSettings.xml file and add some stream url's
so the demo addon will actually play someting.

And I also made this a while ago to help a little more http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=142639

Cheers guys. These will be a massive help.

[liquidskin76]

We were going to make some <support> tags in the XML so you could have a skin without PVR. Also pop up an OK dialog if the skin was incomplete for a particular XML file.

I don't know whether our release manager will accept these changes at this point in the process - I'll ask.

Thanks jmarshall. For the missing xml's, i was thinking DialogPeripheralManager and DialogPeripheralSettings. Can't test as have no hardware that uses this.

I'm thinking of sorting PVR support sooner now i have those links from ronie and Jezz, so not a problem for me if i can't get Welo in until PVR is sorted.

Cheers

[Hitcher]

How to test peripheral setting

[liquidskin76]

How to test peripheral setting

Cool. Cheers Hitcher.

That's me sorted then... no excuses now for missing xml's and no PVR support.

[MassIV]

Yeah i had tried all that before guys.
But i tried installing the demo again today and it worked! Just like that, easy as it should be
3 Nov + 3 Nov btw.

But no ideas on why it failed before.

[MassIV]

A small how to (will update).
Adding PVR as new feature to a skin:

Install pvr demo:
http://www.dotnetdevelopers.net/XBMC/xbmcpvr.html
Test pvr demo in Confluence.
Add Jezz_x's extras:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=142639
Test extras in Confluence.

1) Go to confluence xml files. Grab the following files and copy them in your skin.
MyPVR.xml
Viewtype_TVList.xml
ViewsLiveTV.xml
ViewsPVR.xml

2) Include the includes

Code:

<include file="Viewtype_TVList.xml" />
<include file="ViewsLiveTV.xml" />
<include file="ViewsPVR.xml" />

3) Also grab the following dialogs:
DialogPVRChannelManager.xml
DialogPVRChannelsOSD.xml
DialogPVRGroupManager.xml
DialogPVRGuideInfo.xml
DialogPVRGuideOSD.xml
DialogPVRGuideSearch.xml
DialogPVRRecordingInfo.xml
DialogPVRTimerSettings.xml

4) Add a main menu entry.

Code:

<item id="41">
  <label>LIVE TV</label>
  <onclick>ActivateWindow(PVR)</onclick>
  <icon>-</icon>
  <thumb>-</thumb>
  <visible>System.GetBool(pvrmanager.enabled)</visible>
</item>

4) Add settings entry:

Code:

<item id="12">
     <description>Live TV settings</description>
    <label>[LOWERCASE]live tv[/LOWERCASE]</label>
    <icon>settings/LiveTV.png</icon>
    <onclick>ActivateWindow(PVRSettings)</onclick>
</item>

5) To make the side blade show up you need an include from Includes.xml (mainly slide animation).
<include name="SideBladeLeft">

6) Make sure your debugging aid is up to date with PVR added:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=129094

7) Have fun

-edit- added sideblade

[nessus]

Thanks Massiv.
This the first "How To" that i've seen for PVR integration. It really helps.

Cheers
Nessus