Utility: Vista Sidebar Gadget

[JerryB]

I didn't think there was much more you could do to improve the gadget but the addition of the recording schedule in v1.4 was brilliant. Thanks for the update.

[voorhees]

Originally Posted by JerryB

I didn't think there was much more you could do to improve the gadget but the addition of the recording schedule in v1.4 was brilliant. Thanks for the update.

I concur. Great addition. I have been wanting that addition for a while. Thanks.

[cncb]

Thanks, I'm glad you guys like it.

[sbeaulieu]

Sweet! Like the update. Exactly what I was looking for.

[cheekymonkey]

very cool app, just noticed something that looks like a parsing problem

sidebar_problem.jpg

If I remove it the problem recoding, the pop-out shows all the upcoming schedules fine

the xml from the problem show is

- <sageShowInfo version="1.3">
- <channelList>
- <channel channelId="426">
<channelName>West TV</channelName>
<channelDescription>West TV</channelDescription>
<channelNetwork>West TV</channelNetwork>
<channelNumber>44</channelNumber>
</channel>
</channelList>
<favoriteList />
- <showList>
- <show epgId="DT72810171">
<title>4x4 WA</title>
<description></description>
- <airing channelId="426" duration="1440" sageDbId="6422179" startTime="2010-06-06T08:30:00.00Z">
<manualRecord />
<recordSchedule duration="1440" startTime="2010-06-06T08:30:00.00Z" />
</airing>
</show>
</showList>
</sageShowInfo>

[cncb]

Sorry, I don't know what the problem is. The XML looks fine - it does have an empty description but it should handle that fine.

[cheekymonkey]

The lack of a description does indeed break it. Not knowing js but willing to have a dig I found the problem in shared.js the offending line is

sorted[count++] = { title: t != null ? t.text : "", airingId: airings[j].getAttribute("sageDbId"), channelName: channel, channelId: airings[j].getAttribute("channelId"), description: desc != null ? desc.text : "", startTime: times.startTime, stopTime: times.stopTime };

if I changed it to

sorted[count++] = { title: t != null ? t.text : "", airingId: airings[j].getAttribute("sageDbId"), channelName: channel, channelId: airings[j].getAttribute("channelId"), description: desc , startTime: times.startTime, stopTime: times.stopTime };

everything worked fine

[cncb]

Instead of

description: desc

try

description: (desc != null && desc.text != null) ? desc.text : ""

Hopefully this will avoid the error and still give you the description in the tooltip. Let me know and I will update the file. Thanks.

[cheekymonkey]

Bummer same result. How about set the description to "n/a" as a default and overwrite it if a description does truely exist?

btw this channel I am having problems with is a community channel, that has just started up hence the reason why they haven't quite grasped the idea of fully populating the epg

[cncb]

Originally Posted by cheekymonkey

Bummer same result. How about set the description to "n/a" as a default and overwrite it if a description does truely exist?

This is basically what it should be doing but it may have a problem with an empty string. Let's try this:

description: (desc != null && desc.text != null && desc.text != "") ? desc.text : "Description not available."

[cheekymonkey]

Still no luck, but I did some digging and found the reason. Previously I had posted the xml as presented to by by IE, I looked at the source and it seems the description is filled with 17 instances of what maybe code for spaces
& # 0 ; (spaces added to get it to post)

Note this forum stuffs up my attempt to past the actual code

I have tried pasting the same code into the check, or putting the same number of spaces in but still failed.

Sorry for the confusion.
BTW I have put a call into the station to see if they can fix up the description probs, but they are also having other probs with the guide so asked me to call back when it is back on line

[wayner]

Would there be any reason why this would not work in V7? I have both a V6 and V7 server running right now - but I can't get the Gadget to work with V7. I am sure that everything is correct and clicking on the logo does open up the web page in my browser which would seem to indicate that the server name and port are ok since if I change these the web page does not load.

[darcilicious]

Works fine with v7 for me, no problems whatsoever.

[cncb]

Originally Posted by wayner

Would there be any reason why this would not work in V7? I have both a V6 and V7 server running right now - but I can't get the Gadget to work with V7. I am sure that everything is correct and clicking on the logo does open up the web page in my browser which would seem to indicate that the server name and port are ok since if I change these the web page does not load.

Make sure you don't have an old version of the web server running.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by cncb

Make sure you don't have an old version of the web server running.

I should be ok there since I installed it via the plugin manager for V7. I will try the gadget on a second PC tonight.

[wayner]

I am still unable to get this to work. I am sure that I have all of the parameters correct. I have tried on two different PCs, both running Win7 and my server is Sage7.

The Gadget shows the message: "NA - Check network connection, server, and settings."

But when I go in the Jetty logs I see the request come in to the server - Here is what I see:
192.168.1.96 - wayne [14/Sep/2010:21:07:58 +0000] "GET /sage/Home?xml=currrecording HTTP/1.1" 200 1206 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6.5; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; eMusic DLM/4; InfoPath.2; Media Center PC 5.0; SLCC1; OfficeLiveConnector.1.5; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)"

I think that I still might be having an authentication problem - how do I turn off passwords? When I tried not putting a password in the config UI in the plugin manager it didn't like not having a password.

[cncb]

Originally Posted by wayner

I think that I still might be having an authentication problem - how do I turn off passwords? When I tried not putting a password in the config UI in the plugin manager it didn't like not having a password.

Sorry, I'm not sure. You should ask the web UI guys about that.

[wayner]

OK thanks. Does it matter if I do not have Sage installed on the PC using this gadget? I see that the sage.js file has variables for the Sage Install Dir, Sage EXE, Client EXE, Sage reg settings, etc. What if your PC doesn't have these other than Placeshifter, will that cause problems. The main PC that I am working on used to have Sage installed but it doesn't anymore, but there may be some remnants of Sage left.

[darcilicious]

I use this widget on at least two PCs that don't have any SageTV software installed on them.

[wayner]

That's what I guessed so I can't figure out why it won't work for me. I have now tried three PCs and it is not working on any of the three. They are all running Win7. My old Sage6 server is still running and if I change my server, port and user it runs fine connecting to my Sage6 server. But for some reason nada to Sage7.