New Features Coming Soon......

[PLUCKYHD]

Didn't want everyone to think I have forgotten about you it has been a long couple of weeks getting some features in the next build Figured I would tease with a couple of screenshots. I will leave it to you to figure out what these features are




Brief overview of user restrictions can be found here

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...71&postcount=8

pluckyhd

[tke743]

Sweet, Multione looks awesome.

[Skirge01]

Very nice! Make sure you do a spellcheck on the word "restriction" in all it's different incarnations before releasing.

[darcilicious]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

in all it's different incarnations before releasing.

I think you mean "its" ;-) ;-)

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Very nice! Make sure you do a spellcheck on the word "restriction" in all it's different incarnations before releasing.

Yeah I saw that after posting doh!!!! Now worries I am a coder not a speller that is for sure

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

I think you mean "its" ;-) ;-)

Touche'! That's been my biggest grammatical issue my entire life. My logic just won't let me change it. Outlook and Word yell at me for that nearly every time! If I'm supposed to write "Skirge's incarnations", then "it's incarnations" should also be correct... again, by my logic, not necessarily the idiots who came up with the English language and all of its (ha!) nuances.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Very nice! Make sure you do a spellcheck on the word "restriction" in all it's different incarnations before releasing.

Are you using this addin out of curiosity?

[PLUCKYHD]

Figured I would add a bit about the user restrictions. They are very dynamic and I am overall happy with the way they work. We will be getting a wiki up within the next couple of days but basically it works one of two ways

1. Folder restrictions (limit users access based on folders)
2. MPAA rating restriction (limit users access based on rating)

Every client/extender has their own separate default level of access.

How many folder or rating levels there are is 100% up to you and each level has it's own numerical password. You can unlock a higher level on any client by entering a password with a higher level access. Access is granted on the client once a password is entered until one of the following happens.

1. User relocks the client
2. Client is restarted
3. Time expires based on a timeout setting (auto reset basically)

When in use the client can only see the movies that fit under the restriction access they currently have. All movies at a higher level are automatically hidden from all aspects of the user interface (views/filters/genres/folders etc)

hopefully that covers what everyone wanted and it much better than just having to enter a password to watch a movie. I prefer hiding them from my kid completely. Folder access works great for people that don't trust mpaa ratings and have their movies separated into folders. MPAA is also a good option for people that don't have theirs organized and trust the mpaa rating (all unrateds are top level)

cheers

[jptheripper]

so so so awesome. I think i will have to explorer mymovies database for my "other" titles that i had yet to add to mymovies.

[medwynd]

Been waiting for multibox, I have a ton of these. Like the 50 disc set of Andromeda :P

I feel bad for whoever Toy Story was too violent for :P

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Are you using this addin out of curiosity?

Sorry, PLUCKYHD, but while I am following your progress intently (as well as that of Phoenix, Ortus, TVE, SageMC... among others ), I'm not running this or even SageTV v7. A few more SageTV betas down the line, I may very well upgrade. As far as your SMM goes, my issue is that I don't use MyMovies, so you know where my vote would go in your poll. I debated about voting, since I'm not currently using it. Then again, the only--well, maybe not only--people who would vote for option 1 would be those who aren't using SMM. I think that might be why the votes are mostly in favor of option 2.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

Sorry, PLUCKYHD, but while I am following your progress intently (as well as that of Phoenix, Ortus, TVE, SageMC... among others ), I'm not running this or even SageTV v7. A few more SageTV betas down the line, I may very well upgrade. As far as your SMM goes, my issue is that I don't use MyMovies, so you know where my vote would go in your poll. I debated about voting, since I'm not currently using it. Then again, the only--well, maybe not only--people who would vote for option 1 would be those who aren't using SMM. I think that might be why the votes are mostly in favor of option 2.

I think you should give mymovies a try just saying don't know until you try it

On another note anyone interested in having the menu mods locked as well? I am thinking lock them with the master password that way people can't reshow the default video menus that will have all videos and will ignore my restrictions?

[jptheripper]

That would be awesome!! (if the passwords were independent, would allow hiding the entire import folder too).

[BitBass]

Plucky, the permissions are simply awesome. Can't wait to try that out!

[brian89gp]

Very very cool.

I would say yes on the menu lock.

[matt91]

do the new user-defined tags (that Andy rolled out today) affect your thoughts on how this plugin would operate?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by matt91

do the new user-defined tags (that Andy rolled out today) affect your thoughts on how this plugin would operate?

Honestly I haven't tried them yet but not really. I like the method I am using as it is client based and the passwords really can be "user based".

I need to look at what he did and see as right now it is not sinking in fully

[jwoycheese]

Plucky-
Really like what you've done. One thought: would it be challenging to expand the lockdown for the menus that you've discussed to provide different menu options given different password levels? This may be too far afield (it's probably more on the STV level; I don't know enough about the inner workings), but here's what I want:

Level 0: full access, all menu options
Level 1: No setup (prevent accidental problems)
Level 2 (for guests, say): partial list (say, video, tv, music, maybe internet; no setup/config access). No changes to "watch." No changes to favorites.
Level 3 (for the kiddies -- mine are < 6): lock down to just pre-recorded shows (i.e., no guide, scheduling, etc.) No delete.

As with your current schema, I'd see a timer dropping to some default level (3, for example). Guests -- I'm thinking of my techno-challenged parents, who babysit on occassion and may want a non-kid show after bedtime -- could get a bit more access with a password (which, coincidentally, would prevent them from seeing certain folders...); after 2 hours (or at 6 am?), the system drops back to kid level. The wee wifey and/or I could go even deeper into the murk (hello, hidden folders).

Or am I in the completely wrong place, given that you are only looking at the movie side of things....?

jpw

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by jwoycheese

Plucky-
Really like what you've done. One thought: would it be challenging to expand the lockdown for the menus that you've discussed to provide different menu options given different password levels? This may be too far afield (it's probably more on the STV level; I don't know enough about the inner workings), but here's what I want:

Level 0: full access, all menu options
Level 1: No setup (prevent accidental problems)
Level 2 (for guests, say): partial list (say, video, tv, music, maybe internet; no setup/config access). No changes to "watch." No changes to favorites.
Level 3 (for the kiddies -- mine are < 6): lock down to just pre-recorded shows (i.e., no guide, scheduling, etc.) No delete.

As with your current schema, I'd see a timer dropping to some default level (3, for example). Guests -- I'm thinking of my techno-challenged parents, who babysit on occassion and may want a non-kid show after bedtime -- could get a bit more access with a password (which, coincidentally, would prevent them from seeing certain folders...); after 2 hours (or at 6 am?), the system drops back to kid level. The wee wifey and/or I could go even deeper into the murk (hello, hidden folders).

Or am I in the completely wrong place, given that you are only looking at the movie side of things....?

jpw

This restrictions at current only apply to SageMyMovies and are part of the smm-api. I may break them of eventually and release as a seperate addin but that is a long was off.

It does have a timeout restriction as per the wiki you can set the time it timeouts and returns to the client default.

[Quazeye]

Hi Plucky,

Any idea when the next release will be? Waiting patiently for the fix for the posters/covers issue I am having

Thanks,
Quaz