Android MiniClient v1.3.0

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by Tiki

In nyplayer’s log above I noticed there were a lot of error messages related to displaying channel logos. I don’t use Android mini client, but coincidentally I noticed that Schedules Direct has been having problems displaying channel logos lately on my regular Sage Client for Windows. It doesn’t cause any freezes for me, just missing logos in the guide.

This was a problem a month or two ago, but only affected local channels. SD fixed the issue and all seemed OK, but this week I noticed it is back and now affects most channels in my guide. This is just a guess, but perhaps the mini-client chokes when it encounters this problem with missing logos?

I agree ... but it is time to fully shutdown my SageServer ... I am sure there will be more failures in the future as it is no longer supported ... with ATSC 3.0 coming ... i foresee more problems.

[sic0048]

I'm totally rewireing my central wiring closet - after years of letting it get out of control. So while my network and SageTV server are up, my cable card tuners are offline. However I can still use the Shield to access the Sage server and view recordings on my server.

I also have a full time VPN tunnel to my parents house and I can access their Sage server and view live content just fine using the Shield. So whatever issues my be affecting people, it hasn't hit my system yet.

I actually just upgraded my SageTV server to Windows 10 yesterday as part of this "cleanup".

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by sic0048

I'm totally rewireing my central wiring closet - after years of letting it get out of control. So while my network and SageTV server are up, my cable card tuners are offline. However I can still use the Shield to access the Sage server and view recordings on my server.

I also have a full time VPN tunnel to my parents house and I can access their Sage server and view live content just fine using the Shield. So whatever issues my be affecting people, it hasn't hit my system yet.

I actually just upgraded my SageTV server to Windows 10 yesterday as part of this "cleanup".

Recordings play ... the problem is when you go into the guide and scroll through it or try and play livetv.

[crarbo1]

I had missing logos in the guide data too. I noticed that the guide would lock up when I was scrolling just as I was going to view the missing logo in the guide. I found the missing logos I had and put them in the ChannelLogos folder on my server and then stopped and started the SageTV service and now everything works fine with the guide now.

Not sure if this is fixed for good or not but I wanted to let they group know what seemingly solved my issue.

[toricred]

Where did you get the logos? I don't have any and I'm not certain where they go anymore.

EDIT:

Never mind, I found them. That fixed it for me as well.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by toricred

Where did you get the logos? I don't have any and I'm not certain where they go anymore.

EDIT:

Never mind, I found them. That fixed it for me as well.

Where did yo get the logos and I wonder is there a way to just disable them in sagetv

[toricred]

Here's where I got them https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Catego..._United_States . I'd really prefer it if we could just disable them as that was a lot of trouble.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by toricred

Here's where I got them https://logos.fandom.com/wiki/Catego..._United_States . I'd really prefer it if we could just disable them as that was a lot of trouble.

Too much trouble if a missing logo can kill SAGETV MiniClient there should be a way to disable them.

[Telecore]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Too much trouble if a missing logo can kill SAGETV MiniClient there should be a way to disable them.

Agreed. I've started a trial of youtubetv, but am intrigued by the fix

Can someone elaborate on the fix procedure?

I believe we have to put logo files into the ..\SageTV\ChannelLogos folder -
but can they be in .PNG format?

Files have to be named according to the lineup channel names in sage.properties, right? for example in my lineup, the AMC logo would be called AMCHD.PNG

The last time I put custom logos in SageTV was a long time ago - I have a lot of logo files from 2010, but they are in .JPG format with the naming as described above.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by Telecore

Agreed. I've started a trial of youtubetv, but am intrigued by the fix

Can someone elaborate on the fix procedure?

I believe we have to put logo files into the ..\SageTV\ChannelLogos folder -
but can they be in .PNG format?

Files have to be named according to the lineup channel names in sage.properties, right? for example in my lineup, the AMC logo would be called AMCHD.PNG

The last time I put custom logos in SageTV was a long time ago - I have a lot of logo files from 2010, but they are in .JPG format with the naming as described above.

I do not have even 1 channel logo in my guide and close to 300 channels ...

[wayner]

Originally Posted by Telecore

Agreed. I've started a trial of youtubetv, but am intrigued by the fix

Can someone elaborate on the fix procedure?

I believe we have to put logo files into the ..\SageTV\ChannelLogos folder -
but can they be in .PNG format?

Once upon a time you did have to provide your own channel logos, presuming that you wanted them. But then they started to be pulled automatically, I believe this was related to the guide data that was originally from SageTV's own process and later from Schedules Direct.

[Telecore]

Last night, I was able to fix the problem by downloading missing logos for channels or removing them from the guide. This morning, my father reported that SageTV is now working at his house, but I did not yet download channel logos for his server, so apparently something happened (probably with Schedules Direct) - has anyone else noticed that this problem is now fixed?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by Telecore

Last night, I was able to fix the problem by downloading missing logos for channels or removing them from the guide. This morning, my father reported that SageTV is now working at his house, but I did not yet download channel logos for his server, so apparently something happened (probably with Schedules Direct) - has anyone else noticed that this problem is now fixed?

Yes I did a test with a clean wiz.bin and it loaded the guide data with all the logos ... I guess that if you wait long enough for all days to be refreshed with new guide data it will fix itself. I am so glad it is fixed as SageTV is the only DVR app that if you hit record it records from when you started watching when watching liveTV... All others start recording from the point you hit record.


This fixed it for me ...

Shutdown sagetv
Moved out the wiz.bin and wiz.bak to a temporary folder.
Started up sagetv .... waited for guide data to populate took a while.
Shutdown SageTV
Copied over the original wiz.bin and wiz.bak
Started up SageTV all is great.

[deanm]

Originally Posted by Telecore

So apparently something happened (probably with Schedules Direct) - has anyone else noticed that this problem is now fixed?

In an application I have that logs changes to Schedules Direct in STV they have changed the URLs where logos are downloaded from. (Seem to remember this was mention somewhere on the forums on here). But this change has happened over a few days and might be the cause of the errors. For example the following is the URLs for Sky1HD.

Old URL

https://s3.amazonaws.com/schedulesdi...1_ll_h3_aa.png

New URL

https://schedulesdirect-api20141201....1_ll_h3_aa.png

You will notice the old URL has an “Access Denied” error. The URL used to work without problems. Not sure if this is a Schedules Direct plug-in error not picking up the changes and not sure how this would effect Android Client. Unless the Android Client try’s to directly download the logos?

Dean

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by deanm

Not sure if this is a Schedules Direct plug-in error not picking up the changes and not sure how this would effect Android Client. Unless the Android Client try’s to directly download the logos?

Dean

The miniclient does not directly download images, except via APIs to the sagetv server. Now, if say, the code that downloads icons stored "abc.png" as an xml error, and then sagetv abc.png to the miniclient telling it that it is an image (when it is not), then likely the miniclient could blow up.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by stuckless

The miniclient does not directly download images, except via APIs to the sagetv server. Now, if say, the code that downloads icons stored "abc.png" as an xml error, and then sagetv abc.png to the miniclient telling it that it is an image (when it is not), then likely the miniclient could blow up.

Recreating the guide fixed it ... the new urls were created in the GeneratedThumbnails folder... So everything is working. I also downloaded MiniClient 1.40 and sideloaded on my FireTV devices it has more options.

here is a sample ....

url-https3a2f2fschedulesdirect2dapi201412012es32eus2deast2d12eamazonaws2ecom2fassets2fstationLogos2fs110695fll5fh35fad2epng

[jpwegas]

Originally Posted by stuckless

The miniclient does not directly download images, except via APIs to the sagetv server. Now, if say, the code that downloads icons stored "abc.png" as an xml error, and then sagetv abc.png to the miniclient telling it that it is an image (when it is not), then likely the miniclient could blow up.

I am not experiencing this problem (I use HD300s), but I do have a number of .png files in GeneratedThumbnails that are empty (size 0). Would a zero length file also likely cause problems for the miniclient?

--John

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by jpwegas

I am not experiencing this problem (I use HD300s), but I do have a number of .png files in GeneratedThumbnails that are empty (size 0). Would a zero length file also likely cause problems for the miniclient?

--John

I can't say for sure... but my guess is that a 0 size png would cause an issue. I haven't looked at the code in a very long time, but since sagetv is sending the client the files to show, it's likely that there isn't a lot of error checking around the validity of the files.

[jvl711]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

I guess this is the END of SageTV as I run exclusively mini Clients.

Sat 4/25 7:10:48.427 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] ERROR: MiniUIClient receiver timed out waiting for response from the MiniClient!
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.427 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] MiniUI client error13:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.427 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.427 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.util.Vector.remove(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8173)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getIntReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8178)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.prepImageMini(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:5490)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.createNativeImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3041)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MetaImage.getNativeImage(MetaImage.java:1857)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.preloadImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3657)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.BGResourceLoader.run(BGResourceLoader.java:172)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.428 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s28711_ll_h3_ab.png width=16 height=16 ptr=-1
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] ERROR: MiniUIClient receiver timed out waiting for response from the MiniClient!
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] MiniUI client error13:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.util.Vector.remove(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8173)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getIntReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8178)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.prepImageMini(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:5490)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.429 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.createNativeImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3041)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MetaImage.getNativeImage(MetaImage.java:1857)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.preloadImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3657)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.BGResourceLoader.run(BGResourceLoader.java:172)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s28708_ll_h3_ab.png width=16 height=16 ptr=-1
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] ERROR: MiniUIClient receiver timed out waiting for response from the MiniClient!
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] MiniUI client error13:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.430 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.util.Vector.remove(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8173)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getIntReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8178)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.prepImageMini(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:5490)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.createNativeImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3041)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MetaImage.getNativeImage(MetaImage.java:1857)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.preloadImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3657)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.BGResourceLoader.run(BGResourceLoader.java:172)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s97051_ll_h3_aa.png width=16 height=16 ptr=-1
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] ERROR: MiniUIClient receiver timed out waiting for response from the MiniClient!
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] MiniUI client error13:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.431 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.util.Vector.remove(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8173)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getIntReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8178)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.prepImageMini(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:5490)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.createNativeImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3041)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MetaImage.getNativeImage(MetaImage.java:1857)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.preloadImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3657)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.BGResourceLoader.run(BGResourceLoader.java:172)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s104950_ll_h3_aa.png width=16 height=16 ptr=-1
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] ERROR: MiniUIClient receiver timed out waiting for response from the MiniClient!
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.432 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] MiniUI client error13:java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: Array index out of range: 0
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.util.Vector.remove(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8173)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer$MiniUIClientReceiver.getIntReply(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:8178)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.prepImageMini(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:5490)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.createNativeImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3041)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MetaImage.getNativeImage(MetaImage.java:1857)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.MiniClientSageRenderer.preloadImage(MiniClientSageRenderer.java:3657)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] sage.BGResourceLoader.run(BGResourceLoader.java:172)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.433 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s70436_ll_h3_ab.png width=16 height=16 ptr=-1
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.434 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s28711_ll_h3_ab.png width=16 height=16 ptr=58
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.525 [BGLoader2-4c4c544d494b@f2e682c] Allocated image-4 for https://schedulesdirect-api20141201.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/assets/stationLogos/s28708_ll_h3_ab.png width=16 height=16 ptr=1536744499
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.577 [FinalRender-4c4c544d494b@33309e0a] Terminating the BGResourceLoader for the rendering engine
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.577 [FinalRender-4c4c544d494b@33309e0a] deinitMini()
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.578 [MiniUIClientReceiver@73bc91b2] Exception in the MiniUIClientReceiver of: java.nio.channels.AsynchronousCloseException
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.595 [MiniUIServer@214bf664] Dropping old MiniPlayer connection because it's old from:4c4c544d494b
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.596 [MiniUIServer@214bf664] MiniUI got connection from java.nio.channels.SocketChannel[connected local=/10.0.0.2:31099 remote=/10.0.0.179:57050]
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.604 [MiniUIServer@214bf664] MiniUI got connection from java.nio.channels.SocketChannel[connected local=/10.0.0.2:31099 remote=/10.0.0.179:57052]
Sat 4/25 7:10:48.605 [MiniUIServerConnection@4759d34d] MiniPlayer is adding to its map:4c4c544d494b
Sat 4/25 7:10:50.302 [KillUIMgr@176868fa] Killed RootPanel
Sat 4/25 7:10:50.302 [KillUIMgr@176868fa] Saving properties file to clients\4c4c544d494b.properties
Sat 4/25 7:10:50.310 [KillUIMgr@176868fa] Done writing out the data to the properties file
Sat 4/25 7:10:50.310 [KillUIMgr@176868fa] Disposed Window
Sat 4/25 7:10:51.928 [Fork-OPUS4A-217436@7479e8d8] ENDING background channel logo preloader thread, ID = 0.8327743345321823

You would not happen to have the corresponding Android Mini Client log for this? That would be helpful to try and figure out what is going on.

I remember a long time ago we had an issue with the Mini Client not displaying certain images. We determined that there was a change in the android libraries which no longer render certain files. We just re-saved the files which fixed what ever format issue there was in the file. This very well could be an easy fix.

Josh

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by jvl711

You would not happen to have the corresponding Android Mini Client log for this? That would be helpful to try and figure out what is going on.

I remember a long time ago we had an issue with the Mini Client not displaying certain images. We determined that there was a change in the android libraries which no longer render certain files. We just re-saved the files which fixed what ever format issue there was in the file. This very well could be an easy fix.

Josh

No I do not sorry.