XBMC Script for SageTV Released 3/1/2006

[ryan711]

xbox-scene.com

[ryan711]

for the guide have you checked to see if you can integrate any of these into your script: http://www.xbmcscripts.com/modules/m...d=15&Itemid=36

[Coolwave]

I have looked a lot at the myTV script. It's a great script, but I'm really not satisfied with the way data is loaded or the speed of it. I can find what I'm looking for faster with my guide when it all comes down to it. myTV is just too slow. If someone needs some code for setting a recording or something to modify the myTV script, just pm me.

Basically for the guide to happen I'm going to have to first find a way store the data locally on the xbox and update the data when needed. This is the only way to keep the same experience of the normal guide. I haven't even started anything, so don't get your hopes up. I really like where the script is right now and it's going to be a little lower in priority for me in the future. I use this script every day, so obviously if there's something cool that needs to be added, I'll want to do it.

Possible comskip support... need help!
Okay, I think I could support comskip files, but I need a way to access them. I can't read them over the network. XBMC's python doesn't support it. Basically all I would need is for the webserver to be able to serve up the comskip text file if it was called for and then it could be downloaded and saved right before playback. I'm pretty sure I could get it to read the text file and skip the marked sections. So if anyone can add that support to the webserver, please help!

[ryan711]

So do you think eventually you could get the sage epg running on it, or you might be able to take the epg from the mythtv script thats available. Can't comment on the speed as i've never used it, but as far as aestectics go its really good, not as good as sage's but still good. Here is the link to the mythtv script. http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv

[mikejaner]

Coolwave,
I just wanted to say, great job on this script. I softmodded a virgin Xbox tonight and got XBMC and the Sagetv Script working very easily. I was wondering when you would support 720P and 1080i resolutions. I had to downgrade XBMC in order to get the SageTV script to show up full screen.
Thanks again for all of your hard work.
Mike

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by jettman

This looks very interesting.
I have never tried to mod an xbox.
All I want to do is use XBMC to use the XBox as a Sage client.
I can't figure out exactly what I need to mod or change.
Can someone tell me exactly what to do?

Jettman,
It is very easy now days to softmod your xbox. I can tell you exactly what you need if you have a few things set up first. You need an xbox memory card, and a way to hook it up to a PC via USB cable. I used a special xbox to usb hub, where I hooked it to a controller and plugged the memory card into the controller. Once you get there, let me know what you need to know.
Mike

[kricker]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Coolwave,
I just wanted to say, great job on this script. I softmodded a virgin Xbox tonight and got XBMC and the Sagetv Script working very easily. I was wondering when you would support 720P and 1080i resolutions. I had to downgrade XBMC in order to get the SageTV script to show up full screen.
Thanks again for all of your hard work.
Mike

I am running a current build of XBMC (XBMC-CVS_2006-03-06-T3CH) and the SageTV script works perfectly fine? What seems to be your trouble?
Also how the heck did you get smooth 1080i playback?

[Cazador]

Originally Posted by
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Possible comskip support... need help![/B]
Okay, I think I could support comskip files, but I need a way to access them. I can't read them over the network. XBMC's python doesn't support it. Basically all I would need is for the webserver to be able to serve up the comskip text file if it was called for and then it could be downloaded and saved right before playback. I'm pretty sure I could get it to read the text file and skip the marked sections. So if anyone can add that support to the webserver, please help!

I don't think it would be that hard to have the webserver send it .. the compskip files are the same name as the orignal file with a .txt extention .. xbmc uses mplayer and that supports .edl files . I haven't been able to get xbmc to load the edl files. If using showanalyzer you can make eld files.

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by kricker

I am running a current build of XBMC (XBMC-CVS_2006-03-06-T3CH) and the SageTV script works perfectly fine? What seems to be your trouble?
Also how the heck did you get smooth 1080i playback?

I am talking about having the interface run in 1080i, not video. I cannot get mpeg2 streams to playback in XBMC, but HD Divx files will play, so I want to be running at that resolution for when I play those.
Mike

[kricker]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

I am talking about having the interface run in 1080i, not video. I cannot get mpeg2 streams to playback in XBMC, but HD Divx files will play, so I want to be running at that resolution for when I play those.
Mike

I am not positive on this, but if the XBMC skin you are currently running supports 1080i Coolwave's script should work @ 1080i. What does it look like for you?

[Coolwave]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Coolwave,
I just wanted to say, great job on this script. I softmodded a virgin Xbox tonight and got XBMC and the Sagetv Script working very easily. I was wondering when you would support 720P and 1080i resolutions. I had to downgrade XBMC in order to get the SageTV script to show up full screen.
Thanks again for all of your hard work.
Mike

Good to hear about your experiences, I obviously am not running an HDTV, huh? This is my first time trying to write an XMBC script, so I'm learning something new every second I spend online. I have seen ways that are supposed to be easy to properly support those resolutions in a script. I haven't really looked into them since nobody's said anything until now. I'm sure it'll be an easy addtion.

Originally Posted by ryan711

So do you think eventually you could get the sage epg running on it, or you might be able to take the epg from the mythtv script thats available. Can't comment on the speed as i've never used it, but as far as aestectics go its really good, not as good as sage's but still good. Here is the link to the mythtv script. http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv

Thanks for the link. I just downloaded it and looked at it a bit. Wow... talk about being waaaay ahead of my script. Beautifully coded/structured script. I do think it's possible to adapt the guide from the mythTV script and it does look pretty good. The only thing is that I really don't have that kind of time right now. The biggest problem is that I need to find a way to load data to the Xbox harddrive and update it when needed. This is the only way to get good use of the guide IMO.

Coolwave

[kricker]

I'll get it setup on my HDTV this week too (I have a few hours here and there while the new baby boy sleeps) and see what happens. I never even thought about it looking different in a HD res.

[mikejaner]

Originally Posted by kricker

I am not positive on this, but if the XBMC skin you are currently running supports 1080i Coolwave's script should work @ 1080i. What does it look like for you?

Basically if I am running XBMC at 1080, when I launch the SageTV script, the interface squishes up to the top left of the screen. A 1/4th size version of the screen with all of the rest being just black.

Originally Posted by Coolwave

Good to hear about your experiences, I obviously am not running an HDTV, huh? This is my first time trying to write an XMBC script, so I'm learning something new every second I spend online. I have seen ways that are supposed to be easy to properly support those resolutions in a script. I haven't really looked into them since nobody's said anything until now. I'm sure it'll be an easy addtion.

No problem, not in a hurry, just letting you know, so you might consider adding it in the future. I am running at 480P for now, which is fine. It runs great and you have done a supurb job so far.

[tetmin]

I'm having a bit of a problem setting this up if anyone can help...

I've done everything properly, I can access the sagetv web interface via 192.168.0.2:8080/sage/home as you're supposed to be able to, but for some reason the xbox can't find it!??

So it works on every computer in the house, but the xbox throws up the message "unable to connect to http://sage:frey@192.168.0.2:8080." when i run sagetv.py in xbmc.

This is really driving me mad, because i need this to work.

Thanks

[kricker]

Originally Posted by tetmin

I'm having a bit of a problem setting this up if anyone can help...

I've done everything properly, I can access the sagetv web interface via 192.168.0.2:8080/sage/home as you're supposed to be able to, but for some reason the xbox can't find it!??

So it works on every computer in the house, but the xbox throws up the message "unable to connect to http://sage:frey@192.168.0.2:8080." when i run sagetv.py in xbmc.

This is really driving me mad, because i need this to work.

Thanks

Edit the settings.xml file, look for the line

	<Connection Ipaddress="192.168.0.2" Password="frey" Port="8080" UserId="sage"/>

then change the info as required.

Also you might need to make sure the Xbox is even on the network correctly, check the XBMC network settings as well.

[Coolwave]

tetmin, it seems like the error message would show that it properly read the ip address and other connection info correctly, but it can't read the webserver's home webpage. What is the ip address of the Xbox? Can you access files over SMB from your SageTV server in XBMC? Can you ping your Xbox from your SageTV server? There must be something wrong with the network setup of the Xbox or else you're just missing some little thing... I guess, what version of XBMC are you running? And are you running v2.6 of nielm's webserver?

[Coolwave]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

Basically if I am running XBMC at 1080, when I launch the SageTV script, the interface squishes up to the top left of the screen. A 1/4th size version of the screen with all of the rest being just black.

I have no way of testing this and I don't know exactly the first build of XBMC that supports scaling the way I implimented it, but I threw in a line of code here and there hoping that XBMC will do all the magic. It didn't crash on my Xbox, and that's all I know.

The only code that's changed is for supporting all resolutions, so if you need it, download this. Just change SageTV.txt to SageTV.py and let me know if this works! *fingers crossed*

[mikejaner]

That worked Coolwave, thanks!!

[roofus]

Awesome work, needs a watch live TV button, I know the web server doesn't let you do that but a little innovation makes it work.

OK, a watch button for currently playing programs would have to start recording the show through the web interface and then immediately start streaming that file.

You might not get to do it instantly but much quicker than browsing the guide, telling it to record, and then selecting that recording to watch, which is currently the only way with this script.

[hattmall]

Coolwave Awesome Awesome Awesome This is the best thing for SageTV/Xbox yet. This really makes light of some of the "Amazing new Features" of XBOX 360 and makes SageTV a much more desirable PVR. Thanks for all your hardwork.

I could see this becoming a replacement for the XBMC GUI by Auto Loading this Script at Startup for people that want to use XBOX mainly as DVR. (Possible Feature: Add a way to Lanuch Games directly from the HD)

It may be possible to somehow speed somethings up and or have the guide working the way you were talking about with it being stored on the xbox, by doing this.
You can use XBMC to make the harddrive of your xbox (F Partition if you have installed upgraded hdd) become a SMB share. You can then "map network drive" to it in Windows XP. Doing this you could actully install SageTV on the XBOX and have it runninng on your computer, or you could at least store the recordings or some of the guide data. I don't know much about the innerworking of SageTV

Have you looked at the MediaPortal Program / Media Portal XBMC Script, it is OK.

As for HDTV. Properly Encoded files look just as good coming through XBOX composite as they do playing through DVI on computer over LCD HDTV.

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