Plugin: External Status Monitor Interface (V1.3, 24-Jan-2006) - Page 7

peterras · #**121** 12-28-2006, 03:31 AM

Hi,

I am new at SageTV coming from TVedia (should have done it along time ago)

When a device is not recording, I would like to see when and what is to been recorded next. Is this possible or will it be added to the plug-in at sometime.

I am planning to make a small program for a PDA with WiFi to connect to GetStatus and show the info.

Yours hopefully

Peter

koelec · #**122** 12-28-2006, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by peterras

Hi,

I am new at SageTV coming from TVedia (should have done it along time ago)

When a device is not recording, I would like to see when and what is to been recorded next. Is this possible or will it be added to the plug-in at sometime.

I am planning to make a small program for a PDA with WiFi to connect to GetStatus and show the info.

Yours hopefully

Peter

Alternatively you could install Nielm's web plugin (which gives you nearly everything you can do with the SageTV GUI via a web browser) and use the browser on your PDA.

- Chris

peterras · #**123** 12-29-2006, 02:31 AM

I have see the WebSerber, but I was looking for a more simple layout, and when the PC with SageTV is on Standby, I what the PDA to still show current time, and time to next record.

geogecko · #**124** 12-29-2006, 10:10 AM

peterras

I'm not sure that anything could monitor the time to next recording, when the information needed is on a PC that is in Standby? Maybe I'm not following you, perhaps.

As for the Webserver, there is a simpler layout, which is what I use when viewing the Webserver on my cell phone.

Instead of using the below URL (what I use when using the internet, say at work):

www.user.dyndns.tv:8080/sage/Home

I use:

www.user.dyndns.tv:8080/sage/menu.html

It's an all text based main menu, however, it still links to the same internal menus, from what I've seen just now.

However, Opera on my cell phone had problems selecting from the drop down menus on the main menu, so using this text based main menu corrected that problem. Not sure what browser you are using...

FidgetyRat · #**125** 02-14-2007, 01:52 PM

i noticed i'm getting no "now playing" information using sageMC's audio player. Is this a known problem or something that could be fixed?

Sage 6
MC6.3.2

Grasshopper · #**126** 02-17-2007, 07:46 AM

Is there any chance that the external status plugin causes playback exception errors? I was positively festooned with Sage playback exception errors telling me to install the latest version of DirectX or reinstall it (when of course I was up to date). Fed up, I wiped the hard drive and reinstalled Windows and Sage Client yesterday. When I tested the install, it worked fine (no errors), until I installed the status JAR's, at which point I got another exception. It could be a coincidence, but I took the JAR's back out and reverted back to the old sageclient.properties file, and haven't seen a playback exception since.

knarfishness · #**127** 05-18-2007, 12:31 AM

Had this working rather well in Default STV 6.1, but after upgrading/changing over to SageMC, it doesn't give any more output. Is there a change in the output from Default STV to SageMC? I was under the impression that SageMC was more of an interface overhaul than a codebase re-write.

cslatt · #**128** 05-18-2007, 08:53 AM

Works fine for me in SageMC. Maybe something else has changed? Make sure the line is still there in the Properties file, that you have an exception setup in any person firewalls on the machine, etc.

knarfishness · #**129** 05-18-2007, 05:57 PM

The line's still there, along with the one put there by the Web-Interface intstaller, so that hasn't changed. Still shows it's listening on 20000, but telnet doesn't give any output. Gonna try replacing the JAR's and a full reboot. Finally have a gap in my recording schedule

grbsaaber · #**130** 06-07-2007, 07:24 PM

Is there an additional download area for the getstatus plugin. Seems the site is down.

THanks

visiontim · #**131** 10-02-2007, 12:35 AM

Is this still current? I'm having problems getting it going.

pdavis · #**132** 12-20-2007, 05:06 PM

Arg! The sage-community.org is gone. I really hate forums... I always forget about them.

nielm · #**133** 12-20-2007, 05:16 PM

Fixed link in first post...

Mtlca401 · #**134** 03-25-2008, 02:37 PM

I have built a program, in vb.net, that retrieves this now playing and recording info and my question is how do I convert the values now_playing_starttime, endtime and currpos to a time format. For instance for the starttime for a particular recording I have 1206131400000 and I know that this value should be 3:30 pm. How can I convert this?

cslatt · #**135** 03-26-2008, 07:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mtlca401

I have built a program, in vb.net, that retrieves this now playing and recording info and my question is how do I convert the values now_playing_starttime, endtime and currpos to a time format. For instance for the starttime for a particular recording I have 1206131400000 and I know that this value should be 3:30 pm. How can I convert this?

That value is the number milliseconds since the Unix epoch (Jan 1, 1970) so I just do:

Dim nowPlayingDate as dateTime = New dateTime(1970, 1, 1).AddMilliseconds(valueFromGetStatusPlugin)

BUT, if you want to save yourself even more trouble, I already wrote a VB.NET class that handles all of the parsing for the Sage GetStatus plugin (I used it for the MizookLCD LCDSmartie Plugin) and I can compile it as a DLL and send it your way when I get home from work tonight if you'd like.

Mtlca401 · #**136** 03-26-2008, 03:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cslatt

That value is the number milliseconds since the Unix epoch (Jan 1, 1970) so I just do:

Dim nowPlayingDate as dateTime = New dateTime(1970, 1, 1).AddMilliseconds(valueFromGetStatusPlugin)

BUT, if you want to save yourself even more trouble, I already wrote a VB.NET class that handles all of the parsing for the Sage GetStatus plugin (I used it for the MizookLCD LCDSmartie Plugin) and I can compile it as a DLL and send it your way when I get home from work tonight if you'd like.

Thanks for the reply. I did manage to get it to work yesterday and have my program already up and running. I would have just used the LCDSmartie plugins that are out there, but I do not have an LED LCD screen. I have an actual LCD 7" widescreen computer screen that hooks up VGA as a secondary monitor. I could not find any programs out there for an actual computer screen so I built one my self to show what is playing and recording.

thanks

shadeblue.com · #**137** 07-11-2008, 07:12 PM

Is it possible to use this plugin to obtain the 'now playing show' on a HD Extender?

babgvant · #**138** 07-20-2008, 01:35 PM

Is there a way to get recording status when the client is closed (have the server load it maybe)? I'd rather not leave the client open all the time.

shadeblue.com · #**139** 09-08-2008, 11:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by babgvant

Is there a way to get recording status when the client is closed (have the server load it maybe)? I'd rather not leave the client open all the time.

Hi babgvant,

I was able to add this plugin to the sage.properties file and get it to load up with the service rather than with the client. I also pulled the source from sourceforge and modified a private copy to include support for listing the playing now status for my HD extenders

babgvant · #**140** 09-09-2008, 06:48 AM

I ended up using the webserver for recording information and this pluggin for playback.

Can you recommend a good, free Java IDE?

Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)