Developing TvServer plugins

frodo · 2006-10-23, 16:50

read more about how to develop TvServer plugins in the wiki

TV-Server Development/tv-server plugins guide - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

and here:
TV-Server Development/tv-server plugin events - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation

joboehl · 2006-10-23, 22:59

Quote:

Originally Posted by frodo

read more about how to develop TvServer plugins in the wiki

http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/TV-...vserverplugins

I saw the plugin support code in SVN today and could not beleive. Man, that was much sooner than I was expecting.

I would be happy if this could happen before next year and now is already there. Amazing.

Congratulations (again) frodo.

BTW: Are you planning to implement some kind of messaging so plug-ins can react to the tvserver (like channel change)?

frodo · 2006-10-24, 06:05

Quote:

BTW: Are you planning to implement some kind of messaging so plug-ins can react to the tvserver (like channel change)?

Yes, that's mising right now, but its the next thing todo

joboehl · 2006-10-24, 12:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by frodo

Quote:

BTW: Are you planning to implement some kind of messaging so plug-ins can react to the tvserver (like channel change)?

Yes, that's mising right now, but its the next thing todo

Man, amazing. Will get working on Myblaster right now.

Congrats, once again.

JUlio

frodo · 2006-10-24, 14:01

there is a new section in the wiki explaining how to subscribe to
tvserver events

Frodo

joboehl · 2006-10-27, 20:50

Frodo, only saw your response now. Thanks a lot for this.

Will propably have something working this weekend in regards of MCE Blasting.

Julio

joboehl · 2006-10-28, 06:55

Hi Frodo,

I almost got the blasting working, but I whant to ask for you advice before I go on.

In the EventArgs class that contains the information for the event, there is no channel number information in the IChannel object, besides the one inside the string returned by the ToString() method.

I understand that the IChannel object for the AnalogCards do have that information, but I can't (at least don't know how) access this properties in the eventArg.

Do you think parsing the textstring looking for the channel number is the way to go or the interfaces/properties are subject to change?

Please keep in mind that I started coding for .Net not very long ago, so if I'am making some mistake, please let me know.

Thanks for your help.

Julio

frodo · 2006-10-28, 07:51

IChannel is an generic interface
To see if its an analog channel try this:

Code:

AnalogChannel analogChannel=ichannelInterface as AnalogChannel;
if (analogChannel==null) return;
int channelNumber = analogChannel.ChannelNumber;

joboehl · 2006-10-29, 03:22

Frodo,

Thanks a lot for the help. I managed to port the myblaster plug-in and now I can put the tvserver with the stb in the basement if I want (not that I have one)

. I'll clean the code up and share later this week.

wanna take the opportunity to tell that the structure of this new engine seems much better than the older one. From the controller design to the classes. Seems much more flexible. Good job.

And altough i did encountered some problems in my initial testing (expected), the performance and quality of the streaming really impressed me. I was able to stream to 3 machines over wireless, that's almost impossible with MCE for example.

Once again, congratulations.

Julio

2006-10-23, 16:50	#1 (permalink)
frodo Portal Developer Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Netherlands Age: 36 Posts: 1,515 Thanks: 3 Thanked 119 Times in 44 Posts Country: My System	Developing TvServer plugins read more about how to develop TvServer plugins in the wiki TV-Server Development/tv-server plugins guide - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation and here: TV-Server Development/tv-server plugin events - MediaPortal Wiki Documentation Last edited by charli181; 2008-03-07 at 01:11. Reason: Updated URL's 7 Mar 08

2006-10-28, 07:51	#8 (permalink)
frodo Portal Developer Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Netherlands Age: 36 Posts: 1,515 Thanks: 3 Thanked 119 Times in 44 Posts Country: My System	IChannel is an generic interface To see if its an analog channel try this: Code: AnalogChannel analogChannel=ichannelInterface as AnalogChannel; if (analogChannel==null) return; int channelNumber = analogChannel.ChannelNumber;

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