count of active users (2 Viewers)

[iancalderban]

how about adding a "help the mediaportal project - report on your MP usage" install- or configure-time option to a new version of MP itself? opt-out by default for privacy reasons. when enabled, it sends some small file to MP project server each time MP starts or when running. Just use the server logs to count the IP addresses that upload said file to server, you don't even have to put anything meaningful in the file.

Ian

 

[Iwen]

AW: count of active users

Today I was observing my network with wireshark while starting MediaPortal (wanted to see the MagicPacket which should start the server). I was surprised by that line:

Source--------------------Destination--------Protocol-----Info
192.168.178.100-------188.40.65.250----HTTP---------GET /index2.php?option=com_rss&feed=RSS1.0&no_html=1 HTTP/1.1

The source IP is my client, the destination a website with the text "It works".
I was wondering why/what this does? Any idea?
The infoservice plugin maybe?

If such a get method would start when you install MP and increase a online counter (decrease when uninstall) we would have a nice user counter (privacy problems? maybe with a tick box to allow/disallow)

 

[admin]

thats the infoservice-plugin, just grabbing the rss-feed from our homepage:
MediaPortal Newsfeed