2013-12-14, 00:09
(2013-12-13, 23:19)Lunatixz Wrote: We all want this as wife friendly as possible!! I appreciate the requests, some of which may not be possible because of XBMC limitations...
1. This may be possible without a full rewrite... but no promises.
This would be great, this was they only request I thought you would really be able to add with minimal complexity, but again, I don't understand the code so it may be a bigger deal then it sounds. Your work is inspiring me to learn Python.
(2013-12-13, 23:19)Lunatixz Wrote: 2. Error handling is always a concern. The code I've implemented is doing an okay job, till I find a better method. If you find a lot of your channels going offline try increasing the channel reset for that channel. Set that specific channel to reset daily. This will trigger a stream check. BTW The setting you are looking for is in setting.xml called "currentchannel".
Force a Channel Reset Code:
Code:<setting id="Channel_###_rulecount" value="?" />
<setting id="Channel_###_rule_$_id" value="13" />
<setting id="Channel_###_rule_$_opt_1" value="%" />
### = Channel Number
? = amount of rules you have, if you only had the rename rule then you have "2"
$ = rule number, if this is the second rule you have, then it's "2"
& = how many days till a force reset, "1" is good for stream offline checks.
Great explanation, I can definatly implent this. Does every channel need a custom rule or can I use the same rule for multiple channels? Also does this work with strm files? I found strm to be the most reliable so all my rtmp I use are in strm files and I use channel type 7 to call the strm file. The reason I ask is even if I do a force channel reset through the settings, the strm files seemed to still be added to the EPG and I only find out they don't work when I try and watch it and the link doesn't work. Would this also work with the plugin:// in strm files as I'm moving as much as I can to use the native pluggins instead of the raw rtmp stream which tends to be a bit more dynamic then I expected.
(2013-12-13, 23:19)Lunatixz Wrote: 3. Currently isn't possible. Once you select something to play PTVL isn't in control anymore XBMC Player is... PTVL won't respond till the player is finished loading. I maybe can force the EPG/Overlay to load, but I believe XBMC won't give focus to PTVL so your keypresses wouldn't register. Making the display useless...I figured this much, but would it be possible to make the XBMC Player return control to PTVL once it has given the error and allow the user to change the channel? Right now as I mentioned PTVL closes when it encounters this error and it would make it alot easier to simply change the channel to a working channel instead of crashing completely and putting me in the PTVL loop of death.
(2013-12-13, 23:19)Lunatixz Wrote: Hope that helps...
Thanks Luna, as I also mentioned, I'm going to donate to this project as soon as I cut the Cable. Your donation will be my entire month of Cable bill, and I encourage everyone else that is doing the same thing to also donate 1 month of Cable when you do finally cut the cord. I'm excited to see where this project will be in 3 months, even 1 year from now as long as we can keep you motivated to keep up your hard work!
