STV Import: STVi importer

[roxy99]

I'm new to the plugin scence. So what's this one about?

Supposing last week I imported the STVI for comskip and now today I want to add the IMDB lookup STVI plugin. I am not allowed to simply import the new STVI? I first must load my SageTV3 default interface, then one at a time re-import my comskip STVI then the IMDB lookup.

This automates this process, is that correct?

[jbuszkie]

Originally Posted by roxy99

I'm new to the plugin scence. So what's this one about?

Supposing last week I imported the STVI for comskip and now today I want to add the IMDB lookup STVI plugin. I am not allowed to simply import the new STVI? I first must load my SageTV3 default interface, then one at a time re-import my comskip STVI then the IMDB lookup.

This automates this process, is that correct?

If you are importing a new STVi then most of the time you can just import the new one. When you are reimporting.. that's a different story.

Some of the plugins work best from a *fresh* STV when reimporting. If someone creates a new version of a plugin this will help *automate* the reimporting of all your STVi's This is also helpful in the beta stage of sage when they release new STV's with each beta release. This help you to reimport all your STVi's in to the new beta STV's

Jim

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by nielm

When I use this with a bunch of my imports, it leaves a 'ghost' main menu in my imported STV...

If I import the STVI's manually, I don't get a 'ghost' main menu.

If I edit the importer_0_3.stvi, remove the main menu, save, and then use it to import a bunch of my imports, I also don't get a 'ghost' main menu...

I guess some of the cleanup code is getting missed after doing so many imports...
My plugins.cfg:

CpuMotherBoardInfo_import.stvi
IntelligentSuggestions.stvi
MultiFunctionStop_import.stvi
autoaspect_import.stvi
dynamic_menu_import.stvi
imdb_search_import.stvi
infopopup_import.stvi
multispeed_skip_import.stvi
recpadding_import.stvi
rssnews_import.stvi

I'll check that out as soon as I get some time...

Dirk

[hemicuda]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Just list the filenames of those plugins you want to import into the configuration file 'plugins.cfg', and import the importer STVi as usual.
Dirk

so if I read the instructions correctly I rename importer_0_3.xml to importer_0_3.stvi; start from SageTV3.xml; and then import the stvi?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by hemicuda

so if I read the instructions correctly I rename importer_0_3.xml to importer_0_3.stvi; start from SageTV3.xml; and then import the stvi?

Yep, exactly...

Dirk

[hemicuda]

ok, did all that and got a black sage window w/ a frozen logo and sagetv3-10.xml when i only had 9 imports. did i possibly do something wrong? one-at-a-time importing works obviously.

[nielm]

this is the same bug I reported earlier. If you feel capable with Studio you can fix this by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-F12, finding the Main Menu that has no children delete it, then file-save

You can do the same in the importer_0_3.stvi to fix it for future bulk imports

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by nielm

You can do the same in the importer_0_3.stvi to fix it for future bulk imports

Hi Niel,

I intended to download all the STVis in your list to reproduce the problem. Are you saying that if I just update the dowload package with an importer STVi which has been saved without the Main menu widget, it would fix the problem for now too ?

Dirk

[nielm]

Originally Posted by flachbar

Hi Niel,

I intended to download all the STVis in your list to reproduce the problem. Are you saying that if I just update the dowload package with an importer STVi which has been saved without the Main menu widget, it would fix the problem for now too ?

Dirk

I believe so: Thats what I am doing at the moment: I have an edited importer_0_3.stvi with no main menu, and everything bulk-imports fine!

For debugging, I think the critical import may be my dynamic menu -- because that one renames the original main menu, and imports it's own.. But if the importer imports it's own 'ghost' main menu first, it will take preference over mine!

[hemicuda]

never played w/ Studio. don't really have the time to comb through it yet. I may just leave the dynamic import out of the list and manually import it last if you think that would work.

Edit: worked 90%. when I loaded the dynamic menus last it broke the sage UI. oh well... manual import of 9 isn't a big deal. i can wait til the more-learned programmers get it ironed out

[owilsky]

I just updated to SageTV 6.0.16RC1 and this import doesn't work for me now. With 6.0.15 it did work. Anything broken?
I tried to delete the main menu without any nodes but that did not help.

Oliver

[farfromuman]

nielm>
I removed the Main Menu in the importer stvi and now it works, Thanks


hemicuda>
I am importing 8 imports but the stv file goes up to -9, it looks like the importer itself counts as the first one.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by nielm

I believe so: Thats what I am doing at the moment: I have an edited importer_0_3.stvi with no main menu, and everything bulk-imports fine!

For debugging, I think the critical import may be my dynamic menu -- because that one renames the original main menu, and imports it's own.. But if the importer imports it's own 'ghost' main menu first, it will take preference over mine!

If I have the dynamic menu as the first import in the plugins.cfg, I have no problem.

John

[hemicuda]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

If I have the dynamic menu as the first import in the plugins.cfg, I have no problem.

John

that's where I put it on mine. i can have any sequence of imports, but dynamc menus is the one that breaks it.

[owilsky]

Originally Posted by hemicuda

that's where I put it on mine. i can have any sequence of imports, but dynamc menus is the one that breaks it.

I also have it on first position and no luck. Will try later if it works without dynamic menues...

[dblaine2]

Same thing happens to me if I try to use the importer to import the dynamic menus plugin (doesn't matter what order). Any chance of someone posting a modified importer.stvi without the main menu?

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by dblaine2

Same thing happens to me if I try to use the importer to import the dynamic menus plugin (doesn't matter what order). Any chance of someone posting a modified importer.stvi without the main menu?

Here's the STVi with the main menu removed, until I'll find time to check out what the problem with the dynamic menus is ...

Dirk

[owilsky]

I think this is not a problem of the importer.stvi but with the dynamic menu stvi itself.

I was also having difficulties in importing dynamic menus manually as my first import.
It worked fine if I import dynamic menus as my last import (manually).
Haven't tried to import it as last import with the importer though.

[dblaine2]

Originally Posted by owilsky

I think this is not a problem of the importer.stvi but with the dynamic menu stvi itself.

I was also having difficulties in importing dynamic menus manually as my first import.
It worked fine if I import dynamic menus as my last import (manually).
Haven't tried to import it as last import with the importer though.

I just tried with the importer that doesn't contain the main menu and it worked like a charm. I couldn't do that before I had to manually import the DCMM.

[nyplayer]

This doesn't appear to be working with 6.2.10. I tried importing like I always did prior to 6.2.10 but the imports are not being imported.


Thanks