Plugin: Web User Interface for SageTV 2.2-6.6 (V2.25 18 Sep 2009)

[nielm]

command line tool for displaying which process is using which port on Windows:
http://www.diamondcs.com.au/openports/

[mkanet]

The openports tool worked perfectly! Now we know that having a default/typical install of IIS running in the background will use port 443.

---------- Output.txt----------------------------------------
inetinfo.exe [1648]
TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:1031 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:3456 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
--------------------------------------------------------------

Great tool. Thanks guys for helping!

[Blkhrtd]

Neilm, thank you so very much for the time and effort you've put into this project and all the other one's you work on as well. This webserver is excellent. This was the one missing element that my MythTV friends would taunt me with. I was able to download, follow the directions on the Wiki and have it up and running within 10 mins or so. Very nice.

Thank you very much for your time and effort.

-Shadrach

[Stuntman]

Not a biggie.. was wondering if anybody else sees this..

If I go to 'schedule recordings' then select 'upcoming recordings' I get a list of all upcoming recordings as expected.. if I then hover over 'program guide' the dropdown menu then comes down BUT the 'for encoder' dropdown on the recording schedule screen seems to overlay the 'program guide' menu...

See the attached image...
Webservererror.GIF

Is there a workaround for this? It certainly isn't a show stopper, but thought I'd mention it!

[nielm]

its a bug in IE
Workaround: use a better browser (Firefox/Opera!)

[Stuntman]

Originally Posted by nielm

its a bug in IE
Workaround: use a better browser (Firefox/Opera!)

Yeah, I use both (there are still some places that FireFox just doesn't cut it with, thought it's Microsoft's fault as most site developers develop for IE functionality, right or wrong!) I'm using IE7's beta too.. so it doesn't appear to be something they have fixed, or plan to fix...

[mkanet]

Is there a way to change "Today PrimeTime" and "Tomorrow PrimeTime" to start from 8pm instead of 6pm? I couldnt find any information on this on Wiki.

[Alfiegerner]

Can anyone help me debug this? I've reverted back to 2.28 temporarily to try and get everything stable for a bit and now can't seem to get the webserver running. I've followed the trouble shooting guide but am getting no logs.

These are the exceptions displayed by the debug console:

Wed 12/21 2:28:47.781 (Retryable)Error communicating with encoding server:java.i
o.EOFException
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.504 Exception in thread "Startup-net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.
StartServer" Wed 12/21 2:28:48.504      at net.sf.sageplugins.sageutils.SageApi.
Api(SageApi.java:17)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at net.sf.sageplugins.sageutils.SageApi.StringApi(SageAp
i.java:85)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at net.sf.sageplugins.sageutils.SageApi.GetProperty(Sage
Api.java:130)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer.run(StartSer
ver.java:28)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[nielm]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Is there a way to change "Today PrimeTime" and "Tomorrow PrimeTime" to start from 8pm instead of 6pm? I couldnt find any information on this on Wiki.

edit the menu_items.js -- they are just saved URLs in the menu file -- just change the '18' to '20':

[
    'Today PrimeTime',
    'EpgGrid?starthr=18',
    {
    'title' :'Show the EPG Grid view for today at 18:00h'
    }
],
[
    'Tomorrow PrimeTime',
    'EpgGrid?starthr=18&startdate=1',
    {
    'title' :'Show the EPG Grid view for tomorrow at 18:00h'
    }
],

[nielm]

Originally Posted by Alfiegerner

Can anyone help me debug this? I've reverted back to 2.28 temporarily to try and get everything stable for a bit and now can't seem to get the webserver running. I've followed the trouble shooting guide but am getting no logs.

The logs you give are very odd -- the webserver code is failing to call Sage API functions on startup so it fails to start...
Is sage 2.2.8 working at all ? Did you uninstall the previous version before reverting?

[Alfiegerner]

Hi nielm, thanks for the response.

Yeah apart form the webserver its working fine. If its an unfamiliar exception I wouldn't worry about it too much - I've done so much installing / uninstalling of all sorts of apps lately its probably something in my setup. Also, as soon as I get back tonight I'll be installing the latest 4.14 beta as I'm desperate to try out the PAL MVP support. I'll let you know how I get on.

Just to let you, when i did have the webserver up and running before I was totally blown away with it. Brilliant bit of software. The only feature request I'd like to see in it is a thumbnail / gallery type set up for the picture imports.

[owilsky]

I have a strange problem, I cannot add a favourite that is only recorded on a specific day. I try to record "The Simpsons", but only on Saturdays, because that is the newest season. Monday-Friday there are reruns of older seasons.

But I only get this exception whenever I enter a"Saturday":

id:5745103 -- java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: Exception while executing SageApi: "UpdateFavorite" numargs=15

I guess it is not a problem with the webserver, because I am not able to create that favourite within the SageTV GUI, but who knows....

Has anybody else seen this? I also tested it with the original SageTV3.xml without any imports, but no luck...

[Alfiegerner]

Originally Posted by Alfiegerner

Can anyone help me debug this? I've reverted back to 2.28 temporarily to try and get everything stable for a bit and now can't seem to get the webserver running. I've followed the trouble shooting guide but am getting no logs.

These are the exceptions displayed by the debug console:

Wed 12/21 2:28:47.781 (Retryable)Error communicating with encoding server:java.i
o.EOFException
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.504 Exception in thread "Startup-net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.
StartServer" Wed 12/21 2:28:48.504      at net.sf.sageplugins.sageutils.SageApi.
Api(SageApi.java:17)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at net.sf.sageplugins.sageutils.SageApi.StringApi(SageAp
i.java:85)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at net.sf.sageplugins.sageutils.SageApi.GetProperty(Sage
Api.java:130)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at net.sf.sageplugins.webserver.StartServer.run(StartSer
ver.java:28)
Wed 12/21 2:28:48.505   at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Just in case anyone else gets this problem - a clean install of java sorted it for me, including deleting the whole c:\program files\java directory.

[robk]

I've been using the webserver for several months now, and just installed the latest version. Very nice! But, I ran into a problem - in the EPG, if I choose a program, "Play in SageTV" doesn't show up, (the first choice is "Record") and the web remote errors out with "Webserver running in Service mode -- cannot execute any commands". What am I missing?
Thanks,
Rob

[nielm]

If you are using service mode, the webserver cannot control the front-end because it is a separate process.
You need to configure the webserver *also* in the sageclient.properties using a different port to control the client front-end... (this is in the wiki docs somewhere)

[robk]

I'll read the docs. Seems strange though - SageTV service control shows Service State: Stopped. I never ran Sage as a service.
Rob

[ToxMox]

robk I'm curious. What version of Sage are you running?

[jreichen]

I'm having the same problem and am not running as a service. 'Currently watching' doesn't show up on the home page either.

Nielm: I found that 'GetAllWidgets' is returning a zero-length array so hasUI is false.

Sage 4.1.3.67. Webserver 2.3

[robk]

Toxmox-
I'm running 4.1.3.67, installed over previous version, saved old sage.properties and wiz.bin .
Rob

[nielm]

Ok.. looks like the webserver needs an update to be able to control the front-end on v4.1...

I did suspect this during the beta of 4.1, but have not yet had time to do a fix, and will probably not be able to do anything before mid Jan... (haven't even had time to upgrade my own system to 4.1!)

It's related to the way a single Sage process has to handle multiple front-ends for MVPs -- if anyone cares, you have to call GetUIContextNames() and then instead of the Java API call: sage.SageTV.api() you have to call sage.SageTV.apiUI(String uiContext, String method, Object[] args)...