2015-02-11, 00:29
Hi Luna,
First off, thanks for the great addon. I’m mostly finished with my configuration and its working great (albeit a bit complicated and unstable to setup)
I’ve got 2 questions that I’ve searched for and haven’t found any relevant information on.
1:
My biggest annoyance with pseudoTV right now is the menu. When I am going up and down in channels on the menu (or even left and right through time) it takes about 0.5 – 1 second to show the next channel and scroll down the menu. Normally this isn’t a problem at all, although a faster response would be great I understand the limitations of the program. However the problem occurs when using my remote control or TV, I press down, and subconsciously hold down the down arrow because of the delayed reaction time. This as a result will cause the remote to go into repeated keypress mode and press down say 10 times per second as it should. Unfortunately it seems PsuedoTV doesn’t handle this well at atll, because now after 3 seconds of holding the remote arrow XBMC has registered 30 keypresses. And as I said earlier each scroll down can take 0.5-1 second, this can result in 30 seconds of just watching the menu scroll while all input is ignored. The effect is even worse if I intentionally hold down the scroll button to go through say 30 channels or so, and hold it for 10 seconds or so, sometimes I have to sit for about 2 minutes just for the guide to stop scrolling from the repeated keypresses.
So the question is, Is there a way to have pseudotv check for stale keypresses? Ie. Skip keypresses that were sent longer than 5 seconds ago? Or is this native to KODI kode and I should take it up with those developers? Is my only fix perhaps to have a faster system (my system isn’t slow by any means) or maybe there is a faster way to index the menu?
*edit* I would like to note i don't consider turning off repeated keypresses on my remote to be a good solution. Its a feature that is FANTASTIC when scrolling through a library of 500+ movies etc.
2:
There is no elegant way to integrate live events from addons currently.
Perhaps this is a feature request, but is anyone aware of a way to dynamically create channels with an individual stream, perhaps using superfavorites or smart playlists. Here is the idea I have in mind but I’m not sure how to implement it with the current tools and channeltypes we have.
If I have an addon that streams live sports or events( ie NBCSports, ESPN3, NHL Gamecenter) I can currently add the addon to pseudotv live and it will detect the top stream and create the channel. However I would like to reserve say 10 channels for ESPN3 and allow each channel to be its own ESPN stream, (or just play a dummy video/skip if there are not enough streams)
Allow me to illustrate what I am saying.
Current folder layout of NBCSports app:
Live Events/Upcoming
-Formula 1 Race (live)
-USA Gymnastics (live)
-Motocross (live)
- EPL Soccer (live)
Currently PsuedoTV would handle this by doing the following
Channel 1: Plays Formula 1 for 3 hours the USA Gymnastics for 3 hours etc…
The problem is that by the time the EPG shows the events they are no longer being aired.
My solution would be say reserve 5 channels
Channel 1: Formula 1
Channel 2: Gymnastics
Channel3 :Motocross
Channel4: EPL Soccer
Channel 5: No more content, can skip
And perhaps refresh the events that are live and the channels ever hour so all the current events are shown.
I don’t see why this can’t be implemented in a similar way to HDHOMERUN channels, having each stream be its own channel, and if the stream dies it just gets skipped. (the XMLTV would be generated from the app)
Is this possible in our current configuration? If not this would be an awesome feature (I wouldn’t mind helping to develop it if needed)
First off, thanks for the great addon. I’m mostly finished with my configuration and its working great (albeit a bit complicated and unstable to setup)
I’ve got 2 questions that I’ve searched for and haven’t found any relevant information on.
1:
My biggest annoyance with pseudoTV right now is the menu. When I am going up and down in channels on the menu (or even left and right through time) it takes about 0.5 – 1 second to show the next channel and scroll down the menu. Normally this isn’t a problem at all, although a faster response would be great I understand the limitations of the program. However the problem occurs when using my remote control or TV, I press down, and subconsciously hold down the down arrow because of the delayed reaction time. This as a result will cause the remote to go into repeated keypress mode and press down say 10 times per second as it should. Unfortunately it seems PsuedoTV doesn’t handle this well at atll, because now after 3 seconds of holding the remote arrow XBMC has registered 30 keypresses. And as I said earlier each scroll down can take 0.5-1 second, this can result in 30 seconds of just watching the menu scroll while all input is ignored. The effect is even worse if I intentionally hold down the scroll button to go through say 30 channels or so, and hold it for 10 seconds or so, sometimes I have to sit for about 2 minutes just for the guide to stop scrolling from the repeated keypresses.
So the question is, Is there a way to have pseudotv check for stale keypresses? Ie. Skip keypresses that were sent longer than 5 seconds ago? Or is this native to KODI kode and I should take it up with those developers? Is my only fix perhaps to have a faster system (my system isn’t slow by any means) or maybe there is a faster way to index the menu?
*edit* I would like to note i don't consider turning off repeated keypresses on my remote to be a good solution. Its a feature that is FANTASTIC when scrolling through a library of 500+ movies etc.
2:
There is no elegant way to integrate live events from addons currently.
Perhaps this is a feature request, but is anyone aware of a way to dynamically create channels with an individual stream, perhaps using superfavorites or smart playlists. Here is the idea I have in mind but I’m not sure how to implement it with the current tools and channeltypes we have.
If I have an addon that streams live sports or events( ie NBCSports, ESPN3, NHL Gamecenter) I can currently add the addon to pseudotv live and it will detect the top stream and create the channel. However I would like to reserve say 10 channels for ESPN3 and allow each channel to be its own ESPN stream, (or just play a dummy video/skip if there are not enough streams)
Allow me to illustrate what I am saying.
Current folder layout of NBCSports app:
Live Events/Upcoming
-Formula 1 Race (live)
-USA Gymnastics (live)
-Motocross (live)
- EPL Soccer (live)
Currently PsuedoTV would handle this by doing the following
Channel 1: Plays Formula 1 for 3 hours the USA Gymnastics for 3 hours etc…
The problem is that by the time the EPG shows the events they are no longer being aired.
My solution would be say reserve 5 channels
Channel 1: Formula 1
Channel 2: Gymnastics
Channel3 :Motocross
Channel4: EPL Soccer
Channel 5: No more content, can skip
And perhaps refresh the events that are live and the channels ever hour so all the current events are shown.
I don’t see why this can’t be implemented in a similar way to HDHOMERUN channels, having each stream be its own channel, and if the stream dies it just gets skipped. (the XMLTV would be generated from the app)
Is this possible in our current configuration? If not this would be an awesome feature (I wouldn’t mind helping to develop it if needed)
