Enable TV/Radio in client for debug build (1 Viewer)

[Stéphane Lenclud]

Hi,

I would like to enable TV/Radio in my debug build. How do I do that?
When I run the configuration the TV/Radio section is missing.

Cheers,
S.

 

[mm1352000]

You have to have installed the TV plugin in order for it to be available. This can be done by installing as standalone rather than client only, or by manually copying the required DLLs into the required locations.

mm

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

I'm debugging from the VS solution. How do I build the TV plugin and have it output its binaries in that bin\debug folder?
Is it a different git repository?[DOUBLEPOST=1393492723][/DOUBLEPOST]Now that I think of it the binaries might be there already and I just need to enable the plugin through the configuration. I'll have to check that.

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

Can't find it in the plugin list so I guess it needs to be built and installed somehow.

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

Ok, I did manage to build it but copying all the binaries from TvPlugin into bin\Debug did not seem to make that plugin appear in my configure.
Help appreciated @Developers anyone?

 

[arion_p]

In TVEngine3\TVLibrary there are two batch files that do the necessary copies:

Collect Debug Files.bat
and
Copy TvPluginDebug To MP Debug.bat

You have to run both in that order.
I don't know if they are still up to date, but some time ago that i used them it worked OK.

 

[Sebastiii]

OH
That's real nice info
I was always build and copy files on program files folder and run from that.
ofc we always need to do that for debug tvservice but with above information, it works for TVPlugins.

Thanks Arion

The "Copy Filters To MP Debug & Register.bat" is surely not up to date lol.

So i confirm it works and i do the following.

1- Install a working version of MP with TVServer. (so Mysql etc. should be working with MP and TV as normal)
2- build MP solution release/debug
3- build Tvlibrary/tvplugins debug
4- execute both batch like explain Arion.

And we have all files in local GIT and we can debug from their

off topic, on TVE35, if all tvserver is build, build MP solution will copy all needed files in auto and with tve35 we can start tvservice as command line (so from git local repo

 

[Marcus Venturi]

I never copy files.

If I want to debug a plugin, that is not contained in MediaPortal I just create symbolic links from the output directory of that project into the MediaPortal plugin directory. Through the symbolic link the file is always up to date, because the symbolic link always points to the original file.

And if you often have to change configuration, creating a symbolic link is way faster then writing batch files.

There is a tool for easy creating symbolic links from the Windows Explorer.

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

@Sebastii: There is even a page in French: http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension_fr.html

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

In TVEngine3\TVLibrary there are two batch files that do the necessary copies:

Collect Debug Files.bat
and
Copy TvPluginDebug To MP Debug.bat

You have to run both in that order.
I don't know if they are still up to date, but some time ago that i used them it worked OK.

This seems to be broken now.

 

[Sebastiii]

It's working for me
I have also added locally batch for release version