Detecting UIContext Type?

[broconne]

Is there a way to detect the UIContext type? For example to detect if a certain active UI context is an HD200 or HD300?

[PLUCKYHD]

Yup look under Global with sagex

for example extender

String UIContext = sagex.api.Global.GetUIContextName();
sagex.api.global.IsRemoteUI(UIContext)&&!sagex.api.global.IsServerUI(UIConftext)

That is all of the top of my head but should be right

There is also a IsClient call.

For the extender you might need to use the sagex method for creating a new uicontext from the current context name. Or at least I did to get reliable results for extenders

cheers

[PLUCKYHD]

Holy crap I just noticed the


IsEmbeddedSystem()

call I never noticed that so there is a better way to get extender

I have read that probably 100 times don't know how I missed it.

[broconne]

Plucky -
Thanks. But that seems to only tell me if it is an extender, client or server. I am trying to discern if a specific UI Context is an HD100, HD200 or HD300? Is there a way to tell if an embedded context is a particular type of extender?

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by broconne

... to detect if a certain active UI context is an HD200 or HD300?

Look in the default SageTV7 STV for its use of GetRemoteUIType().

Then, under it, see the LocalizeString("HD_Media_Player") branch. For now, there is no direct HD200 vs HD300 API call, see the code below that branch where it calls GetAudioOutputOptions() & uses the result to determine whether it is an HD200 or HD300.

- Andy

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by broconne

Plucky -
Thanks. But that seems to only tell me if it is an extender, client or server. I am trying to discern if a specific UI Context is an HD100, HD200 or HD300? Is there a way to tell if an embedded context is a particular type of extender?

That's what I get for skimming didn't see you wanted the type sorry Andy already answered you anyhow. Oh well I found that call I somehow missed 100 times I swear it must be new or I am blind

[broconne]

Cool - Thanks Opus and Plucky!

[Fonceur]

Before I start reinventing the wheel by following Opus4 suggestion, I don't suppose you have some java code snippet doing that?

[jreichen]

This is code from nielm's web server that's a little old, but has most of the checks. It also has poweroff code for extenders but it's not 100%.

http://sageplugins.cvs.sourceforge.n...va?view=markup

[Fonceur]

So I have tried using the code used in NielM web server, but I have someone running the latest SageTV beta where his HD200 is reporting IsRemoteUI() as false, and GetAudioOutputOptions() == null (using the latest GKusnick Studio Tools for SageTV V7)... Anyone else seeing that?

[GKusnick]

As far as I can tell those functions are working properly on my HD300.

When you say "the latest Sage" and "the latest ToolsLib", have you actually verified this? Or are you just taking his word for it that as far he knows, whatever version he has is the latest? (This is why it's always best to insist on actual version numbers in bug reports.)

[Fonceur]

I did have access to the sagetv_0.txt to confirm the latest versions being used...

Upon further investigations, I think that all is good. It's just that he was connecting within seconds of a SageTV restart, with the associated reboot of the extender still in progress, and wondering why commands were not working... Had he actually been in front of the extender with the TV/monitor opened, he probably would have realized how silly it was to complain about the power button not working in the middle of a reboot or similar things...

[Fonceur]

So here is a code snippet (using GKusnick Studio Tools library) doing what Opus4 suggested:

enum ClientType {None, Local, MVP, HD100, HD200, HD300, Placeshifter};
ClientType clientType = ClientType.None;
API sageApi = new API(uiContext);
Global global = sageApi.Global;
Utility utility = new Utility(sageApi);

if (global.GetRemoteUIType().equalsIgnoreCase(utility.LocalizeString("Local")))
	clientType = ClientType.Local;
else if (global.GetRemoteUIType().equalsIgnoreCase(utility.LocalizeString("Placeshifter")))
	clientType = ClientType.Placeshifter;
else if (global.GetRemoteUIType().equalsIgnoreCase(utility.LocalizeString("SD Media Extender")))
	clientType = ClientType.MVP;
else if (global.GetRemoteUIType().equalsIgnoreCase(utility.LocalizeString("HD Media Extender")))
	clientType = ClientType.HD100;
else if (global.GetRemoteUIType().equalsIgnoreCase(utility.LocalizeString("HD Media Player"))){
	clientType = ClientType.HD300;
	for (String option : configuration.GetAudioOutputOptions()){
		if (option.equalsIgnoreCase("HDMIHBR")){
			clientType = ClientType.HD200;
			break;
		}
	}
}