STV Import: Dynamic Customisable Main Menu (v6.4 20/Dec/2007 for SageTV 5.0/6.0)

[lambda379]

Originally Posted by nielm

Are you sure that you do not have a xerces.jar (or another jar that may include it) in your classpath because that is exactly the error I got before I removed it
xerces.jar could be either in
Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\JARS
Program Files\SageTV\SageTV
Program Files\Java\JRE_x_y_z\lib\ext

My bad, I guess I should just do as instructed! I had just renamed xerces.jar and kept the renamed file in the same ...\lib\ext directory. As soon as I deleted the file completely everything worked perfectly. Sorry for the trouble.

[nielm]

[arielshu]

hmm... I really, really looked hard for xerces.jar and renamed all the ones I found, even rebooted but I still get the exact same error... anything else I can do?

[owilsky]

Originally Posted by arielshu

hmm... I really, really looked hard for xerces.jar and renamed all the ones I found, even rebooted but I still get the exact same error... anything else I can do?

Renaming does NOT help, you really have to delete it (or move it away).

Oliver

[cumak]

I'm running SageTV Client v5, and I can't seem to get any version of this STVI more recent than 5.2 to install properly. I've tried to upgrade by simply extracting the new ZIP files, and I've also tried reverting back to my original STV and re-importing. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[nielm]

5.6 is the latest version that should run with V5.
V6.1 will not.

You need to both unpack and re-import into the original STV to re-install..

Can you explain what problems you were you having?

[cumak]

nielm,

Thanks for your reply. I swear, I did exactly that (unpack, revert to original STV, and re-import) several times, but for some reason it decided to work this time.

The first time I reloaded SageTV I got a "Failed to load..." message pertaining to the default menu file, but I saw in an earlier post that I had to delete the net/sf subdirectory. Now everything looks good.

Thanks again.

[rickgillyon]

I've been trying to add the Picture Slideshow to the menu using this plugin. I've created new menu items using internal screens, using first the "Picture Slideshow" and then the "Screensaver" with the screensaver set to slideshow with a long timeout. In either case calling from the dynamic menu gives me a black screen. It thinks I'm in the slideshow because if I click I get the slideshow buttons, but I don't see any pictures. However, if I get the screensaver to kick in normally or call the slideshow from the photo browser, it works fine.

Any ideas?

Great plugin BTW, helps me control what the kids can access and makes it easier for them to find what they need...

[nielm]

when calling the slideshow from the photo browser, Sage passes a list of picture files, so you need to create a menu item that passes the same list...

Like this one (remove 2 of the 3 sort expressions to set the sorting criteria)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://www.sage-community.org/~nielm/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Picture Slideshow" title="Photo Slideshow">
        <evalExpression>AddStaticContext("SlideshowImages",  FilterByBoolMethod(GetMediaFiles(), "IsPictureFile", true))</evalExpression>

<!-- Remove 2 of the 3 following Sorting expressions -->

<!-- Sort by date  -->        
        <evalExpression>SlideshowImages = Sort(SlideshowImages, !GetProperty("photo_lib/sort_ascending", true), "GetAiringStartTime")</evalExpression>
<!-- Sort by filename -->
        <evalExpression>SlideshowImages = SortLexical(SlideshowImages, !GetProperty("photo_lib/sort_ascending", true), "GetShowEpisode")

<!-- Random sort -->
        <evalExpression>java_util_Collections_shuffle(java_util_Arrays_asList(SlideshowImages))</evalExpression>

</internalScreenMenuItem>
</sageMenu>

calling the slideshow window should work... I have no idea why it doesn't...

[rickgillyon]

That worked perfectly, thanks!

[nielm]

just re-edited it to add a Random Sort (in case you missed it!)

[joe123]

I have the latest SageTV version and Online videos enabled.

I am able to see Google Video, but no YouTube videos. What do I need to do to enabled YouTube?

I am using Neiml menus and did not see any YouTube reference to add.

[nielm]

see post 256 on previous page.

[Deadbolt]

Originally Posted by nielm

see post 256 on previous page.

When I add the piece for Youtube as described I get an error "Unknown Internal Screen: Online Video Shortcut"

Any ideas?

Thanks for the great import!

[lotusvball]

I have also been unable to get the "Online Services" menu option to work. I get it to show but when you try to select it nothing.

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

When I add the piece for Youtube as described I get an error "Unknown Internal Screen: Online Video Shortcut"

Any ideas?

Thanks for the great import!

What version of Sage are you running? STV?

[nielm]

Originally Posted by Deadbolt

When I add the piece for Youtube as described I get an error "Unknown Internal Screen: Online Video Shortcut"

Any ideas?

Use dynamic menus v6.1, which also requires Sage v6.1...

lotusvball: I don't understand what you are saying? You cannot get the online services menu (with weather, google, youtube) to display, or it displays but none of those menu items work (and do they report any errors)

[lotusvball]

I am using the newest Sage RC. I can setup a menu item "Online Services" but when I try to select it from the menu screen (after setup and save) it does nothing. It doesn't take me to the Online services menu.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by lotusvball

I am using the newest Sage RC. I can setup a menu item "Online Services" but when I try to select it from the menu screen (after setup and save) it does nothing. It doesn't take me to the Online services menu.

Gotcha. The original menus in Sage (eg online services, library, setup, schedule, search etc) are actually disabled in the dynamic menu plugin (because it causes menu navigation issues). What you need to is to duplicate the online services menu in the dynamic menus... Or just copy the online servcies menu item (with it's submeu and submenu items) from the 6.1 default menu.xml by...

• load the default_menus_6_1.xml
• highlight the Online services menu item and either right-click it, or hit Options
• Edit Menu Item - Copy to clipboard
• re-load your own menu.xml
• right-click/options
• Edit Menu Item - paste from clipboard
• move it up and down to taste
• Save

[lotusvball]

Thanks, Makes total sense. I will give it a try tonight. BTW, this is one of the best plugins for SageTV. And everyone that says the navigation in sage sucks hasn't tried this plugin yet. I set up sage the way I want.