Plugin: Hide Volume Area from OSD

[pvrpenguin]

I don't use SageTV to control the volume on my main TV so I decided to hide the volume area completely from the on screen display (OSD) by making a simple STV import.

Since this has also been discussed here this import is now available as a v.7 plugin.

Version History

0.1.0

• Initial version

[QueOnda]

LOVE IT! I have one of my setups where I don't use the volume on Sagetv either. Is there a way you can make it so that the volume remains at a 100% on sagetv? I notice sometimes some of the family members adjust the volume by accident and it's less than 100%.

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

LOVE IT! I have one of my setups where I don't use the volume on Sagetv either. Is there a way you can make it so that the volume remains at a 100% on sagetv? I notice sometimes some of the family members adjust the volume by accident and it's less than 100%.

There is a way to do this in the SageTV settings .

[pvrpenguin]

Wouldn't the easiest way be to just unlink the volume command from the remote?

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by pvrpenguin

Wouldn't the easiest way be to just unlink the volume command from the remote?

That would work if you don't use a media center remote that controls the windows volume control. I do so I have to figure out something else. Is there a way you could remove the pause, play, ff, rr, etc from the bottom as well?

[Graygeek]

Thanks so much for the plugin pvrpenguin

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

Is there a way you could remove the pause, play, ff, rr, etc from the bottom as well?

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[49studebaker]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

That would work if you don't use a media center remote that controls the windows volume control. I do so I have to figure out something else. Is there a way you could remove the pause, play, ff, rr, etc from the bottom as well?

Does your media center remote have a reprogrammable volume button? If so, you could reprogram it to change the volume on your tv or audio receiver. That is what I do with my MCE remote.

You can reprogram the Volume and TV power buttons by doing this:
* Aim MCE remote at your AV remote (2/3" apart)
* Press & hold "DVD Menu" + "OK" on MCE remote until lights go off
* press Vol- on the MCE remote (lights should blink once)
* Press and hold Vol- on the AV remote until lights on MCE lights blink twice (if it blinks 4 times there was a problem)
* Do the same procedure for Vol+

http://www.ryansfindings.com/node/10

[david1234]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

LOVE IT! I have one of my setups where I don't use the volume on Sagetv either. Is there a way you can make it so that the volume remains at a 100% on sagetv? I notice sometimes some of the family members adjust the volume by accident and it's less than 100%.

Worse than that, in 6.x, there's a bug where occasionally, Sagetv sets the volume to "MUTE".

If it weren't for that, I could throw away the extender remote. I hate that remote, but it's the only thing I have with a button for un-muting sage.

[electronics4lif]

Originally Posted by david1234

Worse than that, in 6.x, there's a bug where occasionally, Sagetv sets the volume to "MUTE".

If it weren't for that, I could throw away the extender remote. I hate that remote, but it's the only thing I have with a button for un-muting sage.

If v7 has this bug, I COMPLETELY agree that it would be great to be able 'disable' volume control of sage. My wife HATES when she is just changing channels and the darn box mutes.

[craigap]

I've never had a mute issue while on my extender; but coincidentally, today I had my server mute on me. I had to disable this import to set the volume back up, because I don't have a volume button linked to my remote for Sage-only to my AVR. I may have to add some volume buttons to my harmony in case it happens again, because I hate looking at that volume slider. Unfortunately, I didn't get the bug log though. This was on beta 11.

Thanks for the import.

[pvrpenguin]

You should still be able to control Sage volume with this plugin enabled. You just won't get any visual feedback from the OSD.

[peternm22]

I don’t suppose someone still has a copy of this plugin? The link in the plugin area is dead now.

[peternm22]

I managed to recreate this plugin in Studio. I've attached a copy of it to this post. It can be manually imported to SageTV by going to Detailed Setup > Advanced > Import UI Modification

[pvrpenguin]

I am the original creator of the plugin and have posted the code on GitHub.

https://github.com/arumsey/sagetv-remove-volume-area

Enjoy!

[peternm22]

Thanks for that

I managed to recreate it on my own. The biggest problem I had was figuring out how to export the STVi (Studio doesn't like it when you have plugins that are active).