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

[pleyraki]

Hi. The reason I am asking is that after installing the 6.3 ver of sage and the new ver of dynamic menus, everything works OK, except I cannot change the "online services" menu.

When I am in it, pressing esc or right clicking does not show the dynamic menu config., but the standard config. In all other menus, the thing works fine.

Maybe it is because the menu is in 3 columns now? Any ideas? Thanks.

[Lucas]

The new online service menu, unless I am mistaken, is an internal SageTV screen and is not part of the menu.xml structure, so it cannot be modified.

[Sean977]

Actually, you can modify it using studio. I've added my movie times and IMDB search items to it.

[ejkeebler]

Sean977, you mentioned you added your movie times and imdb stuff to it? If you could, what do those items do? I love the online stuff and am always looking for new things to add to it!

[Sean977]

The Movie Times button allows you to view movie listings, trailers and showtimes in SageTV. You can find the stvi created by aperry in the SageTV Customizations section.

The IMDB Search button can search for and display information from the Internet Movie Data Base. This stvi was created by Nielm and can also be found in the SageTV Customizations section.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by Lucas

The new online service menu, unless I am mistaken, is an internal SageTV screen and is not part of the menu.xml structure, so it cannot be modified.

yep.
It is also dynamically generated with the help of SageTV/STVs/SageTV3/OnlineVideos/*.properties

If you want weather to be a link in a separate page (Eg I have:
Main menu/Information Menu containing links to weather, IMDB, RSS reader, Online Services, and a couple of fixed web-pages), then paste this menuitemlet:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE sageMenu PUBLIC "-//NIELM//DTD SAGEMENU XML 1.4//EN" "http://sageplugins.sourceforge.net/nielm_modules/dynamic_menu/sagemenu_1_3.dtd">
<sageMenu version="1.4">
    <internalScreenMenuItem screen="Weather" title="Weather">
        <evalExpression> </evalExpression>
    </internalScreenMenuItem>
</sageMenu>

[ejkeebler]

Originally Posted by Sean977

The Movie Times button allows you to view movie listings, trailers and showtimes in SageTV. You can find the stvi created by aperry in the SageTV Customizations section.

The IMDB Search button can search for and display information from the Internet Movie Data Base. This stvi was created by Nielm and can also be found in the SageTV Customizations section.

ok I may have misunderstood, i thought maybe you somehow added those to your online services section and wanted to see how that was, i have both those plugins and love them both.

I'm really wanting to revamp my online services property file, but its a bit confusing how everything is listed in there, i've managed to add a couple podcasts and even a new button, but I'd like to reorganize them all and include only the youtube/google/podcasts I want.

Hope a tool comes out for that soon and makes it a little easier....

[bcjenkins]

Nielm,

Would it be possible to add the ability to toggle the disk space area between space and weather? Since the unsupported extras support disk space, I would like to use the disk space in the dyn menus for weather.

Thanks in advance,

B

[wado1971]

I'll second the request for the weather on menus but I'd like to suggest a different location (sorry bcjenkins but I still use nielm’s diskspace option) So, I was recently playing with the idea of displaying the weather inside the mediafile panel visible only when no video/music is playing. It seems to work well so far and I like using that dead space for something useful.
Hope this could be considered.
wado

[Brent]

How do I add a path for an external program?

I've done the following:
New
NewExternal Program
(entered Name)
(not sure how to enter path where it says "enter arguments for "

How do I do this?

EDIT: Never mind, I figured this out - I should have used "browse" in the first step to simply browse to the external program I wanted to launch...

[Brent]

Okay next question. Is there a way to keep the external program minimized when launching it? I've got a cli program that I'm launching from a menu item (using dynamic menus), but I need SageTV to maintain focus even while that cli program is running. Is this possible?

[CollinR]

What is the program?

Often you can add a \min or -min to the arguments and the new application will run minimized.

[Brent]

Originally Posted by CollinR

What is the program?

Often you can add a \min or -min to the arguments and the new application will run minimized.

I'm launching a cmd that in turn runs dvd decrypter to rip a dvd, then does a transcode to smaller file size.

Would I just add a \min argument in the dynamic menus?

[CollinR]

Create a shortcut to the batch file and in the shortcut properties choose run minimized. Now call the shortcut *.lnk file from dynamic menus.

You would also need to add minimize arguments to each application in the batch too.

[SpaceFuzz]

OK. Before I blow away my entire Sage directory and start with a clean install, I wanted to see if anyone else has had this problem and if there is an easy fix:

I upgraded to the latest beta Sage (v6.3.10.166) and starting with the default install (no other imports, and only my settings that came in from the *.properties), and imported Dynamic Customisable Menu (DCM v6.4). It appears to load, the menu "redraws itself," and then I am unable to select ANY items on the menu, or move off of the menu in any way. The only options I have found that work are: 1) picking an upcoming recording from the bottom bar allows me to alter recording details or cancel the recording, or 2) right-click on the menu and get the DCM pop-up menu allowing me to load/change/save menu details (I can navigate this pop-up just fine). Picking main menu items with the mouse, using the keyboard, or the remote does not do anything other than scroll my selector up and down.

Any clues?

I have reverted back to the default menu, and imported Comskip_playback.stvi, and it imported fine. Not sure what else to try, other than blow away the directory and reinstall with my preserved WIZ. I have remnants of old Sage versions in my structure--trusting that an upgrade overwrites any files needed. And I have not deleted any *.properties files when upgrading versions. I also enabled debugging and attached a snippet of what I THINK is the DCM import process--and it shows some failures. Need a smart person to interpret. Thanks!

[Neo]

I have a problem with dynamic menus (using v6.4) after upgrading SageTV from 6.2.10 to 6.3.10. When I try to save the menu file, I get an error "Menu file write failed -- see logging".
I figured logging is done to sagetvclient_0.txt after setting debug_logging=TRUE in sageclient.properties. All I get in this file is this:

sö 3/16 16:41:07.836 WritingC:\Program\SageTV\SageTV\my_menu.xml_new
sö 3/16 16:41:07.853 processOptionsMenu optionsMenu=default:null|OptionsMenu:confirm

Does anyone know what is wrong?

[gplasky]

Make sure you installed the plugin properly and unzip in the appropriate directory. Then right-click and go to file-load and make sure to load the Default_menu_v6_3.xml. Then go and make and save your changes.


Gerry

[Neo]

yes, I've done that. I also tried making a copy of the default_menu_v6_3.xml and loaded that one. But saving it again does not work.

[gplasky]

Make sure the file didn't end up as read only. Also make sure you had shut down SageTV and/or the service (not just put it to sleep) when you installed Dynamic menus.


Gerry

[Neo]

I've made sure the file is writable. I made a copy of the file, but this can not be saved from within sagetv/dynmenus either. I have noticed there is a file called Default_menu_v6_3.xml_new that shows up, with size 0 bytes. I also tried to reinstall dynmenus, and reimported it in SageTV too. But I still have the same error.