Plugin: LCD Smartie status display (1.0.3.1 - October 29 2005)

[AndersNolberger]

I have now made version 1.0 of the LCD Smartie plugin available at http://www.nolberger.se/Sage/LCDSmartie/.
This plugin uses nielm's "External Status Monitor Interface" to show status information about Sage on LCD displays supported by LCD Smartie. Read http://forums.sage.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=8757 for more information.

2005-01-29
New version 1.0.3 available. Small changes to be compatible with latest LCD Smartie.

2005-10-29
Version 1.0.3.1: Keeps the connection to Status monitor open to avoid unnecessary network load (No TIME_WAIT in netstat)

/Anders

[Crashless]

I can't believe that there haven't been any posts here.

Your plugin is GREAT! I just found a plugin that lets me use my old PalmPilot as an LCD, and this works perfectly with LCD Smartie.

I do have one request though. Would it be possible to have a command return the number of shows being recorded, and have each show being recorded have an output?

I can't yet record more than one show yet, but I would like a screen to show that either one, or no shows are being recorded.

Thanks for listening, and again, GREAT JOB!

[AndersNolberger]

Thank you.

To get how many shows being recorded try this $dll(sage.dll, 0,,).

And to get the show being recorded on tuner 1: $dll(sage.dll, 2, 1,) for tuner 2: $dll(sage.dll, 2, 2,) and so on.

[Crashless]

I think I tried the $dll(sage.dll, 0,,) and it always returned 1. I'll try it again though.

Ah, I now see how the tuner ID works. For some reason I got confused when I was looking at the command matrix.

Thanks for the help!

[PeteL]

I have to agree! This plug-in is great! Thanks!

Are there any plans to include the ability to show additional MP3 (music) data? I'm able to display the Artist, but what about the Track/Title/Year, etc.?

Great job! (and a thanks to Neilm too!)

- Pete

[nielm]

album name and track Title are in there -- it should be in the same fields as the 'show' and 'episode' respectivly:
album=$dll(sage.dll, 2,0,0)
Title=$dll(sage.dll, 3,0,0)

[chrysek]

$dll(sage.dll, 5,1,)
does display channel number and station name for recording on capture device #1
$dll(sage.dll, 5,2,) the same thing for capture device 2 and so on..


$dll(sage.dll, 1,1,)
does give you capture device name diplayed, the same thing as above
$dll(sage.dll, 1,2,) for the second device, $dll(sage.dll, 1,3,) for the third and so on.

$dll(sage.dll, 6,1,) will give you what time and date recording started on particular capture device.

$dll(sage.dll, 7,1,) I think is the duration of recording on that particular device.

I think this is what I've tried

Chris

[turak]

I'm having a problem with the smartie plugin. If tuner 1 is currently recording something then the show name for tuner 2 is $dll(sage.dll,2,2,). If tuner 1 is not currently recording anything then the show name for tuner 2 is $dll(sage.dll,3,2).

[AndersNolberger]

Try to connect with Telnet to the External status plugin and report what you get from it.

[turak]

Recording Nothing:

now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_0_show:
recording_0_episode:
recording_0_chan:
recording_0_starttime:
recording_0_endtime:

recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_1_show:
recording_1_episode:
recording_1_chan:
recording_1_starttime:
recording_1_endtime:


now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_0_show:
recording_0_episode:
recording_0_chan:
recording_0_starttime:
recording_0_endtime:

recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_1_show:
recording_1_episode:
recording_1_chan:
recording_1_starttime:
recording_1_endtime:

Recording 1 show:

now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_0_show:
recording_0_episode:
recording_0_chan:
recording_0_starttime:
recording_0_endtime:

recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_2_show: Monster House
recording_2_episode: Golf House
recording_2_chan: 19 - DSC
recording_2_starttime: 1108429200000
recording_2_endtime: 1108432800000

now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_0_show:
recording_0_episode:
recording_0_chan:
recording_0_starttime:
recording_0_endtime:

recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_2_show: Monster House
recording_2_episode: Golf House
recording_2_chan: 19 - DSC
recording_2_starttime: 1108429200000
recording_2_endtime: 1108432800000

Recording 2 shows:

now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_1_show: Gattaca
recording_1_episode:
recording_1_chan: 26 - HBO
recording_1_starttime: 1108425600000
recording_1_endtime: 1108432800000
recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_2_show: Monster House
recording_2_episode: Golf House
recording_2_chan: 19 - DSC
recording_2_starttime: 1108429200000
recording_2_endtime: 1108432800000

now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_1_show: Gattaca
recording_1_episode:
recording_1_chan: 26 - HBO
recording_1_starttime: 1108425600000
recording_1_endtime: 1108432800000
recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_2_show: Monster House
recording_2_episode: Golf House
recording_2_chan: 19 - DSC
recording_2_starttime: 1108429200000
recording_2_endtime: 1108432800000

[turak]

Are you parsing the data by line? It looks like it doesn't put an extra CR/LF after endtime if it's recording something.

[nielm]

Sorry -- 2 problems...
1) looks like I cannot count!

recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_0_show:
[...]
recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_2_show: Monster House

and 2) the extra blank line is an 'end of data' marker that should not be there...

I claim clemancy because I only had one tuner when I wrote the plugin... I will upload a new version asap , but I cannot test it, because my server died last night!

New version uploaded... Can you check if it gives the right output (correct tner numbers and no blank lines in the data) please...

[AndersNolberger]

Ok, I wait for your changes and then turak can test again to see if my plugin works or not. I only have one tuner so I cant test multiple recordings.

I hope you get your server up without to much loss of data.

[turak]

That did the trick. Thanks for the quick response and fix. Now I just need to figure out how to setup my actions so that if either tuner is recording then show the currently recording screen.


now_playing_type: nothing
now_playing_show:
now_playing_episode:
now_playing_artist:
now_playing_channel:
now_playing_starttime:
now_playing_endtime:
now_playing_currpos:
now_playing_state: stopped
num_recording_devs: 2
recording_1_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture #2
recording_1_show: That '70s Show
recording_1_episode: Eric Gets Suspended
recording_1_chan: 16 - WPSG
recording_1_starttime: 1108510200000
recording_1_endtime: 1108512000000
recording_2_dev: Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture
recording_2_show: Stargate SG-1
recording_2_episode: Prometheus
recording_2_chan: 58 - SCIFI
recording_2_starttime: 1108508400000
recording_2_endtime: 1108512000000

[Crashless]

I have two actions to do that:

$dll(sage.dll,2,1,) = <blank> then DisableScreen(4)
$dll(sage.dll,2,1,) <> <blank> then EnableScreen(4)


The <blank> is actually blank. I put nothing in the field. Make sense?

[turak]

That would work for a single tuner, but it gets a lbit more complicated with more then one. Right now I'm trying to figure out if you can use a and/or operator like && or || in the statement. I'm also trying to figure out if you can use math.

examples of what I'm trying:

if $dll(sage.dll,1,1,1) || $dll(sage.dll,1,2,1) = 1 then gotoscreen(3)

or maybe:
if $dll(sage.dll,1,1,1) + $dll(sage.dll,1,2,1) >= 1 then gotoscreen(3)


My final goal is to have it setup so that if I'm watching something it will show the current show info. If I'm not watching something, but it's recording something then show what it's recording. If it's recording nothing and I'm watching nothing then show the current date/time.

[abanytime]

Anders' page seems to be down right now (unless it's me). Anybody know if this is available elsewhere? All the links seem to point to his page.

Thanks for any info.

[AndersNolberger]

My broadband modem has given up. I have a new one waiting for me at the post office so hopefully it will be up tomorrow again. At leat I hope so becouse I MUST have better Internet connection then a modem this weekend!

[abanytime]

Good luck with that and thanks for the update.

- AB

[gongzero]

It seems that the link for the plugin is still down. I've tried searching via Google for a download mirror, but to no avail.

If anyone can PM me with a copy of this plugin, I'd be happy to mirror it!


-A