[XBMC addon] SageTV

[LehighBri]

More updates coming in. Just committed more updates... these commits add the ability to search for airings and also search for recordings. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.

[eric3a]

Excellent stuff. Just bought a Pivos XD and loaded XBMC Linux on it. Sweet little machine. Might end up being our HDx00 replacement if need be.

Love your SageTV/XBMC Video Add-on.

Any idea how to:
1) Sort titles by descending recording date? (Show most recent recording at the top)
2) Show the Add-on in the "Files" sub-Menu of "Videos"? I am running the standard "Confluence" skin where I already have Films, Documentaries, Shows, etc under Videos/Files.... That way I'd end up with the same setup I have on my HDx00s running SageMC. Would love to duplicate the feel of our existing clients.

Thanks for your efforts on this!
Eric

[kricker]

The sorting options can be found by pressing left when on the screen you want to sort. Put it on by Date and choose the sort order of your liking.

Addons can not be shown in the files section of videos. You can however make it a favorite and have it show up in the favorite list. If using confluence, you can set it up to show at the bottom of the screen on the main menu when any video node is highlited in the menu.

[eric3a]

Thanks for that.
I was familiar with the left arrow to bring up the sort menu.... however in my case it works in all other media, but not SageTV add-on.

I can bring up the sort menu, but when I highlight and press on "Title" in the sort options to switch it to something else, nothing happens. As if there were no other fields to sort on?
I can sort ascending or descending, so the sorting options work, but cannot select anything else than Title.

Haven't played with favorites yet. Could indeed be the answer.
Thanks the hard work you guys have put in this Add-On.
Eric

[eric3a]

Actually scratch that...
Testing again:
Sorting on Ascending or Descending appears to work at first (the sorting menu changes) but the actual file list isn't re-ordered, so the sorting doesn't work.

Eric

[kricker]

Which "screen" are you trying to sort?

[eric3a]

The "1. Watch Recordings" screen.

Eric

[kricker]

I thought that might be the case. That screen only shows the series sorted by title, either ascending or descending.

I am not sure how do-able sorting the series by the episodes' recording dates will be. You can sort the next level down "all shows" screen by date.

[eric3a]

Oh well;
Without page up and page down ability on the Pivos remote, grouping by date then title (stacking?) would have been best in my opinion, but still very happy to have an option to play SageTv recording within XBMC.

[kricker]

You can post it as a feature request on the Github page if you like. I will not promise it will happen, but if it is on Github, at least it'll not get forgotten right away.

[eric3a]

Entered in the github.
Clearly you'll have other more important things to work on, but holler if you need clarification/testing.

Eric

[LehighBri]

Originally Posted by eric3a

Entered in the github.
Clearly you'll have other more important things to work on, but holler if you need clarification/testing.

Eric

Eric - just added this enhancement in the latest commit to the github. Can you try it and let me know if this accomplishes what you described? It seems to be working for me (and note that I forces the "[All Shows]" option to have the greatest value such that it sorts to the top when descending and bottom when ascending).

https://github.com/kricker/plugin.vi...commits/master

[macsupergeek]

I don't understand what I did wrong. I shutdown sagetv and put the xbmc.js file in the sagex\services folder and restarted sagetv. I downloaded xbmc and installed it onto a PC. I downloaded the sagetv plugin from github and went to the system settings menu of xbmc and then chose install from zip and navigated and picked the .zip file. I then went to video-addon section and configured the IP address and port number and login information that I use on a daily basis for logging into bmt and the web server and also set the recording directories by drive letter and by UNC path and then saved that info. And then when I go to the video addon section and pick SageTV -- in the bottom right corner of the screen it popups -- Error Script Failed!

Any ideas?

[LehighBri]

Originally Posted by macsupergeek

I don't understand what I did wrong. I shutdown sagetv and put the xbmc.js file in the sagex\services folder and restarted sagetv. I downloaded xbmc and installed it onto a PC. I downloaded the sagetv plugin from github and went to the system settings menu of xbmc and then chose install from zip and navigated and picked the .zip file. I then went to video-addon section and configured the IP address and port number and login information that I use on a daily basis for logging into bmt and the web server and also set the recording directories by drive letter and by UNC path and then saved that info. And then when I go to the video addon section and pick SageTV -- in the bottom right corner of the screen it popups -- Error Script Failed!

Any ideas?

Can you use something like pastebin to share your log file so we can debug? The xbmc.log file can be found in the following folder:

C:\Users\<USERNAMER>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by macsupergeek

I don't understand what I did wrong. I shutdown sagetv and put the xbmc.js file in the sagex\services folder and restarted sagetv. I downloaded xbmc and installed it onto a PC. I downloaded the sagetv plugin from github and went to the system settings menu of xbmc and then chose install from zip and navigated and picked the .zip file. I then went to video-addon section and configured the IP address and port number and login information that I use on a daily basis for logging into bmt and the web server and also set the recording directories by drive letter and by UNC path and then saved that info. And then when I go to the video addon section and pick SageTV -- in the bottom right corner of the screen it popups -- Error Script Failed!

Any ideas?

In sagetv, do you have sagex-services plugin installed? The xbmc.js services file will only work if sagex-services is installed as well.

[LehighBri]

Originally Posted by stuckless

In sagetv, do you have sagex-services plugin installed? The xbmc.js services file will only work if sagex-services is installed as well.

The XBMC addon has logic that upon launch, it first checks if the sagex-api-services plugin is installed and will then let the user know if they don't have it installed and how to install it. Weird that he didn't even get that message which is why I'd like to see his log file.

[macsupergeek]

I will get the log file. As for sagetv yes I have web server 2.30.21 and sagex installed 7.1.9.1 well as last version of sagetv 7.1.9.256. I also tried the YouTube plugin and got a script failed on that too. Then I thought maybe it was a firewall thing so I tried it on a Mac laptop with mountain lion and still no good and yet plex works just fine on all 3 machines.

[kricker]

Once we have the log, we can begin to decipher your issue. Make sure you turn on debugging.

[macsupergeek]

Well, it was simple enough -- I found the log file and opened it and the error was in line 2 and 11, it didn't know what to do with "common = CommonFunctions" in the 'default.py' so I removed that line and I removed CommonFunctions from import line at the top and at least the browse recordings and playability works. Of course taking out that line has now broken the search function as common is referenced in that portion of the code later on. What I also find odd is that even though it is set as sort as Title/ascending that it is not a true alphabetical sort.

[kricker]

The Youtube addon should have installed the common functions. I am working on getting those dependencies sorted out.