BackupSettings for Tv Server and Media Portal (7 Viewers)

[huha]

mbb, thanks for the reports.
your issue 2) is a bug which i will fix with the next version (due to date conversion)
your schedules (issue 4) did not get imported because the start date was in the past. With version 0.0.1.1 all schedules are getting imported.
I will look at the other issues soon.

 

[flokel]

Hi huha,

could you edit the title of your first post
as your plugin is not just limited to the usage with the TvServer ?

 

[Swede]

Hi Huha! Tested 0.0.1.1. Shedules look OK in Tvserver setup, but in MP they are gone. So I guess it needs some more work.
Also it would be nice if channel mappings in Xmltv plugin were saved/restored

 

[SwissBuster]

A truely fantastic time saver of a plugin - Thanks.

I used this for the first time today with the RC4 install. It worked almost flawlessly. The only issues I could find were:
1. The LNB setup under TV server config was lost (I have a four LNB satelite).
2. CAM was not activated for my TV card under TV server config, so I lost encrypted channels until I spotted this.
3. Music visualisation files were not copied (C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\MusicPlayer\plugins\visualizations).
There were a couple of other issues with the install, but these were related to my choice of the new blue3 wide skin.

All in all, this saved a huge amount of time. Other than these minor things, everything was copied perfectly with no tweaking needed. For anyone who wants to try this, my process was to backup settings from the existing setup first, then install the newest release. Go into TV server config. first and activate Backupsettings under plugins (plus other plugins while you're there). Hit Import (ignore the request to backup settings first). This takes a while - maybe about ten minutes in my case - so be patient. Thats it!

 

[Tomchieur]

Hopefully I could get some help with a (certainly) small problem I have actually to update my version 0.0.0.3 to the actual version of backupsettings.

I cannot delete the old dll-file in the plugin directory. When I try to replace it by the new version I always get an error message that says that the backupsettings.dll is actually in use and cannot be overwritten by the new one.

I'm sure that my problem is a simple Windows problem but I need someone who can tell me how to do right.

Thanks in advance for your help

Kind regards
Tomchieur

 

[petsa]

Hi Tomchieur,

Have you made sure that TV Server is not running when you try to do this? That could be the cause.

/Peter

 

[Tomchieur]

Peter, you were right with your proposual.
When I stopped the TV server there was no problem to delete the old version.

Thank you

 

[petsa]

Glad it worked

 

[huha]

testversion 0.0.1.2

mbb,
I have attached a new version 0.0.1.2, which contains a new algorithm for mapping cards from the .xml file to the actual configuration of the TV server. I hope this will fix your issue 1). The algorithm works as follows.
a) first it tries to map all cards between Tv server and the backed up .xml file, which have identical id number, card name and device path
b) second it tries to match all cards between Tv server and the backed up .xml file, which have identical id number and card name
c) third it tries to match all cards between Tv server and the backed up .xml file, which have identical card name and device path
d) fourth it tries to match all cards, which have identical card names

It also corrects the date conversion issue 2). Your item 4 should be fixed by the previous version already. I am afraid I cannot help on your issue 3) as I do not have DVB-T. I also do not understand how you can directly access the channel number with the remote. My understanding was that the remote control number was determined by the position and sortorder of the channel within the group. As you have only one group (all channels) defined, the position within that group will determine the channel number on the remote.

In version 0.0.1.2 I also included an option in the duplicate channel section to remove duplicate channel members from groups. Please give me a feedback if it works. Then i will fully release it.


Swede,
can you give me more information of what happened?
Did the exception happen during the use of Backupsetting import or export?
If backupsetting completed, where there any warning or error messages during import?
Did you have a TV client or Media portal running during import?
The exception message indicates that there is conflicting process access.
Did you have other plugins enabled when the issue occurred?

I realized a similar issue during debugging: If a recording is exported and the assigned channel is deleted before the export, then it will cause an exception. I thaught that deleting the channel would automatically also delete assigned schedules or recordings, but it seems not to do so. I need to look closer into the code and do more debugging. More info on your case would greatly help me.

On the xmltv plugin i thaught I would store the channel mappings by exporting the "external id" string, but will debug again.



Swissbuster,
I am confirming that i am not supporting LNB settings. I will need to see how difficult it is.
The MusicPlayer\plugins\visualizations is not supported either, but will be easy to add.
I may need your help on debugging later on for the Cam settings as i do not have one.

Greetings, Huha

 

[SwissBuster]

Swissbuster,
I may need your help on debugging later on for the Cam settings as i do not have one.

I'd be happy to help.