[Schedules Direct] SageTV developers: new API

[KryptoNyte]

Check your Paypal ENE. It's not much, but I don't expect something for nothing. Thank you.

[AlphaCrew]

Originally Posted by KryptoNyte

Check your Paypal ENE. It's not much, but I don't expect something for nothing. Thank you.

Wait WHAT? ENE has a Paypal account.. Can you post that please..

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by KryptoNyte

Check your Paypal ENE. It's not much, but I don't expect something for nothing. Thank you.

I'm sure you meant to make that a PM.

[KryptoNyte]

Originally Posted by AlphaCrew

Wait WHAT? ENE has a Paypal account.. Can you post that please..

I can't give that out. But I'll bet he can.

Errr ... PM right, that's what it was.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by AlphaCrew

Wait WHAT? ENE has a Paypal account.. Can you post that please..

I don't really want to get into donations because that can be a hairy thing. I'm time limited, not financially limited. I greatly appreciate the donations from a few very persistent people , but unfortunately I cannot promise anything based on them as I have expressed to those same people.

One of the things that money can't buy is time and while I wish it wasn't true, no amount of money will allow me to expend any more of my free time than I am able to on this open source project. This time off from serious development to spend time with my family has been very relaxing and I had not realized how close I was to burnout until I took this time off.

I have not abandoned support of my contributions to the SageTV community, I have only reduced my code contributions to only fixing important issues. EPG changes qualify as an important issue, so I will dedicate whatever time it takes to accommodate them if needed regardless of time I would like to myself.

[VCRUser]

Greatly appreciated!

[VCRUser]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

One of the things a lot of users will like is that the service will start to allow up to 5 tokens at a time so you don't have multiple servers fighting over who gets the token.

I'm not sure what this means: is this something that would be useful if you had more than one Sage server? I have only the one. What benefits are there to setting up additional ones? Ability to add tuners using additional servers if the original server is short on resources? Multiple servers seems like mostly a hassle unless they can integrate their recordings, talk to each other to optimize which server is going to record what show, etc. Or am I totally off track here?

[AlphaCrew]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

I don't really want to get into donations because that can be a hairy thing. I'm time limited, not financially limited. I greatly appreciate the donations from a few very persistent people , but unfortunately I cannot promise anything based on them as I have expressed to those same people.

One of the things that money can't buy is time and while I wish it wasn't true, no amount of money will allow me to expend any more of my free time than I am able to on this open source project. This time off from serious development to spend time with my family has been very relaxing and I had not realized how close I was to burnout until I took this time off.

I have not abandoned support of my contributions to the SageTV community, I have only reduced my code contributions to only fixing important issues. EPG changes qualify as an important issue, so I will dedicate whatever time it takes to accommodate them if needed regardless of time I would like to myself.

No No No, You need to check your records.. I'm pretty sure I have an outstanding bill on file for services all ready rendered.

[RonBoyd]

Originally Posted by AlphaCrew

No No No, You need to check your records.. I'm pretty sure I have an outstanding bill on file for services all ready rendered.

I, too, am on this list of debtors.

[graywolf]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

What I find most interesting is that downloading images with the new API now requires authentication. I suspect we'll need to create a custom path in the image downloading code to know when to use a Schedules Direct token.

What I would prefer is that SDRipper can register a custom handler with the part of SageTV that handles image downloading (probably via an interface) and that would be how we can make sure we have a valid token for each request. I might attempt to implement this mechanism in the mean time.

When you have time to look at this code, would it be possible for a setting to disable download of images for those “Ludites “ that don’t care about headshots and other images?

[NetworkGuy]

Originally Posted by EnterNoEscape

I hope you all can take some comfort in that I have previously stated, I will do whatever is required to keep the Schedules Direct EPG working. If they EOL the current API version in a year, I will make sure we are already using the new version before then. I may poke around the beta version over the next few months, but I will not push any changes to the main project until the new API is out of beta.

Thanks for your continuing support!

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

I'm not sure what this means: is this something that would be useful if you had more than one Sage server? I have only the one. What benefits are there to setting up additional ones? Ability to add tuners using additional servers if the original server is short on resources? Multiple servers seems like mostly a hassle unless they can integrate their recordings, talk to each other to optimize which server is going to record what show, etc. Or am I totally off track here?

Yep, it's just helpful to users with multiple servers.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by graywolf

When you have time to look at this code, would it be possible for a setting to disable download of images for those “Ludites “ that don’t care about headshots and other images?

Sure. That would be a trivial addition.

[wayner]

Originally Posted by VCRUser

I'm not sure what this means: is this something that would be useful if you had more than one Sage server? I have only the one. What benefits are there to setting up additional ones? Ability to add tuners using additional servers if the original server is short on resources? Multiple servers seems like mostly a hassle unless they can integrate their recordings, talk to each other to optimize which server is going to record what show, etc. Or am I totally off track here?

I have multiple servers on my system which gives me redundancies and an on-site backup. That way if something goes wrong with one server I can just select a different one when the Extender turns on. And I have my media files synced on a regular basis as a backup in case of a hard drive failure.

Helpful if you have kids. The only thing I don't have is an easy way to move an HD-PVR from one server to another.

[VCRUser]

Do you record using all the servers, or just with one, and use the others just for playback and backup? I would think using all for recording could get complicated, unless you dedicate different ones to different channels or types of shows.

[wayner]

I just record to the main server, the others are just for backup for playback. Shows that I archive will also get backed up to the other server(s). Theoretically I could also record from the HDHR OTA tuners, but you have to be careful that you don't have both PCs fighting for the tuner.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by wayner

I just record to the main server, the others are just for backup for playback. Shows that I archive will also get backed up to the other server(s). Theoretically I could also record from the HDHR OTA tuners, but you have to be careful that you don't have both PCs fighting for the tuner.

I use OPENDCT on both of my servers for OTA and Cable this way I can pool the tuners and each server will check for tuner usage...and move on to next available tuner.

[wayner]

We don't do a lot of recording - my main reason to have the other servers is to be able to playback content in one minute if the main server is down due to whatever reason.

The kids are happy to watch older prerecorded shows or movies, and are increasingly watching Youtube or Netflix.

The only one that really needs recording capabilities is me - to record the Leafs, Raptors and golf.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by wayner

We don't do a lot of recording - my main reason to have the other servers is to be able to playback content in one minute if the main server is down due to whatever reason.

The kids are happy to watch older prerecorded shows or movies, and are increasingly watching Youtube or Netflix.

The only one that really needs recording capabilities is me - to record the Leafs, Raptors and golf.

The reason I mention OPENDCT pooling is because it allows me to run Channels DVR and HDHomeRun DVR and share tuners among all of them. OPENDCT has allowed me to keep Sage running.