STV: malore's STV for SageTV (Oct 15 update)

[Deadbolt]

I had a problem with your June 3 version...I use a 350 TV and GUI out only...if I had video running and went to Sage Recordings (with video set to play in the background) nothing showed up except for the SageTV in the upper left and teh time in the upper right. All the other menus displayed properly while overlayed against running video.

Does the June 5 version fix this?

[malore]

Background video on my menus is fixed as of this post.

[follower]

malore,
What about the ability to sort it by stars (rating)? It would be great to tape or choose to tape only the 4 star / 3 star movies.


What about be able to chose more than 2 categories... HORROR / MOVIES / 3 STARS?


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[malore]

Sorting by star rating can't be easily done well.

I might expand on filtering later, but there doesn't seem to much interest in the changes I already made.

[follower]

I looked at your changes last night. It was a great idea to add the stars to the list on the right pane. When looking for things to "tape" in the guides is where it makes sense. I have a hundred movies to look through and if they were sorted by stars you could easily record the good movies. Maybe this should be an option in favorites but still needs to have mulitiple criteria (category = movies and stars > 3 and category = "Horror" and year > 1989 and ...

I appreciate all the work you have done thus far and makes Sage so much more enjoyable!


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[follower]

As far as the interest in your latest changes, the customization is perfect...

[malore]

Jun 9 Update

Added "Series Premieres & Specials" menu.



enjoy,
malore

[follower]

Great! I will install it when I get home... Looks Great!


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[Opus4]

I haven't had time to download & check out the last couple updates the way I normally would...

- Andy

[Opus4]

Just so you know... the link to the zip file in step 1 of the Installation instructions points to a local C: file; the link at the top of teh page works, though.

- Andy

[malore]

No, it doesn't

That's what I get for using a HTML editor instead of just a text editor like I normally do.

[kny3twalker]

what about can you add pay per view and sports package listings to the guide?

[Opus4]

Oh... you're right. I just checked it again and I see the link is correct after all. Don't know what came over me...

- Andy

[Opus4]

I've got it all set up now... that "Series Premieres & Specials" menu is interesting. Since this is rerun season, there isn't a whole lot there, of course. I'm curious -- is it only going to show the very first episode of a series? At first, I thought it would find the start of a new season, but it looks like it checks for a ShowID ending in 0001. If it only sees the first episode of a new series, I'm not sure how much I would use it.

Also, what is the criteria for a show to be a 'special'? It might be useful to have it be able to show just the specials -- currently it looks like it shows either "premieres" or "premieres & specials".

Finally, I don't know what the limits are in Studio, but is it possible to have the left pane of your recording schedule group by date? (I don't think there was a response to that question before.) As I mentioned previously, that would allow sorting the upcoming schedule by each day.

- Andy

[malore]

Originally posted by kny3twalker
what about can you add pay per view and sports package listings to the guide?

The guide should show listings for all the data that it has, if you're not seeing listings for pay per view and sports packages then my guess is Zap2it doesn't have/provide that data. I can't change that. This thread talks about not getting Pay per view titles in EPG.

[malore]

Opus4, your observations are spot on. My goal was to list the pilot episode for new series. To do this I first implemented the method used by the "Premieres Only" setting which searches for "Series Premiere" in the guide data. I then tried the method used by "Premieres & Specials" which just searches for showID's ending in 0001. This method catches some shows that the first method misses, but adds a lot of E!/VH1 style 101 best something or other listings. So I implement both methods. I tried a third method of Specials only, but it turned out that half the pilot episodes for new series were shown more than once and only the first airing was marked "Series Premiere", so it only half worked so I got rid of it.

I need to look into grouping by date before I know if it can be done or how difficult it would be, but I'm pretty sure it would require more work than the other methods of grouping.

[mdmint]

Just installed your STV on my Client and way cool. And I'm another one jealous of not having access to Studio!

Interesting "glitch" or quirk. Under custom menus, viewing history, it lists not only viewed programs but recorded not viewed programs (maybe it's supposed to?) More interesting it lists some programs I never even recorded or watched - some from BEFORE I even downloaded and installed Sage!

[malore]

mdmint,

Glad you like it. Yes, it sometimes shows recent old guide data. I could just only list watched shows, but not all recorded shows are watched before being deleted and if you marked it unwatched than it would disappear from the history list, also shows just marked don't like would not be listed. So, instead I list all the guide data older than 2 days. SageTV seems to usually delete guide older 2 days unless it has been recorded or marked watched, don't like, etc. But occassionally it doesn't and you see old guide data.
If look again after a guide update this might clear up. You can also use the filtering options to only show watched shows.

Originally posted by mdmint
More interesting it lists some programs I never even recorded or watched - some from BEFORE I even downloaded and installed Sage!

I'm not sure how that would happen. Is it a recent date or something off the wall like 1969?

[mdmint]

Recent date, May 13th 04. I may be mistaken and that may have been the first date I brought the Server up. I'd have to check for sure.

I'll play with filtering and try for only watched. Makes sense to me for "viewing history" to display what we've viewed!

BTW, you have three custom "Guides", what are they for, they seem to display the same thing. (or should I read some directons...)

[kny3twalker]

ok I did not realize this but could you add the xmltv for just directv and dish payperview I am sure this would really make alot of us happy
the thread you sent me to just died off
with no solution as I could see
maybe with studio you or mlbdude could get this going maybe with some help from members that use xmltv
If I am out of line by asking this just say so
but yeah TitanTV does have per pay per view listing and mostly correct
I suppose I may watch it and check for the next few days that they are cool
I still want to use the epg from zap but xmltv for TitantV pay per view would be sweet

this seems more like you than mlbdude anyways if someone is going to do it
thanks