Wishlist for SageTV?

[KarylFStein]

Originally Posted by Zogg

3. Way to get system messages emailed or texted to me

[apparently there have been plugins to do this but they are unsupported/out of date now]

Yes, it is unsupported, but SageAlert works fine in v9. There is a supported plugin that uses PushBullet, but I prefer email.

[VCRUser]

1. Update Client/Placeshifter so that the "always on top" works again. The only way I can use it is to use an old (java 6) placeshifter, and keep my system at Java 6. Client insists on Java 7, which destroys always-on-top. Since I do much of my viewing in a small window in the corner of my PC screen, the on-top feature is critical to me.

2. Treat all videos as "shows" and make it easier to set up parsing so that (e.g.) PlayOn recordings with files named ShowName-SeasonNumber-EpisodeNumber-EpisodeName show up as recorded shows under the correct name and can be ordered by season/episode numbers in the display. I've heard that BMT is supposed to help with this, but have had no success doing anything useful with BMT for lack of clear documentation. Having this as an available setup-setting would be really helpful.

3. In a list of shows, instead of having to hit page-down or the remote equivalent many times to scroll down to, say, shows starting with "R" (or, which is somewhat helpful, typing "7" or "8" to get into the general vicinity) being able to start typing the show name as "R..." to get there.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by KarylFStein

Yes, it is unsupported, but SageAlert works fine in v9. There is a supported plugin that uses PushBullet, but I prefer email.

And SageAlert gives you a bunch of options including Growl/Prowl for notification. Back in the good old days it could also Tweet all of this information but that stopped working when Twitter closed up their API. It also can send you alerts when all sorts of things happen - like clients connecting or disconnecting, shows start recording, etc.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

1. Update Client/Placeshifter so that the "always on top" works again. The only way I can use it is to use an old (java 6) placeshifter, and keep my system at Java 6. Client insists on Java 7, which destroys always-on-top. Since I do much of my viewing in a small window in the corner of my PC screen, the on-top feature is critical to me.

2. Treat all videos as "shows" and make it easier to set up parsing so that (e.g.) PlayOn recordings with files named ShowName-SeasonNumber-EpisodeNumber-EpisodeName show up as recorded shows under the correct name and can be ordered by season/episode numbers in the display. I've heard that BMT is supposed to help with this, but have had no success doing anything useful with BMT for lack of clear documentation. Having this as an available setup-setting would be really helpful.

3. In a list of shows, instead of having to hit page-down or the remote equivalent many times to scroll down to, say, shows starting with "R" (or, which is somewhat helpful, typing "7" or "8" to get into the general vicinity) being able to start typing the show name as "R..." to get there.

For #2... Did you click the help link in BMT? Where is has a link to the user guide, youtube channel, etc.

For #2, possible #3, have you tried Gemstone or Phoenix UI... these UI don't care about recordings and will group imported tv and recorded tv into the same view.

[wayner]

I am not sure about recordings but in a Movie Wall view in Gemstone you can press a letter on the remote to jump to movies that start with that letter. It uses the "keyboard on a dialpad" lettering scheme so pressing 6 takes you to M, etc.

[Zogg]

Originally Posted by KarylFStein

Yes, it is unsupported, but SageAlert works fine in v9. There is a supported plugin that uses PushBullet, but I prefer email.

I will give it a try, thanks.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by wayner

I am not sure about recordings but in a Movie Wall view in Gemstone you can press a letter on the remote to jump to movies that start with that letter. It uses the "keyboard on a dialpad" lettering scheme so pressing 6 takes you to M, etc.

You can modify this too in gemstone options on a flow to allow typing letters to filter the results...

k

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by KarylFStein

Not a SageTV issue, but having an Android client be able to play back Comcast streams with 5.1 audio without me having to transcode the files .

On the topic of the Android client, Chromecast support would be great.

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by stuckless

For #2... Did you click the help link in BMT? Where is has a link to the user guide, youtube channel, etc.

For #2, possible #3, have you tried Gemstone or Phoenix UI... these UI don't care about recordings and will group imported tv and recorded tv into the same view.

I recall trying the "help" and didn't find it very helpful. I have since uninstalled BMT because I was concerned that it might be causing some webserver problems. I think I'll want to back up my installation before giving it another try.

Similarly for Gemstone: I've heard about it, but if you give it a try, can you go back to other UIs if it doesn't work for you? From the info I've seen (again, I couldn't find any real documentation available before trying it), a lot of it is devoted to display of busy fanart images, when I prefer to see mostly text, so I'm wondering whether it's worth the effort.
(edit) - I looked at another thread, and it looks like you might be the Gemstone developer - if so, if you can point me to some documentation, that would be really helpful.

[jusjoken]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

(edit) - I looked at another thread, and it looks like you might be the Gemstone developer - if so, if you can point me to some documentation, that would be really helpful.

The best documentation is still the Diamond write-up which is what Gemstone was based off....not entirely accurate but close.

k

[wayner]

You can very easily switch back to the default UI in Diamond. I am not sure about switching amongst the various 3rd party UIs.

[korben_dallas]

Originally Posted by wayner

[*]Update compression codecs.

I'd say this is a huge one because the answer I keep seeing to various playback/hardware issues is " well I just use Plex or abc tablet or xyz set top player " which requires conversion.

Originally Posted by wayner

[*]Integration of SJQ into core of SageTV.

Amen brother, so many scheduling things I'd like to do from within Sage but can't, and SJQ is no longer supported.

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by wayner

You can very easily switch back to the default UI in Diamond. I am not sure about switching amongst the various 3rd party UIs.

Just to be clear, I can still go back to the stock Sage7 or Sage3 UI (not a default Diamond UI) as needed if I install Gemstone?

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by jusjoken

The best documentation is still the Diamond write-up which is what Gemstone was based off....not entirely accurate but close.

k

Thanks; I did take a look at it and it answered some, but not all, of my questions. It mentioned a "simplified" view, which may be what I'm looking for (essentially, something resembling the Malore recordings view - as image-free as possible, I definitely don't want images in the background, just readable text with good contrast), but the link to an image shows up "Not found".

[KarylFStein]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

Just to be clear, I can still go back to the stock Sage7 or Sage3 UI (not a default Diamond UI) as needed if I install Gemstone?

Yes, under Detailed Settings > Advanced you change the UI package and UI theme back to the stock values.

[wayner]

I just thought of another one:

Change web UI authentication from basic auth to a full login page so that all browsers, especially on phones and other mobile devices, will autofill the password. That would make live SO much simpler when logging into the web UI from an iPhone or iPad.

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by wayner

I just thought of another one:

Change web UI authentication from basic auth to a full login page so that all browsers, especially on phones and other mobile devices, will autofill the password. That would make live SO much simpler when logging into the web UI from an iPhone or iPad.

I've solved this one by using the browser from within 1Password. It automatically authenticates basic auth.

[bigbill]

Support for accepting the hardware encoded MP4 stream files that the new HDHR's produce from OTA sources. I have written lots of scripts to do it after the fact, but it would be so much better if they were written to disk that way in the first place. (no cpu intensive software transcoding)

-Bill

[wayner]

And similar to that is support for the new ATSC 3.0 tuners when they start appearing, which will hopefully be sometime in 2018.

[DarkWolf77]

Originally Posted by Zogg

3. Way to get system messages emailed or texted to me

[apparently there have been plugins to do this but they are unsupported/out of date now]

There is also the pushbullet plugin which has worked great for me. It's not exactly the same, but it certainly can get a notification to you and it's pretty much lag free.