STV Import: TVExplorer for the Default STV

[ohpleaseno]

The sagemc.jar is there.

I tried the manual update and immediately upon loading TVE, it would have look like the way I set it up (I can tell because I up the font from 12 to 18), but it flashes the way I want it for one second and immediately reverts back to the old settings.

[bikesquid]

Question: My wife likes banners, I like my wife but don't like banners, is there a way to keep both of us happy?? (like have the banners show up on the left, but a series title in the default font somewhere on the episode listing side... I keep thinking it would be nice above episode listing anyway... maybe??)

Seems most everything is configurable, maybe there's a way?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by bikesquid

Question: My wife likes banners, I like my wife but don't like banners, is there a way to keep both of us happy?? (like have the banners show up on the left, but a series title in the default font somewhere on the episode listing side... I keep thinking it would be nice above episode listing anyway... maybe??)

Seems most everything is configurable, maybe there's a way?

unfortunately no... that's not an option in the current version... but a good idea for future releases (and wouldn't be that difficult to implement)....

[Skirge01]

I followed the instructions on the previous page, but I couldn't get the TVE plugin to show up in SageTV. Eventually, I figured out that these files probably needed to be on the server, not the client. I'm not sure if both need to be there or not, but that's what I did.

Now, I just need to change all the icons back to the ones I had in v6.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

I followed the instructions on the previous page, but I couldn't get the TVE plugin to show up in SageTV. Eventually, I figured out that these files probably needed to be on the server, not the client. I'm not sure if both need to be there or not, but that's what I did.

if accessing from an hdx00 then ya you need to install tve on the server. If accessing from a sagetvclient then you should only need to install tve on the client. The client might need to be restarted in order to show up...

Now, I just need to change all the icons back to the ones I had in v6.

that should be fairly simple by replacing the images in the tvexplorer\images directory with the zip from the sagemc install.

PS: sorry i didn't respond to your pm... this morning's been busy... I would have pointed you to the post on the previous page.

And an FYI: stuckless helped me get the dependencies figured out so sometime in the near future i am going to submit TVE to the repository.

[ranger]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

And an FYI: stuckless helped me get the dependencies figured out so sometime in the near future i am going to submit TVE to the repository.

Will you be updating any functionality in TVE? If so and you need a tester, I am willing to assist.

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

if accessing from an hdx00 then ya you need to install tve on the server. If accessing from a sagetvclient then you should only need to install tve on the client. The client might need to be restarted in order to show up...

Nope, this was from a client PC. Restarting both the server and the client did not help.

that should be fairly simple by replacing the images in the tvexplorer\images directory with the zip from the sagemc install.

Yep, that got most of what I wanted. I noticed two things (bugs?):

1. When moving between selections (episodes or groups), there's no "slide" animation. The highlight just disappears and reappears.
2. If you move from the group list to the episode list, the "highlight" for the group list can get stuck there. (see attachment) Easy way to reproduce is to keep going right and then highlight another group.

Not sure if anyone intends to do any further fixes for version 1, but figured I'd mention these.

PS: sorry i didn't respond to your pm... this morning's been busy... I would have pointed you to the post on the previous page.

NP... I knew I had read it, but with all the reading I was doing in preparation for the upgrade, I had difficulty finding that post again.

And an FYI: stuckless helped me get the dependencies figured out so sometime in the near future i am going to submit TVE to the repository.

Nice! So, when's v2 coming out?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by ranger

Will you be updating any functionality in TVE? If so and you need a tester, I am willing to assist.

for now it will be the same version that was posted on the previous page. I will probably spend a little bit of time to see how much work it will be to make the last sagemc version of tve to work with sage7 but no promises.

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Nope, this was from a client PC. Restarting both the server and the client did not help.

mmm weird... but its working now though right?

Yep, that got most of what I wanted. I noticed two things (bugs?):

1. When moving between selections (episodes or groups), there's no "slide" animation. The highlight just disappears and reappears.
2. If you move from the group list to the episode list, the "highlight" for the group list can get stuck there. (see attachment) Easy way to reproduce is to keep going right and then highlight another group.

Not sure if anyone intends to do any further fixes for version 1, but figured I'd mention these.

ya ive noticed those bugs too (definitely number 2... number 1 i think has to do with the new animation system in 7 and it being more or less completely incompatible and different then v6). The number 2 bug i think has to do with the tve version. This v7 port is based on toms port of tve... and its not the latest version.... so it doesnt include the last bug fixes in tve.

Nice! So, when's v2 coming out?

not nearly soon enough... my life's gotten rather busy the past 6 months so my time spent tinkering with sage has been almost non existent

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

mmm weird... but its working now though right?

Yep.

ya ive noticed those bugs too (definitely number 2... number 1 i think has to do with the new animation system in 7 and it being more or less completely incompatible and different then v6). The number 2 bug i think has to do with the tve version. This v7 port is based on toms port of tve... and its not the latest version.... so it doesnt include the last bug fixes in tve.
not nearly soon enough... my life's gotten rather busy the past 6 months so my time spent tinkering with sage has been almost non existent

Excuses, excuses. j/k, my friend. Let me know if there's anything I can do help.

[Skirge01]

Found another bug. TVE is apparently breaking the "left as back" in the recording schedule screens in SageTV v7 (both in "interleaved" and "by day").

[ohpleaseno]

Am I the only one who can't figure out how to get TVE in v7 to sort by Season/Episode. I feel like I've tried every combination of sort order and or some reason I can't get S/E to sort properly.

Also, why does Original Air Date sort by Added to the Database Date? I've done a rescan of a bunch of my imported video using Mediascrape and it shows either the day I re-imported it or 12/31/69 as the date.

Just wanted to know if this is a bug that others are experiencing as well.

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by ohpleaseno

Am I the only one who can't figure out how to get TVE in v7 to sort by Season/Episode. I feel like I've tried every combination of sort order and or some reason I can't get S/E to sort properly.

Also, why does Original Air Date sort by Added to the Database Date? I've done a rescan of a bunch of my imported video using Mediascrape and it shows either the day I re-imported it or 12/31/69 as the date.

Just wanted to know if this is a bug that others are experiencing as well.

I wasn't aware that TVE had been rewritten for SageTV 7. So I'm not sure you can consider it a bug. It was written for SageTV 6.

Gerry

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by gplasky

I wasn't aware that TVE had been rewritten for SageTV 7. So I'm not sure you can consider it a bug. It was written for SageTV 6.

Gerry

While it wasn't rewritten for v7, there is a way to get it working. I'm using it and it works pretty good.

@ ohpleaseno: Are you using a scraper for your TV shows?

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by ohpleaseno

Am I the only one who can't figure out how to get TVE in v7 to sort by Season/Episode. I feel like I've tried every combination of sort order and or some reason I can't get S/E to sort properly.

Also, why does Original Air Date sort by Added to the Database Date? I've done a rescan of a bunch of my imported video using Mediascrape and it shows either the day I re-imported it or 12/31/69 as the date.

Just wanted to know if this is a bug that others are experiencing as well.

I haven't fired up BMT in v7 in a very long time and only use TVE to display recorded TV sorted by Reversed Recording Date but iirc sean changed some of keys concerning the original air date and potentially the seaons/episode keys as well. Because of that my methods for getting that info is not working currently... i think somewhere in this thread or the sagemc tve thread there are some posts about it... Hopefully sometime in the near future i'll be able to look at a couple of these bugs and see whats going on

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Found another bug. TVE is apparently breaking the "left as back" in the recording schedule screens in SageTV v7 (both in "interleaved" and "by day").

havent noticed this but then again i haven't gone looking for it either... I'll take a look and see if i can see something...

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

havent noticed this but then again i haven't gone looking for it either... I'll take a look and see if i can see something...

NP... just pointing out what I'm finding. I want you working on v2 anyway.

[tmiranda]

To be fair I would like to warn all users of this that it's not real high on my radar screen. That might change if V2 is a long way off.

I've been following the thread but I don't have any plans to actually DO much unless a major bug is found.

[ohpleaseno]

I'm using Mediascraper for imported TV. BMT with Recorded TV works as expected. BMT for imported TV was giving me the same problem.

And I don't expect any kind of update or bug fix (I understand that the TVE for v7 port was just a stopgap), I was just making sure that I wasn't beating my head against a wall unnecessarily.

[OferL]

First i have to say TVE is still the best plugin out there and stopping it's dev was a real shame...

I've just switched to v7 (after I found that there was a way to use TVE on it).
As said above sorting via SxE doesn't work well.
But also episode names and airing date don't appear on newly imported shows.
If a show was imported on v6 then I can see it's details in the browser fine.
But if I imported it after switching to v7 I get the show name for episode title and 1-1-70 for airing date.
Looking into info all the correct data is there. Just not shown in the browser.

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by OferL

First i have to say TVE is still the bet plugin out there and stopping it's dev was a real shame...

thanks for the support... i happen to agree when it comes to tv organization (although you can say I'm biased as the original author.

TVE's development has not been stopped forever... I still have plans to write a TVE v2... Unfortunately for everyone wanting a TVE v2 soon my life has gotten busy and sage programming took a back seat. TVE v1 for v7 works good enough for my use case most of the time so I haven't had a lot of motivation to work on it.

As said above sorting via SxE doesn't work well.

can you point me to where you said this... it should be working

But also episode names and airing date don't appear on newly imported shows.
If a show was imported on v6 then I can see it's details in the browser fine.
But if I imported it after switching to v7 I get the show name for episode title and 1-1-70 for airing date.
Looking into info all the correct data is there. Just not shown in the browser.

i think all this boils down to stuckless rearranging/changing/depreciating some phoenix apis... Therefore since i have not really updated my api to the new phoenix apis things got lost in the process...

As I said it works well for my current use case (sage recorded tv only, no bmt, not really any fanart).... I have been meaning to install bmt and get fanart back (been missing it for awhile now bc i didnt want to configure it....) and SxxExx sorting going... so perhaps I'll get some time to look into these issues and maybe get a fixit/patch build out sometime this winter.