SageTV Catchup

[PeterC]

Originally Posted by michaeldjcox

Just out of interest what encoder is that?

Its one I wrote using Dvbviewer recording service and allows me to use Blackgold tuners.

[michaeldjcox]

Anybody seeing issues with number of programmes and episodes?

Number of programmes is usually 1000 plus

I'm getting lots of unknown host www.bbc.co.uk and only a few hundred programmes.

Might because I'm using a dev build or my crappy internet connection at home

Michael

[michaeldjcox]

Its a DNS issue with BT internet - fixed by manually setting the primary and secondary DNS in windows network config.

phew

Michael

[jt4242]

I have been using this plugin since you made it available and I want to thank you again for it. It's great!! And it makes iPlayer so much easier and I love having the listings and the descriptions available.

Thank you again!!

julie

[michaeldjcox]

Not sure if anyone else but me is still using this plugin.

I tried to add PlayOn plugin to my setup and for some reason playon interferes with the presentation of online services for iplayer and you just see blank squares with no text.

I have decided to add Upnp access as a plugin to SageTV Catchup as Upnp/DNLA seems fairly straightforward.

Michael

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by michaeldjcox

Not sure if anyone else but me is still using this plugin.

I tried to add PlayOn plugin to my setup and for some reason playon interferes with the presentation of online services for iplayer and you just see blank squares with no text.

I have decided to add Upnp access as a plugin to SageTV Catchup as Upnp/DNLA seems fairly straightforward.

Michael

I use the PlayOn plugin, but have to disable it if I want to see any Youtube material. For some reason, they don't play well together

[deanm]

I use this plugin everyday. And it has saved my bacon many a time. Especially over Xmas when my server crashed.

Bit like you since I installed Playon I noticed that the displays is messed up. But noticed that if I go to Sources > BBC IPlayer all the files are in one big alphabetical list.

Could you explain what adding UPNP/DNLA would mean?

Thanks for your work on this.

Dean

[deanm]

Hi Michael

Do you have a update on this yet?

Dean

[michaeldjcox]

Hi,

So I was planning to hook on the likes of netflix and amazon instant video via PlayOn but avoiding the playon plugin as it interferes with presentation of online services in this plugin.

So this means messing with UPnP/DNLA. I made some progress but life at work an home as got in the way a little.

Michael

[michaeldjcox]

The plugin stopped working recently due to some web site changes at the BBC.

You need to upgrade your get_iplayer to 2.94 or later.

And also upgrade to the 1.0.1 version of the plugin or if you are feeling lazy you can try overwriting this file:

sagetvcatchup/plugins/Iplayer/getEpisode.groovy

With the version in the attached zip file

This release is a definite improvement but it would not surprise me if there were still issues with some content.

Michael

[jamesdisco]

many thanks for this, the plugin hasnt worked for me for months
working well again now

[deanm]

Thanks for the update.

Just rebuilt my sever over two weeks ago and just getting round to reinstall your plugin.

Keep up the good work.

Dean

[jt4242]

Completely bizarre but it looks as if Catchup has been working after all???? When I read jamesdisco's comment about the fix working, I knew it had to be something in my setup so I tried an old backup and all was there. Back to the recent backup and gone again. Big mystery.

I then clicked on one of the blank spots on the screen and voila! text and images???? So I could get at things but was clicking blind.

I've never seen anything like that blank screen and have no idea what I might have done to cause it - I'm uploading some screenshots - number 1 shows the screen I see when I go to Air Date, #2 is after I have clicked on the blank previous screen, and #3 is after I click on one of the entries.

Ended up restoring an older backup from June, updated the plugin and copied over my current wiz.bin file and all is well.

Thanks for the update and maybe someone can solve my mystery!

[j1mb0b]

Originally Posted by jt4242

Completely bizarre but it looks as if Catchup has been working after all???? When I read jamesdisco's comment about the fix working, I knew it had to be something in my setup so I tried an old backup and all was there. Back to the recent backup and gone again. Big mystery.

I then clicked on one of the blank spots on the screen and voila! text and images???? So I could get at things but was clicking blind.

I've never seen anything like that blank screen and have no idea what I might have done to cause it - I'm uploading some screenshots - number 1 shows the screen I see when I go to Air Date, #2 is after I have clicked on the blank previous screen, and #3 is after I click on one of the entries.

Ended up restoring an older backup from June, updated the plugin and copied over my current wiz.bin file and all is well.

Thanks for the update and maybe someone can solve my mystery!

I just tried installing this plugin and have the same effect. I can view the programs, but just like jt, it's always a surprise as to what I get to watch

I can disable the playon plugin and it seems to be OK. Is there anything I can do to allow the two to play together nicely?

[michaeldjcox]

Yeah the playon plugin seems to do something with the way online feeds are presented and possibly used.

I haven't found any answer to that - I just uninstalled playon which was not really giving me any content of interest.

Maybe the playon plugin team might be able to comment on if the plugin makes any changes to the way online video is handled by SageTV?

Or perhaps there is some kind of port conflict?

Can you be a bit more specific about what you actually see?

Michael

[jt4242]

Would the three images I posted in the email just before j1mb0b be what you want? It sounds as if j1mb0b is seeing the same thing I see.

[JREkiwi]

Michael, a couple of questions for you

I've modified my get_iplayer cmd to download subtitles, however they don't get renamed and copied over to the SageTV recording with the video and jpg file. Is there a configuration setting to include the subtitles in the copied files? or is that function in the java code?

Also, is there any way to define which SageTV recording directory the files end up in?

Thanks for a create plugin

John

[michaeldjcox]

Sorry for the long absence...

Also sorry that I seem to just take the first directory returned by

SageAPI("GetVideoDirectories", null)

Reordering the recording directories in SageTV config to bring the desired directory to the top might provide a workaround.

The subtitle thing would need a code change I'm afraid

Michael

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Michael, a couple of questions for you

I've modified my get_iplayer cmd to download subtitles, however they don't get renamed and copied over to the SageTV recording with the video and jpg file. Is there a configuration setting to include the subtitles in the copied files? or is that function in the java code?

Also, is there any way to define which SageTV recording directory the files end up in?

Thanks for a create plugin

John

[michaeldjcox]

My plugin has been awarded the highest mark of recognition known to man.

My wife as added "fix the SageTV iplayer thing" to the list of Christmas jobs just below put the lights up.

Fortunately its a massively easy win so I can expect numerous brownie points when she returns from being away.

The BBC have added a line feed in the middle of an html tag i.e.

<a
href=

and this has broken the plugin.

You can fix without a release.

Find the file e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\SageTV\SageTV\sagetvcatchup\plugins\Iplayer\getEpisodes.groovy

And change the line:

programmeBlock = MOVE_TO("<a href=\"", programmeBlock);

to read

programmeBlock = MOVE_TO("href=\"", programmeBlock);

Disable the plugin and then re-enable.

The next catalog should work.

Merry Christmas!

Michael

[jamesdisco]

Many thanks for the fix, noticed last week it wasn't working finally got round to coming on here only to see you'd already posted the fix.