STV: Cayars17 Ultimate STV (Release 17 - Jan 18)

[ChrisAllenFiz]

Originally Posted by abbott_m

I think I've discovered a bug in 18D. Went to schedule recording, Search on Outsider and select it, Sage locks up. Kill Sage and try to restart and it won't restart. Reboot and everything is ok.

I did a bit more testing and went back to the original STV and tried to schedule the show which popped up with "Selection returned no records" or something similar. Not sure exactly why the show is still in the list of shows if there is no valid episode but 18D isn't dealing with the situation.

Anyone else able to confirm this (I guess this will only last until the show actually times out of the EPG).

I have had this happen as well

[Drazi]

Originally Posted by vanir

I'm having some BIZARRE stuff happen with the menus in v17. When I'm in the live TV guide and I have the menus set to show live video as the background underneath the menus, it draws weird triangles all over everything, and instead of highlighting the menu item I want, it highlights whatever is next to it. It also sometimes draws the text for the menus 2 or 3 times in various places around the screen. (Yeah, I know that's vague. I can make screencaps if anyone thinks it would help....)

Everything works fine when I have the video in a little window in the live tv guide. However, sadly, I am having the same trouble as osarika with "watch now" not working in Live TV. And that's sufficiently annoying that I don't want to use this skin. Which is the saddest thing of all, because I love the features this thing has so much that I might take Cayars home to meet my parents.

Now, this might just be something totally goofy I have my system set as, as I am having some trouble getting my video codecs to work properly (and it will only let me use VMR9, -- Overlay mode crashes Sage to the desktop!). I just wanted to know if anybody's seen this and knows how to fix it if it's not just me being retarded.

Any ideas?

thanks

-Matt

This is a known issue with Cayars and VMR9 mode and has been reported a few times in this thread. No fix yet.

On my system I can't even use the video window, I get the "triangles" and other screen garbage either way so I have it turned off. Mine does work fine in overlay mode so I'm not sure why your system crashes.

[julesjohn]

I may be having a similiar problem. I had to rebuild my HTPC recently though after losing my hard drive. Anyway currently when running Cayars the menus no matter where I am in the UI do not clear from the previous location I was. So I am seeing the menu and images from previous locations in the UI I had been. It is essentially not redrawing or clearing the last image.

When I run the original STV this does not happen. I am on the v3 beta of SageTV though too.

[bones71]

julesjohn It sounds like a bockground problem reselect your background. Worked for me.

[reboot_this]

Originally Posted by abbott_m

I think I've discovered a bug in 18D. Went to schedule recording, Search on Outsider and select it, Sage locks up. Kill Sage and try to restart and it won't restart. Reboot and everything is ok.

I did a bit more testing and went back to the original STV and tried to schedule the show which popped up with "Selection returned no records" or something similar. Not sure exactly why the show is still in the list of shows if there is no valid episode but 18D isn't dealing with the situation.

Anyone else able to confirm this (I guess this will only last until the show actually times out of the EPG).

Originally Posted by ChrisAllenFiz

I have had this happen as well

check out my previous posting regarding the "search" issues...

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=89350

[edited]

In addition, when searching by title, if you have an old recording by the same name as what you're typing in then it will show up in the "matches" even though there are no "new" listings to record...

for instance, if I was looking to find more "LAW AND ORDER" episodes and I start typing "LA" and nothing more... "LAX" would show up as a match, not because there are future episodes that can be recorded, but because I have an old episode, and SageTV sees it as a match as well. Don't know why but it happens on my system, always has... doesn't matter what version of SageTV nor what STV I use

[julesjohn]

Originally Posted by bones71

julesjohn It sounds like a bockground problem reselect your background. Worked for me.

Thanks. Yes that was it. STV when reused couldn't find the original background I had set. Thanks!

[bones71]

Glad to finally help someone else. Everyones always helping me.

[rymiller]

I have searched for the answer everywhere and cannot find the answer.

Both my weather menu items do not work.

1. Local Weather: I get "Failed to run weather retriever: blah blah". I see many others have this same problem but not a solution that works for me. What should I do.

2. WRS: "Failed to load WRS java classes". Again, I see others have this prlblem but not a solution that works for me.

I have the latest ultimate STV installed:

Cayars17.zip
CoreFilesR2.zip
.net 1.1
multiple JRE's

What else should I do?

Thanks,

[abasu2003]

There is a set of files that you need to extract to your java's lib\ext\ directory. I think its called java.zip or some such at the beginning of this thread

[Cayars]

Just an update for you guys. I've been programming again even though I haven't said much here. You should see an update in a day or two.

[mbrown3]

Have you discovered anything on 18D crashing machines? Just wondering. I'm back on 17 and all seems well (so far...reverted last night).

[insomniac]

Awesome! cant wait.

Originally Posted by Cayars

Just an update for you guys. I've been programming again even though I haven't said much here. You should see an update in a day or two.

[BerrantRyke]

Drool..................

[mbrown3]

Originally Posted by mbrown3

Have you discovered anything on 18D crashing machines? Just wondering. I'm back on 17 and all seems well (so far...reverted last night).

Sorry Cayars...it is NOT your STV. Damn. I really thought I had this pinned down, but it just crashed on me again. That means it's one of two things...2.2.6 or Java 1.5. Those are the only two things I've installed since the crashing has been happening. Everything else is the same. I guess I'll keep troubleshooting, but just wanted to apologize. Apparently this crashing is not related to your STV, since I was running 17 for weeks before the crashing started, and it just did it again on 17, with 2.2.6.

[osarika]

Well, here is my brief experience. the Local Weather will not work in v.17 because weatherroom.com has temporarily deactivated their XML service... and this is what local weather tries to bring up.

As for the WRS, I haven't had any problems with it whatsoever--works great. That being said, coming from my system admin. experience, I would recommend uninstalling all versions of your java completely, rebooting, re-install 1.5 from the java.com website, and reboot, and see if that helps. Also, when you extracted the CORE and Cayars files, did you keep the paths intact?

-osarika

Originally Posted by rymiller

I have searched for the answer everywhere and cannot find the answer.

Both my weather menu items do not work.

1. Local Weather: I get "Failed to run weather retriever: blah blah". I see many others have this same problem but not a solution that works for me. What should I do.

2. WRS: "Failed to load WRS java classes". Again, I see others have this prlblem but not a solution that works for me.

I have the latest ultimate STV installed:

Cayars17.zip
CoreFilesR2.zip
.net 1.1
multiple JRE's

What else should I do?

Thanks,

[Cayars]

Glad to hear it mbrown3! I haven't experienced any crashes at all so I was surprised to hear it. Sorry for you, but glad it's not the STV.

Try rolling back your Java and see what happens.

[mbrown3]

Originally Posted by Cayars

Glad to hear it mbrown3! I haven't experienced any crashes at all so I was surprised to hear it. Sorry for you, but glad it's not the STV.

Try rolling back your Java and see what happens.

Yeah, I'll try that. I went to 1.5 to try to fix a stuttering problem I was having since 2.2.5/2.2.6, but it didn't actually fix the problem. So I'll try reverting java and see if that helps.

[dcannon]

I did a quick search and couldn't find any mention of this. Whenever I do a search by title a list comes up matching the critieria of the search, some of the entries in the list I know are not actually going to be aired in the next 2 weeks or so. If I click on these entries the UI locks up and won't allow any inputs, I let it sit for over 15 minutes to see if maybe it was just struggling, but still nothing. The previous behavior was to display a window saying that no entries were found. I am using 2.2.5 RC with Cayars 17. Anyone have any ideas?

[reboot_this]

Originally Posted by dcannon

I did a quick search and couldn't find any mention of this. Whenever I do a search by title a list comes up matching the critieria of the search, some of the entries in the list I know are not actually going to be aired in the next 2 weeks or so. If I click on these entries the UI locks up and won't allow any inputs, I let it sit for over 15 minutes to see if maybe it was just struggling, but still nothing. The previous behavior was to display a window saying that no entries were found. I am using 2.2.5 RC with Cayars 17. Anyone have any ideas?

please see my previous post #3125, I think you might find it useful...

If it helps you then I will quote your post into my post so I can keep referring others to it

[vanir]

Originally Posted by Drazi

This is a known issue with Cayars and VMR9 mode and has been reported a few times in this thread. No fix yet.

On my system I can't even use the video window, I get the "triangles" and other screen garbage either way so I have it turned off. Mine does work fine in overlay mode so I'm not sure why your system crashes.

Well, I got my problem with the video codecs fixed, which in turn let me use Overlay mode again, which in turn got me running Cayars just fine.

My wife can watch Battlestar Galactica, the world is good once again. Thanks guys.