STV Import: MovieTimes Movie Listings Import v0.57 Beta

[pvr599]

Hey Flachbar,
I am having the same problem as geogecko. I have no mainmenucontainer in Studio. I followed the instructions you gave to add it to My Menu and opened Studio again, but still no mainmenucontainer. I am using SageMC 169 v6.5, SageTV v4 and MovieTimes SageMC Import 055b.

I wasn't clear on the instructions on how to load this, so I followed the non-MC instructions. I probably really screwed up here.

I took the original version of MovieTimes and replaced that STV with the SageMC Import STV. I then renamed it from xml to stv. Then put them all in the correct SageTV folder. I put mtsa.exe and .xml files in C:\MovieTimes.
Started Sage and imported the SageMC Import STV.

When I try to add the menu item following the directions you gave to geogecko, there is no menu option to add for MovieTimes in the long list of items.

Are there some more detailed instructions somewhere I'm missing on how to get this to work with SageMC? I still can't figure out why I don't have mainmenucontainer in Studio.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dana

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by pvr599

I took the original version of MovieTimes and replaced that STV with the SageMC Import STV. I then renamed it from xml to stv.

Hi Dana,

there is no need to rename the plugin from xml to stv, since SageMC 6.6 will only import plugins with the extension *.xml. So I am guessing that you are actually not using the latest SageMC version, but the base version SageMC_169.stv ... ? Check under "Settings' in the right info pane, do you see a line "SageMC STV version" in there ?

Dirk

[mkanet]

I dont mean to be a pest, but I would really like to get this problem fixed... Currently, I cant use the plugin; since I cant read the show times.

Thanks in advance!
Michael

Originally Posted by mkanet

Aperry, the new MTSA did give me the rest of the trailers I was missing. Thanks!

However, I'm STILL having issues with display movie descriptionns and movie showtimes. I already tried re-importing the STVi See the attached screen shots. All my movie descriptions look like that. I noticed though, after I play a trailer, it displays the information correctly. I posted about this several posts back, but I guess you were busy at the time and overlooked my previous post.

EDIT: I tried t revert back to the oldest STV version I use, but the problem is still there! Unfortunately, starting from the stock STV isn't an option for me, I have lots of customizations that aren't from stvi's.

Currently, as nice as this addon is, it's not really that useful, since I can't read the showtimes! I would appreciate help to get this working soon. If it will help, i have also included my STV (actually its an XML)

[kricker]

Originally Posted by mkanet

I dont mean to be a pest, but I would really like to get this problem fixed... Currently, I cant use the plugin; since I cant read the show times.

Thanks in advance!
Michael

I can't promise you anything, but if I get a chance this week I'll take a look at it for you.

[mkanet]

Thanks Kricker! Some hope is better than nothing at all. I honestly tried.. but I dont understand studio well enough. Maybe aperry might see this and be able to help soon...

Originally Posted by kricker

I can't promise you anything, but if I get a chance this week I'll take a look at it for you.

[pvr599]

Hi Dirk,

When I look under Settings and look in the right pane, the first line says Software Version: SageTV V4.0.0.56. I don't see anything for SageMC which is strange since I'm pretty sure I'm using it. Maybe I'm not looking in the right spot.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by pvr599

Hi Dirk,

When I look under Settings and look in the right pane, the first line says Software Version: SageTV V4.0.0.56. I don't see anything for SageMC which is strange since I'm pretty sure I'm using it. Maybe I'm not looking in the right spot.

If you are not seeing "SageMC STV Version: 6.6" in the right pane, you are definetly not using it ... Did you maybe import the STV instead of loading it ? Check the line

STV=...SageTV\\SageTV\\STVs\\SageTV3\\SageMC_169.xml

in your Sage.properties (or SageClient.properties if you use service or client), it should point to the SageMC_169.xml from the 6.6 download. If not, shut down Sage completely and modify this line.

Dirk

[kricker]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Thanks Kricker! Some hope is better than nothing at all. I honestly tried.. but I dont understand studio well enough. Maybe aperry might see this and be able to help soon...

Okay, here you go. Give this file a whirl. I am no Studio expert, but things were confusing. It looked like you had imported the MovieTimes.stvi 3 times or more. I went thru and deleted anything that looked like it was related to that and started over. Things still looked screwed up so I deleted that lower panel item and replaced it from an import I made which contained a working version of that screen. I am not sure if I broke anything else you added or not. I tried not too.

[mkanet]

Thank you Kricker! I appreciate the time you took. I tried to reply back last night but SageTV forum was down immediately after you posted last night.

Unfortunately, this doesn't really fix the real problem. It look correct the way it is, but as soon as I try to re-import MovieTimes, it looks the same; which is inevitable when I try to load the next version of MovieTimes.

I don't have any issues with loading ANY other imports on top of themselves; in fact, I depend on that since starting from a blanch SVI isn't an option for me.

Aperry???? Can you please help so it doesnt screw up when trying to re-import? Again, I have no issues with other imports loading on top of themselves.

Thanks,
Michael

Originally Posted by kricker

Okay, here you go. Give this file a whirl. I am no Studio expert, but things were confusing. It looked like you had imported the MovieTimes.stvi 3 times or more. I went thru and deleted anything that looked like it was related to that and started over. Things still looked screwed up so I deleted that lower panel item and replaced it from an import I made which contained a working version of that screen. I am not sure if I broke anything else you added or not. I tried not too.

[dblaine2]

mkanet,

You can't load over top of a previously imported movietimes. That's why you get the screwed up display. You can't revert to an xml file that doesn't have movietimes imported into it?

[mkanet]

Nooo... that what I mentioned earlier. I "can" do this with all other imports!

Originally Posted by dblaine2

mkanet,

You can't load over top of a previously imported movietimes. That's why you get the screwed up display. You can't revert to an xml file that doesn't have movietimes imported into it?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by mkanet

I "can" do this with all other imports!

Which ones ?

[mkanet]

Here are the ones I can think off the top of my head which work fine when "upgrading" to a new version. On top of all of those, I have my own customizations.

Sleep Timer
Web Radio
Imdb Search
Dynamic Menus
Detailed Info

Originally Posted by flachbar

Which ones ?

[davin]

I just installed this last night. Thanks, aperry!!! I had a hiccup that I wanted to share...

I'm using Sage 5.0.4 and nielm's dynamic menus. I didn't bother with studio... I just added the MovieTimes internal screen to one of my menus, and that worked fine.

I had a big problem getting the initial list of movies to load. I entered my zip code in the locations field, but when I clicked on Reload Theaters, nothing happened... the default list of theaters was there. I tried restarting SageTV multiple times to no avail. I ended up going into the locations.xml file and deleting the list of theaters from the <Active> and <Inactive> areas. Still no dice.

At this point, I tried to run mtsa.exe manually from the command line and got an error. I realized that after doing an XP reinstall a few months back, I had never reinstalled .NET. So I connected to windows update, installed .NET 2.0, and then mtsa.exe ran, but now it was giving a different error which I thought had to do with having no theaters.

So, after finding a couple of posts on the mediaportal forums about mtsa... I ran mtsa from the command line with the /updatetheatersonly switch, and it successfully pulled down the theaters for the zip codes that I included! I then went back into Sage, selected the theaters that I wanted Active, reran mtsa from the command line (with no arguments) and it successfully downloaded times and trailers.

I don't know why it wouldn't do it from inside Sage... maybe it was because I tried first without .NET installed... but if you're having problems like this, try running mtsa.exe with the /updatetheatersonly option.

I haven't tried the trailers yet, since I need to get either mplayer or zoomplayer installed. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to set girder up to control one of these without messing with sage? Sage is using the native USB-UIRT support for IR commands, not girder with sendmessage. Do I need to go ahead and switch to girder control of sage so that I can switch back and forth between sage and mplayer/zoomplayer control configurations? Or is there some command to tell sage to stop paying attention to IR commands?

Thanks!

[jlabrue]

aperry,

I have had a problem that has been repeatable. I think it is possibly an mtsa issue but thought I would lob it out there. I am using the latest import and mtsa. It does indeed download many more trailers than before and also movie posters. I have had a problem with the posters though. It downloads some posters but the poster is different than the name. Also some of the descriptions are completely wrong for the movie. I have attached my files and the jpgs of the improperly found items. I deleted the jpgs and the moviedata to force it to download again but I got the same results.

[geogecko]

I had that same problem with Garfield and the Fast and Furrious 2. Not sure what's causing that...

[kricker]

Interesting. I just did a test with the new version and all my posters are perfectly named. But of the 3 you listed, I only have "the devil wears prada". Not the other two. Are you sure you got the latest version?

[key master]

Originally Posted by jlabrue

aperry,

I have had a problem that has been repeatable. I think it is possibly an mtsa issue but thought I would lob it out there. I am using the latest import and mtsa. It does indeed download many more trailers than before and also movie posters. I have had a problem with the posters though. It downloads some posters but the poster is different than the name. Also some of the descriptions are completely wrong for the movie. I have attached my files and the jpgs of the improperly found items. I deleted the jpgs and the moviedata to force it to download again but I got the same results.

I can confirm this as a problem. I ran it with my zip code and every poster was 100% correct. I ran your zip and the problem happened... which is good. This means I'll be able to fix it

It happens a lot more often when you select "low" as your poster quality, but not all the time. Thanks for your log.txt file, it will help greatly in fixing this.

-Jim

[geogecko]

Originally Posted by kricker

Interesting. I just did a test with the new version and all my posters are perfectly named. But of the 3 you listed, I only have "the devil wears prada". Not the other two. Are you sure you got the latest version?

Ah, I just had to delete the old posters, then the new version brought them all in perfectly.

[aperry]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Aperry???? Can you please help so it doesnt screw up when trying to re-import? Again, I have no issues with other imports loading on top of themselves.

This is something I'd like to do, but it's something that is way beyond my means. I'm using nielm's generic importer framework, but cannot seem to get it to work where you can have it load over itself.

I'll see if I can get in touch with nielm and see if he can tell me what I could do to get the reloads to work.

Until then, I'm sorry, but you'll have to do the reload the old-fashioned way when any new versions come out.

My suggestion for the time being would be to work with what you've got here for now. The next version will probably only be an MTSA fix to address the poster problems some reported.

Hopefully, I can get this to be reloadable soon as well (with nielm or someone else's help).