Android App: Phoenix for SageTV

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by mechling-burgh

I uninstalled phoenix and it's dependencies then uninstalled gson.jar. Rebooted, checked jar directory gson.jar was gone. reinstalled all removed plugins and it reinstalled gson-1.7.1.jar again, not a newer version. Any ideas how to get around this?

Try installing this log collector and email me (metadatatools at gmail dot com)

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[Fonceur]

Here are some random observations...

- The accentuated characters are appearing as a question mark in a white lozenge...

- The app doesn't support landscape...

- You should grab(put) the client's name from(in) the Sage.properties if it exists, as in:

sagex/uicontexts/00085c53a2e4/name=myHD100

which has been adopted by a few SageTV plugin authors...

- On a Nexus 7, you're not using the full width...

- With the default STV, the "Watch on TV" is indeed windowed and not handling the screensaver.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

Here are some random observations...

- The accentuated characters are appearing as a question mark in a white lozenge...

- The app doesn't support landscape...

- You should grab(put) the client's name from(in) the Sage.properties if it exists, as in:

sagex/uicontexts/00085c53a2e4/name=myHD100

which has been adopted by a few SageTV plugin authors...

- On a Nexus 7, you're not using the full width...

- With the default STV, the "Watch on TV" is indeed windowed and not handling the screensaver.

Thanks... I have a couple of questions...

- The accentuated characters are appearing as a question mark in a white lozenge...

So, it would appear that I'm not UTF-8 encoding the reply on the server, I'll look into that... I don't think I'm doing anything different for sagex apis vs phoenix apis, but I'll check them both to make sure that I'm UTF-8 encoding the data. I'm assuming that you are referring to the data that I'm sending from the server, since I haven't locallized the app to another language, yet. (Maybe I'll get my kids to create a French translation... since they speak french -- I don't )

- The app doesn't support landscape... ;)
- On a Nexus 7, you're not using the full width...

Yeah, I haven't tackled any tablet and landscape optimizations. I assume by not supporting landscape, you mean that it will just fill the screen width instead of using a custom layout. (ie, switching to landscape works for me, it's just ugly). As for the Nexus 7... I have a nexus 7 as well, and I did put in a quick layout there to cap the width on the tablet since it looks really bad on a tablet. Also the images become REALLY large, since they are automatically scaled on the server, and with a 720width for for banners, Android runs out of memory pretty quickly SO, in a nutshell, I need to do lots of work there, but it's going to be pushed off a little.

- You should grab(put) the client's name from(in) the Sage.properties if it exists, as in:

  sagex/uicontexts/00085c53a2e4/name=myHD100

which has been adopted by a few SageTV plugin authors... ;)

Given that It's listed under sagex/unicontexts, then I suspect I may already be aware of it I'll update my phoenix api, Get/SetUIContextNames, to look here as well. Currently it's only looking in the webserver/extender.properties to pull the names. It also saves it there as well. I'll change it to look in both and to update both. Btw, in the app, when you pull up the client names, you can long press on the client to rename it (until I get the api updated)

- With the default STV, the "Watch on TV" is indeed windowed and not handling the screensaver.

I'm not really sure what to do there. I'll see if there is a deactivate screensaver command (or IsScreenSaverActive api). As for the windowed play... again, not sure why Phoenix and the Default STV behave differently here... I did add the code that you posted my play command.

Thanks for posting your feedback.

And a note to anyone... If you have some ideas on how landscape and tablet layout UI should look, then feel free to post some mock ups of what you'd like to see. I've had a couple of suggestions for the main menu as well.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I'm assuming that you are referring to the data that I'm sending from the server, since I haven't locallized the app to another language, yet.

Right, I haven't localized most of my apps either.

I assume by not supporting landscape, you mean that it will just fill the screen width instead of using a custom layout.

No, it always stays in portrait mode, even if started in landscape...

Also the images become REALLY large, since they are automatically scaled on the server, and with a 720width for for banners, Android runs out of memory pretty quickly

Right, the app at work required some work around for big images. In principle, only the rows displayed on screen are actually loaded in memory, so it shouldn't run out of memory. If you are pre-loading them all, then it's a different story...

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

No, it always stays in portrait mode, even if started in landscape...

This is interesting... I just tried on my Galaxy Nexus phone, it switches between landscape and portrait just fine... what device are you using?

Right, the app at work required some work around for big images. In principle, only the rows displayed on screen are actually loaded in memory, so it shouldn't run out of memory. If you are pre-loading them all, then it's a different story...

Yeah I only load as needed and it's not really the app that runs out of memory as much as it's the image decoder (android) that sometime will throw an error when decoding really large images I noticed it more when using the Nexus 7 in landscape mode since the banners were 1280px wide

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by stuckless

This is interesting... I just tried on my Galaxy Nexus phone, it switches between landscape and portrait just fine... what device are you using?

On my Nexus 7, so it's strange that you are not seeing it...

[bikesquid]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

On my Nexus 7, so it's strange that you are not seeing it...

I'm on an HTC vivid and display seems to rotate just fine... same on an asus transformer tablet....

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

On my Nexus 7, so it's strange that you are not seeing it...

Yeah, I just tested on my Nexus 7 as well.... You might notice that NO apps are rotate (mine couldn't) and then I noticed that in my pull down notifications, the screen was locked (it's the icon beside the settings) I changed it and now it can rotate.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by stuckless

You might notice that NO apps are rotate (mine couldn't) and then I noticed that in my pull down notifications, the screen was locked

Actually, my own apps were rotating just fine, though I guess I might not be respecting some newer lock or something...

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

Actually, my own apps were rotating just fine, though I guess I might not be respecting some newer lock or something...

Did you verify if the tablet rotation lock icon was on? And was that the problem for you? Also in your apps, you handle the configuration changes yourself or do you let the OS manage then? I tend to not handle configuration changes, unless I want to prevent an app from rotating.

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Good Luck John... I've seen some of the pictures of the devastation....

We are more fortunate than a lot of people. No major damage, just no power.

Thanks,
John

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by NetworkGuy

We are more fortunate than a lot of people. No major damage, just no power.

Thanks,
John

That's good to hear.

[Fonceur]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Did you verify if the tablet rotation lock icon was on? And was that the problem for you?

Yes, that was it. Probably something they added for the tablets with Android 3 or 4, ...

Also in your apps, you handle the configuration changes yourself or do you let the OS manage then?

Typically I have different layouts for portrait and landscape, so I do have some code for it.

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I'm not sure I asked... but do you have sagex services installed?

ie, in your browser, can you go to the url,

http://ip:port/sagex/api

And does it return a page?

We finally got power back and I was able to test. Problem solved. I did not have sagex services installed.

But I am now getting an interesting result. I imported some mkv files as TV shows to replace the ones I missed when power was out. They do not show on the Android. Is this because of the mkv filetype?

Thanks,
John

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by NetworkGuy

We finally got power back and I was able to test. Problem solved. I did not have sagex services installed.

But I am now getting an interesting result. I imported some mkv files as TV shows to replace the ones I missed when power was out. They do not show on the Android. Is this because of the mkv filetype?

Thanks,
John

Do they show in Phoenix/BMT? Whether or not they show would depend on a couple of things...
1. Did they import as TV files? Or are they showing up as movies?
2. When you added the files, did you tell sagetv to refresh its media so that the media library gets updated?

My tv shows are a mix of mkv and recorded shows... so it's not an issue of file type, but rather, if they've been imported correctly, and which "view" you are using to show the files?

[NetworkGuy]

I found it. They did import as TV shows, but the "archive" flag was on. I cleared the flag and it worked fine.

Thanks,
John

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by NetworkGuy

I found it. They did import as TV shows, but the "archive" flag was on. I cleared the flag and it worked fine.

Thanks,
John

You can also edit the menus in the Menu Manager, and add an All TV view that includes archived tv and regular tv. (you can also create your own view, manually, on the server, and then use that view, which is what I do... I have views for "Unwatched TV Shows" , etc)

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by stuckless

You can also edit the menus in the Menu Manager, and add an All TV view that includes archived tv and regular tv. (you can also create your own view, manually, on the server, and then use that view, which is what I do... I have views for "Unwatched TV Shows" , etc)

I just found that. It works really nice.

Thanks,
John

[sacrament055]

Out of curiosity, could you send text to an extender via this app? I was thinking that if this is the case you could now enable SageTV for voice commands via Google Voice. Speak into the Phone/Tablet, Google translates it to text then you hit send to have Sage find your Youtube video for example.

Just thinking that would be kind of cool if it's possible.

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

Out of curiosity, could you send text to an extender via this app? I was thinking that if this is the case you could now enable SageTV for voice commands via Google Voice. Speak into the Phone/Tablet, Google translates it to text then you hit send to have Sage find your Youtube video for example.

Just thinking that would be kind of cool if it's possible.

Voice commands would be cool. Its not on my short list... but it is something that I can see myself experimenting with at some point.