Self Contained Web Server / Interface

[petsa]

Hi!

Thanks for the tips Derek.

Kev, perhaps an idea would be to store the logos in a separate directory to avoid them cluttering the installation directory. Perhaps even point to the MP installation? This could be an option in the config utility.

/Peter

[jarod]

Hi,
it's me again. *gg*

I installed the new version and everything works fine.
I have test the PDA version too and everything is shown correct.

Only one question: Where do you get the order of the TV channels?

The new TV Engine has two lists. The first all channels the order is not important i think and the second in my case "Alle Kanäle -> all channels" here is the order of the EPG in Mediaportal important. Is this correct?

mfg jarod

[mcraenz]

Hi Kev,

couple of Q's:

1. I installed the webinterface on my laptop and the sql server (tv3 server) is on a different pc. Should it work? I created and tested the user remotely with MSSQL 2k5 Man Studio all ok. But when I try to logon to the WI it throws: "The TV Server database is currently unavailable.
Please try again later"

2.Is this software open source?

Keep up the good work

mcraenz

[mruane]

Geez Kev - you have doing a great job with this - and in a very short time. So, thanks from across the ditch. This is filling a real gap.

Is it too early yet to give some thought to prettying up the user interface, or is that something we do ourselves using the HTML options in the config program?

I also had a similar question regarding channel ordering in the display, but once I sorted the main channel listing in the TV Server Config program it all came out sorted as I wanted it.

Cheers Mike

[Sh4nn0w]

Think in mine I sorted All Channels to show in the order I wanted, then I also sorted the individual channel groups to get them in the order I wanted.

[rr69]

I tested the pda profile, and it looks great...

Main menu OK!
TVGuide OK!
Recorded programs OK!

I found the following glitches:

The loginscreen doesn't fit, it's just a litte bit too wide. the maximum width of most pda's (in pixels) is: 240 Hight: 320 so the maximum width of the table should not exceed 240. Hight is not important for me.

The Keyword search screen is also a little bit too wide.

The Recording Schedule is not ok. It is still showing in normal pc configuration. (generated content, I can't change this)

When im at home this evening i will try to tweak "the keyword search" and the "Login Screen" html files so it wil fit in every configuration..


Greetz RR69..

[Sebzap]

Great tool, thanks, but setting up recordings does not work for me yet: when I hit "Add to Schedule" it redirects me to http://server:8080/addrec, which is blank. When I check for scheduled programmings the list ist empty.

It's the same in IE and Firefox. I am using MySQL.
Latest versions of TV Engine & Mediaportal.

Anyway I can debug this? Anyone knows what goes wrong? Thanks!

Regards Sebastian

[Big_Kev]

Another new version - sorry for all the updates, but I have small amounts of time to work on this and I dont know when I can get back to it, so I post as I go.

Whats New:

1. Changed the width of the standard login page to suit PDA / Normal
2. Added a PDA friendly version of the scheduled recordings
3. Added a PDA friendly version of the keyword search page
4. Added Logo Mapping - you can now map logos to TV channels in the Manager on the "Logos" tab. Click "reset" to load all of the available channels into the grid, then click in the "Logo" column to add a logo. This creates a directory called "thumbs" inside the app directory and saves the png files in the form of channel ID.png where channel ID is the ID number of the channel. I don't want to allow paths outside the application directory to be served (i.e. say the mediaportal thumbs\tv\logos directory) to maintain security, so this is a more secure compromise.
5. Now uses the group channel sort order if you are displaying a group of channels.

Documentation updated to include logo mapping details.

Regards
Kev

[Big_Kev]

Slight change in the insert procedure to the schedule file to try and eliminate problems adding recordings...

If you have already installed version 0.1.0.2, just use the upgrade link instead... it does not reinstall all of the HTML pages.

Try this if you are having problems adding recordings to the schedule.

Please let me know if it fixes the problem. As I don't have the problem, I can only guess as to what it might be.

In relation to open source... I have not ever ran an open source project, and I don't really know where to start. I would be prepared to look at it, but I know that I will want to clean up the code a lot first!!! (and put a lot more comments in!).

The application is written in C++ and uses a number of my own and other propriety components, so I will have to find open-source replacements for these.

For the future I think.

Regards
Kev

[KRA]

I get access violation in mpwebmgr.exe when I hit save.

And I get "The TV Server database is currently unavailable.
Please try again later" when I try to log in.

EDIT:
Could someone with a working setup post the content of MPWebSvr.ini (just remove the passwords) Because I don't think the server settings are saved, at least I can't find anything about it in the ini file.