[solved] Newbie - Some Pointers in the Right Direction (1 Viewer)

[ChubbyArse]

Hi All, I'm very new to MP - moving from WMC.

I'd like to create a visual plugin that works a lot like the Movie Guide, displays a coverflow representation of the movies listed in the EPG. I had a dig around the plug in repository and I'm a bit overwhelmed by the amount of (good) stuff there is, so I'd appreciate some pointers to some existing examples of similar component usage. So, scratching the surface I need to know how to:

• Access the EPG data stored and query it for movies / films and then possibly by genre?
• Determine if any returned from above are already set to record
• Initiate a record of an EPG programme (and potentially resolve recording conflicts)

I think I'll be able to figure the presentation aspects from the prior art in the repository (starting simply of course).

Thanks for any help you can give.

 

[Edalex]

Hi.
EPG data is represented by Program class https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1/blob/master/TvEngine3/TVLibrary/TVDatabase/Program.cs
TVbusinessLayer methods are for retrieving EPG data https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...y/TVDatabase/TvBusinessLayer/BusinessLayer.cs

 

[ChubbyArse]

Thanks for the pointers EdAlex.

 

[ChubbyArse]

Could someone point me in the direction of a window plugin that uses EPG data? I've tried adding the TVBusinessLayer to my plugin and consuming it, however it requires the Gentle....dlls as dependencies - which cause a failure when my plugin starts. I'll post the exact logs when I get home later on.

Is the Gentle framework a new addition to MP 1.7? I'm testing my plugin on a MP1.7 pre release install?

Do I have to run epg schedule based stuff in a TVServer plugin and provide data to a windows plugin manually?

Thanks

 

[Edalex]

Yeah, it calls TVPlugin https://github.com/MediaPortal/MediaPortal-1/blob/master/TvEngine3/TVLibrary/TvPlugin/
As I remember, to get it working you need to set config file location by this https://github.com/MediaPortal/Medi...e3/TVLibrary/TvPlugin/TvPlugin/TVHome.cs#L266

 

[ChubbyArse]

Thanks for the link - the TvPlugin was exactly what I was looking for. I couldn't find it cause I assumed it was part of the MediaPortal UI solution.
Between the TvPlugin code and the GUIVideos plugin code - I should have enough now to go on to cobble together something.

The SetGentleCOnfigFile method was what I needed to get it starting up properly.