Plugin:: Sage My Movies for Sagetv

[George M]

Well I went ahead and sent it now. One question though. The sagetv0.txt is and old file. Should it be that way or should there be a newer one? The SageMyMovies.log is as of today.

[jptheripper]

Originally Posted by sabre

Thanks JP, I will give this a shot. Not home now, but is that a custom setting under the views?

Yes i believe its called background fade. It just prevents the background from loading for a longer period, so if you are scrolling and it is a tad slower it isnt constantly trying to load backgrounds.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by jptheripper

Yes i believe its called background fade. It just prevents the background from loading for a longer period, so if you are scrolling and it is a tad slower it isnt constantly trying to load backgrounds.

Background fade in delay

[razrsharpe]

Originally Posted by George M

The sagetv0.txt is and old file. Should it be that way or should there be a newer one?.

It should be as of today... an old one probably means you don't have sage debug logging turned on. You need to turn it on and then restart the service (the sage FAQ has instructions if you don't know how to enable it).

[mkanet]

I am having the same exact issue. I finally upgraded to sageTV 7. I installed some plugins; including this one (version 1.1.01 beta).

I didnt see server or client options when installing as shown in the walkthrough. I only had the basic install option. )

My PC hosts both sageTV media center 7 and the client I'm trying to get MyMovies to work.

I dont see a "collections manager" anywhere. However, I do see the SageMyMovies API. I have no idea what's preventing the MyMovies plugin from working; but, I swear, tried following the instructions as best as I could. I'm looking forward to trying the plugin!

Sincerely,
Michael

Originally Posted by Quazeye

Nice job Plucky!

I have installed but when I try to go to MyMovies I get an SQL Connection Error that says The connection to the host null, named instance mymovies has failed. Error: "java.net.UnknownHostException:null". Verify the server and instance names, check that no firewall is blocking UDP traffic to port 1434, and for SQL Server 2005 or later verify that the SQL Server Browser Service is running on the host.

I don't have the firewall on. I am not sure what else to do to fix this. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Quaz

[tonysathre]

Originally Posted by mkanet

I am having the same exact issue. I finally upgraded to sageTV 7. I installed some plugins; including this one (version 1.1.01 beta).

I didnt see server or client options when installing as shown in the walkthrough. I only had the basic install option. )

My PC hosts both sageTV media center 7 and the client I'm trying to get MyMovies to work.

I dont see a "collections manager" anywhere. However, I do see the SageMyMovies API. I have no idea what's preventing the MyMovies plugin from working; but, I swear, tried following the instructions as best as I could. I'm looking forward to trying the plugin!

Sincerely,
Michael

You have to install the MyMovies package first, and then import all your movies into it. That is the Collection Manager.
http://www.mymovies.dk/download.aspx

[mkanet]

Thanks! Now it makes sense. I'm guessing eventually the Collection Manager will be loaded as a dependency plugin automatically.

Originally Posted by tonysathre

You have to install the MyMovies package first, and then import all your movies into it. That is the Collection Manager.
http://www.mymovies.dk/download.aspx

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by mkanet

Thanks! Now it makes sense. I'm guessing eventually the Collection Manager will be loaded as a dependency plugin automatically.

No it is a separate outside of sage windows installer that I have not way of running and installing from within sage. As per the wiki it is a dependency that is required.

# MyMovies Collection Manager for Windows

* Normal Windows or Windows Server

http://www.mymovies.dk/download/coll...anagement.aspx

* Windows Home Server Version

http://www.mymovies.dk/download/wind...me-server.aspx

Also as per the detail of the plugin in caps is states this must be installed.

[Quazeye]

Hi again,

I left everything for the night and I am still not getting any posters. I also don't even have a folder called Posters in C:\ProgramData\My Movies\FileStorage so it hasn't created that folder even. I have tried to restart the service and it still isn't working. Any idea why?

Thanks,
Quaz

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Quazeye

Hi again,

I left everything for the night and I am still not getting any posters. I also don't even have a folder called Posters in C:\ProgramData\My Movies\FileStorage so it hasn't created that folder even. I have tried to restart the service and it still isn't working. Any idea why?

Thanks,
Quaz

Try going in the UI to fanart-->>find missing fanart and see if that creates the folder.

[soulprops77]

Now that we have a sub-forum, maybe it would be easier to let this thread die down and create separate threads for individual issues/comments/ideas.

It's becoming difficult to sort through everything. . .

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by soulprops77

Now that we have a sub-forum, maybe it would be easier to let this thread die down and create separate threads for individual issues/comments/ideas.

It's becoming difficult to sort through everything. . .

Agreed now that I have my own subforum fell free to post new post instead of posting to this one.

(That doesn't excuse anyone from reading the wiki or trying to search first!)

[Quazeye]

Hi Plucky,

I did the search for missing fanart and it did create the Posters folder and it has 1 poster in it now.

I also looked at the logs and it shows this for all my movies (over 1000)

TRACE - Background Existed for:Hulk Vs Wolverine
TRACE - Poster Did exist and skipped=Hulk Vs Wolverine

I looked in the Backdrops directory and it shows only 146 backdrops. Also just looked again and the Posters is still at 1

Thanks,
Quaz

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Quazeye

Hi Plucky,

I did the search for missing fanart and it did create the Posters folder and it has 1 poster in it now.

I also looked at the logs and it shows this for all my movies (over 1000)

TRACE - Background Existed for:Hulk Vs Wolverine
TRACE - Poster Did exist and skipped=Hulk Vs Wolverine

I looked in the Backdrops directory and it shows only 146 backdrops. Also just looked again and the Posters is still at 1

Thanks,
Quaz

Send me that log please.

[Quazeye]

Ok..sent

[QueOnda]

Hi PluckyHD,

did you ever figure out the issue with the HD200/100 with the local issue. aka http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...5&postcount=36

[jptheripper]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

Hi PluckyHD,

did you ever figure out the issue with the HD200/100 with the local issue. aka http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...5&postcount=36

please log a bug at http://code.google.com/p/sagemediamanager/ if you havent

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

Hi PluckyHD,

did you ever figure out the issue with the HD200/100 with the local issue. aka http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...5&postcount=36

Originally Posted by jptheripper

please log a bug at http://code.google.com/p/sagemediamanager/ if you havent

Correct I forgot about it to be honest. Google code logged issues help me to remember as I always check those off when done and have a current list of all open issues. If you could log it please so I don't forget to check it.

[davephan]

I have My Movies working again. Thanks for your help PluckyHD!

I took an image with Ghost and Acronis, so I can easy recover SageTV and My Movies back to a working state. The trick to avoid the misleading SQL errors and the 'blank wall' is to install the Movie Management component first, then import the video directory in Movie Management, then install the SMM UI in SageTV.

About 80% of my DVDs now have artwork in the movie wall, so I will try adding artwork again.

I still would like a way to make the font smaller on the List View. There is a lot of screen space on my 60 and 73 inch TVs for smaller fonts and more text to fit in the text windows on the screen.

Dave

[mkanet]

Getting Mymovies up and running was easy and quick! However, when I tried to add my movies folder (which contains several hundred original quality Bluray movies in MKV format), I keep getting the error message that there's a 10 movie limit per folder for automatic folder monitoring; suggesting to move movie file into it's own folder (or something to that affect). The only movies I have that have their own folders are full disc rips (which I only have a couple of). I looked for a different way to manually scan the movies folder (without using automatic folder monitoring).. but couldnt figure how to do that. I'm sure there's a simple of way getting this to work without having to create hundreds of folders and moving each MKV into it's own folder. I'm very curious to see what My Movies looks like fully populated with all my movies and music videos.

Since I use Genre view; I have a couple of visual enhancement suggestions (pardon me if it already can be done now, but I couldnt figure out how to do it):

It would be great to be able to list the Genre view horizontally as well as vertically (since more Genre's/categories can fit on the screen horizontally at once than vertically on modern displays). I tried looking under customize view; but didnt see an option to toggle vertical/horizontal. If there's no way to do it now, maybe you would consider adding this option.

It would also be cool IMO if the Genre view could use Genre icons as an option; being able to use the custom ones from SageMC would be nice. Currently, the Genre view is monotone; which the genre icons may liven things up a bit.

Lastly, any chance you would consider moving My Movies related files (mymovies-back.jpg, mymovies-front.jpg, mymovies.xml, etc) into a separate user-defined folder/repository? Currently, these files get mixed in together with the movie media file itself; which can make things kind of messy.

Thanks for your time and effort,
M