SageTV Catchup

[michaeldjcox]

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

Thought i'd try this now it looks like people are getting it working.
Plugin loaded and done its cataloging fine but i'm not getting anything showing in the "more online services".Done a no. of reboots and no luck. Any ideas.

Hi there,

Bit far away from the code at the mo but here are some thoughts:

It can take a few minutes to appear on first startup.

A labels and links property are written to SageTV/STVs/SageTV7/OnlineServices with the suffix _sagetvcatchup.

Some people who are using old Sage it might be SageTV/STVs/SageTV3/OnlineVdeos but I'm pretty sure I just ask sagetv which one is in use.

Are those files present? Does SageTV report any problem loading those files?

Michael

[michaeldjcox]

Reunited with the code.

There is a property:

onlineVideoPropertiesDir=C:\\Progra~2\\SageTV\\SageTV\\STVs\\SageTV7\\OnlineVideos

in:

SageTV/sagetvcatchup/config/sagetvcatchup.properties

Is that correct?

if not shutdown server, edit the path, start server.

Michael

[michaeldjcox]

Ah Darn it theres a bug which means the online videos prop dir and the temporary recording dir paths get muddled up

The property

recordngDir

gets replaced with the the value of the

onlineVideoPropertiesDir

property.

This will mean that temp videos will be stored there which is not ideal but they should get cleaned up.

I'll roll out another version once I see what jamesdiscos issue is

Michael

[jamesdisco]

Thanks Michael

It can take a few minutes to appear on first startup.

Been running for hours now so not that.

A labels and links property are written to SageTV/STVs/SageTV7/OnlineServices with the suffix _sagetvcatchup.

Some people who are using old Sage it might be SageTV/STVs/SageTV3/OnlineVdeos but I'm pretty sure I just ask sagetv which one is in use.

Are those files present? Does SageTV report any problem loading those files?

Pretty sure im using the newest STV, i'm not seeing like you suggest in the Sagetv7 folder. No file has been modified since 25/7/2014 so this could be the problem.

[michaeldjcox]

Originally Posted by jamesdisco

Pretty sure im using the newest STV, i'm not seeing like you suggest in the Sagetv7 folder. No file has been modified since 25/7/2014 so this could be the problem.

Can you zip and post the log file :

SageTV/sagetvcatchup/logs/sagetvcatchup.log

please

Michael

[jamesdisco]

Originally Posted by michaeldjcox

Can you zip and post the log file :

SageTV/sagetvcatchup/logs/sagetvcatchup.log

please

Michael

Here you go.

[jamesdisco]

Originally Posted by michaeldjcox

Reunited with the code.

There is a property:

onlineVideoPropertiesDir=C:\\Progra~2\\SageTV\\SageTV\\STVs\\SageTV7\\OnlineVideos

in:

SageTV/sagetvcatchup/config/sagetvcatchup.properties

Is that correct?

if not shutdown server, edit the path, start server.

Michael

Looks correct to me, screenshot attached. I've uninstalled and re-installed and still no joy.

[michaeldjcox]

Hi,

So it looks fine in the logs:

25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Publishing new catalog to SageTV
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Publishing to C:\Progra~2\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\OnlineVideos\CustomOnlineVideoLinks_sagetvcatchup.properties
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Publishing to C:\Progra~2\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\OnlineVideos\CustomOnlineVideoUIText_sagetvcatchup.properties
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Online add source : xPodcastCatchup
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Online adding source status
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Online adding source Iplayer
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.776 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Online adding source Test
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.776 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Online adding source search
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.776 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Published new catalog to SageTV
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.776 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Publishing new catalog to web server

The only thing I can think of is that this is a problem with my use of windows 8 character directory names in order to get around issue of windows commands lines and spaces in paths where quotes won't solve the problem


C:\Progra~2\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\OnlineVideos\CustomOnlineVideoLinks_sagetvcatchup.properties

should resolve to:

C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\OnlineVideos\CustomOnlineVideoLinks_sagetvcatchup.properties

But maybe it isn't - if there is another dir beginning C:\Progra...

Be worth checking those two directories in explorer they may not be the same.

in a command shell in dir C:\ your can try doing

dir

and (to see 8 char shortnames)

dir /x

and compare the dir listings.

Michael

[jamesdisco]

Some screenshots for you. I'm on win8.1

I'm not seeing the following files in that attached folder.

25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Publishing to C:\Progra~2\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\OnlineVideos\CustomOnlineVideoLinks_sagetvcatchup.properties
25-Nov-2014 15:18:48.760 [main] INFO  u.c.m.sagetv.catchup.CatchupServer - Publishing to C:\Progra~2\SageTV\SageTV\STVs\SageTV7\OnlineVideos\CustomOnlineVideoUIText_sagetvcatchup.properties

[michaeldjcox]

It looks like it has created a Progra~2 directory and put the files in there rather than putting them under "Program Files (x86)".

I guess windows 8.1 is different from other versions.

On my windows 8 laptop I notice that there are some environment variables:

ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
ProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)
ProgramW6432=C:\Program Files

I'm going to check if those will work when set in the properties e.g

onlineVideoPropertiesDir=%ProgramFiles(x86)%\\SageTV\\SageTV\\STVs\\SageTV7\\OnlineVideos

Will get back to you.

Michael

[michaeldjcox]

Nah did not work.

I'm guessing maybe windows has a setting to enable 8 char path names which could help

Otherwise I'm stuck for the moment on how to make it work everywhere.

[jamesdisco]

It looks like it has created a Progra~2 directory and put the files in there rather than putting them under "Program Files (x86)".

Moved over the files and can now see all the programs, i'm getting errors when i try to watch or record any of them. I already find it easier to look through than using the real iplayer, will be great when i can get it working.

Do i need any of the iplayer components (as attached pic) to do recordings, if so that's probably my problem.

[michaeldjcox]

It will be the same issue for the recording dir path.

My plan currently.

Rollout a release to stop recording dir being overwritten.

You can edit the online video prop and the recording dir from the plugin to remove the 8.3 directory names and replace with the long ones.

I advise you choose a recording dir with a path with no space characters in it.

The reason being that actually its only the recording dir where I need no-space path names but currently the recording dir is being overwritten by the online video property dir which does need to be a path with a space in it but have no need pass it to bloody windows that cannot understand dir paths it allows to be created

Michael

[jamesdisco]

Tried changing the recording directory but no good. (I chose E:\iplayer should this be OK)
iplayer is working fine from the web manager so must be the plugin.

[michaeldjcox]

I think you will find that the recordingDir you set probably got overridden again.

You can tell in the log file if you look for get_iplayer.cmd for your recording attempt

I have just released 1.3.6 to fix the overriding issue and some other minor issues.

I'd rather start from 1.3.6 with your issue as there were bugs confusing the issue in 1.3.5

For everyone else who picks up 0.3.6 you may need to apply your recordingDir setting if you have changed it from the default.

Michael

[jt4242]

Odd - this is the second time I've responded to a post and then it is nowhere to be seen?

Just wanted to say how great it is not to have to re-enter my recording directory and command line parameters every time I restart - thank you!!

[PeterC]

Well done, this is now working nicely for me.
Is it possible to get the radio stations with this?

Peter

[michaeldjcox]

Hi,

Got to admit I never checked that and I'm at work at the moment.

I think this radio shows are cataloged - if you got into the channels area of iplayer radio channels are listed.

And audio can be played from online services - be worth trying "WATCH"

The plugin will try and upload as a sagetv recording and I believe SageTV will not play it from the recordings menu. So "RECORD" will not work. "WATCH AND KEEP" will work but no recording will appear.

In the past I have generated video for audio files so they can be played from from recordings (in webfeedencoder). I guess that could be added if access from the recordings menu is required.

Michael

[PeterC]

Some of the radio shows are cataloged but only the ones that contain video, I am more interested in BBC 6 Music.

SageTV 7 will play radio broadcasts without video and displays a black screen when playing, although I am using a network encoder which records to .ts, if its possible to catalog all the radio shows I think SageTV 7 will play them.

[michaeldjcox]

Just out of interest what encoder is that?