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Thanks valdi and rlongfield. I'll get something out as quick as I can. I'm in the middle of spring chores right now, so it's hard to get any time programming. I also have to put up my antenna this weekend (I've been doing all my testing in my workshop), so I'm a bit stuck for time at the moment.
I've been an engineer/programmer my whole life and have worked in quite a few languages. It's nice to have an opportunity to learn a new language (such as Python), but time becomes the issue.
I'm glad to hear that MP is at least pretty stable. When one is doing testing, one doesn't sit and watch entire movies so it's hard to get a feel for reliability. I've had MP hang as a zombied process quite a few times, but I write it off to playing around with settings too much.
Valdi, you mention Rogers. We're on Rogers too (I live just outside of Waterloo) and I've been trying to get off of cable. Unfortunately I have no options right now to have my cable Internet service moved elsewhere as no one seems to have a 3rd-party contract to provide cable Internet services in my area (and DSL is just too slow). I've gone to VOIP phone and should hopefully get rid of cable TV within the next couple of months. I have nothing against Rogers per se, they provide excellent service, but with my son's cell phone plan, I'm making a "car payment" to Rogers every month and it's just gone over the top. We've also had issues in the past with getting $200+ added to our bill because my son went over his text-messaging limit. It seems that kids simply can't stop when they get a warning about hitting a limit. To save money you either take away their phone (a fate worse than death) or give them a virtually unlimited plan.
I thought of a couple of refinements for the TV Rotator Plugin that I'd like to add so I'll try to get started on those during the week. For a first "testing cut", I probably won't add a set-up screen to the plugin (GUI screens take a fair bit of time), I'll just release a sample xml file that you can modify for your channels.
Have a great weekend!
I've been an engineer/programmer my whole life and have worked in quite a few languages. It's nice to have an opportunity to learn a new language (such as Python), but time becomes the issue.
I'm glad to hear that MP is at least pretty stable. When one is doing testing, one doesn't sit and watch entire movies so it's hard to get a feel for reliability. I've had MP hang as a zombied process quite a few times, but I write it off to playing around with settings too much.
Valdi, you mention Rogers. We're on Rogers too (I live just outside of Waterloo) and I've been trying to get off of cable. Unfortunately I have no options right now to have my cable Internet service moved elsewhere as no one seems to have a 3rd-party contract to provide cable Internet services in my area (and DSL is just too slow). I've gone to VOIP phone and should hopefully get rid of cable TV within the next couple of months. I have nothing against Rogers per se, they provide excellent service, but with my son's cell phone plan, I'm making a "car payment" to Rogers every month and it's just gone over the top. We've also had issues in the past with getting $200+ added to our bill because my son went over his text-messaging limit. It seems that kids simply can't stop when they get a warning about hitting a limit. To save money you either take away their phone (a fate worse than death) or give them a virtually unlimited plan.
I thought of a couple of refinements for the TV Rotator Plugin that I'd like to add so I'll try to get started on those during the week. For a first "testing cut", I probably won't add a set-up screen to the plugin (GUI screens take a fair bit of time), I'll just release a sample xml file that you can modify for your channels.
Have a great weekend!