STV: nielm combo STV (v1.8 Oct 19)

[Methius]

BTW, Is there any way to use a this gif?
The Netherlands WetterOnline GIF

(I get an Failed to Load WRS java classes, when using it.)

[salsbst]

Since the URL contains an ampersand, you need to 'escape' it when inserting this as text in XML. This is known as xml-encoding.

Try this (replaced '&' with '&'):

http://www.wetteronline.de/daten/radar/ddlnw/std.gif?2729e62254f9cdea730fdcff05399e5d&LANG=de

[salsbst]

(note my first post of the above got mucked with by the board, so be sure to use the one wrapped in the code tags)

[salsbst]

Ok, it's clear now. You guys have locale settings that default the expected date format to the European standard, and weather.com is giving it to you in the U.S. standard format.

For those with the date format problem (symptom is no local conditions or forecast), try this:

a) quit SageTV
b) extract the attached zip file to your SageTV directory (preserve folders)... overwriting the existing WeatherDotCom.class file
c) start it up and test

Thanks.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by abasu2003

I have a feeling this is another one of those times i'm not looking hard enough but can you expand on the custom command capability?

I'm basically jsut looking for a format of how this would work, both in the Sage.Properties file and how you would access it in the UI

set the following in sage.properties (while sage is fully shut down blah blah blah)

nielm/detailview/custom_command=c\:\\temp\\test.exe
nielm/detailview/custom_command_name=test

in the detailed info for a recording, you now have a new button 'test' that will run c:\temp\test.exe with the arguments being the full pathname of the mpg file.

What you do with it is up to you

[Methius]

Now only if I had a paypal account ...(The Forecast, etc, now works!)

Btw, how do I get the GIF to work? (it only displays the 1st frame in manualanimation and gives a Failed to load WRS Java classes in:
<view name="eurain" speed="1000" delay="2500" maxage="0.25">
<layer type="animation">
<image href="http://www.wetteronline.de/daten/radar/ddlnw/std.gif?2729e62254f9cdea730fdcff05399e5d&amp;LANG=de"/>
</layer>
</view>

[nielm]

for animated gifs the href it should be in the layer tag

<view name="eurain" speed="1000" delay="2500" maxage="0.25">
  <layer type="animation" href="http://www.wetteronline.de/daten/radar/ddlnw/std.gif?2729e62254f9cdea730fdcff05399e5d&amp;LANG=de"/>
</view>

But, even with that, the image will not display due to a bug either in the GIF, or in the gif parsing code...

com.stusals.rotan.Animation: com.stusals.gif.ParseException: Graphic Control Extension without Graphic Rendering Block.

[salsbst]

Seems that is so... I'm looking into it right now.

[Methius]

Seems ironic that you would get better helpdesk support from hobbyists than from payed employees .

Edit: is there a way for me to load the gif file of the HD?
(this is because the gif file has a code that changes every couple of hours )

[Henki]

WRS is working great now! Thanks

[salsbst]

is there a way for me to load the gif file of the HD?
(this is because the gif file has a code that changes every couple of hours )

You can load the gif file from the hard drive, but if the URL changes every couple of hours then you will need to implement some sort of process that will download the latest version of the file to your hard drive. Scheduling this is fairly straightforward, but finding the proper URL may take some effort.

The good news is that I have a fix for the GIF parsing....

I'm pretty sure the GIF is breaking the so-called rules (the standard for animated GIFs isn't so much a standard as it is a widely supported hack)... I need to do some more testing to make sure that my workaround doesn't break the parsing of valid GIFs. I'll post back when I'm comfortable with the changes.

[salsbst]

Okay, here's the proposed fix for the inability to parse Methius' animated GIF. Methius, please test. Anyone else who feels like having some fun, it would be good to hear whether or not your existing animations continue to function (I expect they will).

a) quit SageTV
b) extract the contents of the attached zip to your SageTV directory... it should overwrite the files in the com/stusals/gif directory
c) launch SageTV and test

Thanks.

[nielm]

Originally Posted by Methius

Edit: is there a way for me to load the gif file of the HD?
(this is because the gif file has a code that changes every couple of hours )

A file:/// url should do it... You might have to play around with the number of slashes, but either file://localhost/c:/temp/file.gif or file:///c:/temp/file.gif.
The tricky bit will be writing something to parse the web page to find the image URL so that you can download it to disk

[nielm]

Originally Posted by salsbst

Okay, here's the proposed fix for the inability to parse Methius' animated GIF. Methius, please test.

Works for me...

Methius, if you do write something that grabs the latest image and saves it to disk, I would be very interested (I have yet to find a decent EU rainfall map!)

[Methius]

Well... The Gif works... now the grabber :-/

I'll share it if/when I finish it.. (If it's within my limit :-/)

[srothwell]

Hi....

I hope this isn't too much of a bother, but can anyone give a step by step list of what to do to get Commercial Skip working?

I'm using neilm 1.8. I've installed the comskip.exe, comskip.ini files in the directory where .wiz file is.

I've told Sage to comm detect and it starts chunking the drive, the comm detect menu disappears, but I don't get the purple lines on the OSD saying it found anything nor to I see any of the .txt files that are supposed to be there.

I must have missed a step somewhere.

Thanks!

[salsbst]

Here's an example of the format for a URL to a local file:

href="file:/C:/Program%20Files/Frey%20Technologies/SageTV/STVs/OriginalV2/radar_key_area.gif"

[DIBU]

YES IT WORKES.. GREAT JOB... TNX




Greetings from Germany to all sage fans and to the famous developer... special greetings to nielm and all people they nake this great STV better and better...

[DreamWeb]

I love this addon!! I'm using the latest version.. and I still cannot get "Upcomming movies" to work in the custom menus. It just snows, "No Shows". All the other custom menus work. Anyone have any idea what might be wrong?

d.

[ruel]

regarding upcoming movies, in options on that screen, you have to input the names of all of the channels that you normally watch movies on. the defaults are mplex, sho, and hbo - if you don't have those channels, then you get nothing on the screen. so you have to put in the names of the channels that you normally watch.

ruel