*ORIGINAL THREAD* InfoService v1.6 - Feed reader/Twitter reader and weather (4 Viewers)

[edsche]

Hi edsche,

First off: Great plugin!
I'm using cul8ers X-Factor skin (R219) and your mpinfoservice (v0.6) and I've got a small question.
One of the screenshots on the startpage of this thread is showing a menu in which you can switch between your feeds.
Now my question is: is there a designated button on the remote control to popup that menu? (I'm using a standard MCE remote)

No, you must add a button to your basichome.xml. See first post how to do that. Don't know why cul8er didn't add the button.

 

[50u1r34v3r]

Hi edsche,

First off: Great plugin!
I'm using cul8ers X-Factor skin (R219) and your mpinfoservice (v0.6) and I've got a small question.
One of the screenshots on the startpage of this thread is showing a menu in which you can switch between your feeds.
Now my question is: is there a designated button on the remote control to popup that menu? (I'm using a standard MCE remote)

No, you must add a button to your basichome.xml. See first post how to do that. Don't know why cul8ter didn't add the button.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Ah I see, my mistake.
cul8er might have added it to basichome but I changed my basichome using his home-editor before I got started, so if he did I didn't see it.

Gonna check your 1st post to see if I can get that menu to pop up

again

 

[bloasfist]

Feature request

edsche: You say in this post of https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/rss-ticker-43603/index14.html#post427941 you're planning on adding a feature where one can click on the news items and get the actual contents.

The MP built-in plugin 'RSS news' is a window plugin which already retrieves the contents; it just doesn't present them as rss-ticker/mpinforservice does. I guess the easiest way to add the feature is to somehow direct to the rssnews plugin when clicking on a news item from mpinfoservice.

I will be adding support for Black & White 1080p - MediaPortal Forum . Hang on...

 

[catavolt]

Hi edsche,

for this valuable and well functioning plugin! Please find enclosed the xml for PureVision skins.
Just fixed it for the direct call of the news plugin. You have to enable the news plugin in MPconfig.
Than you may just scroll down until the feed image is highlighted to change the feed or scroll down once more until the rss feed is highlighted. Pressing OK or left click leads you to the news screen, where you can read the whole text.
Hope you enjoy it.

 

[pirlone]

@catavolt

how have you solved this problem below? if I understand well you had same prob as i have with rss ticker plugin...

tia,
pirlone

hi all!

I have a problem with news ticker in this plugin in combination with X-Factor skin (https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/x-factor-316/about-x-factor-skin-52806/). after there is last news item shown in scroll line and when the ticker should start from beginning, it freezes mediaportal.
in mediaportal.log there is infinite loop of this error (repeating endlessly) and i have to manually kill mediaportal process because it doesn't react to remote control anymore:

2009-05-25 18:36:31.012774 [Info.][MPMain]: Exception   :Error in the application.
-2005530516 (D3DERR_INVALIDCALL)
   at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.BeginScene()
   at MediaPortalApp.Render(Single timePassed)
2009-05-25 18:36:31.012774 [Info.][MPMain]: Exception   :Error in the application.
2009-05-25 18:36:31.013774 [Info.][MPMain]:   site      :Void BeginScene()
2009-05-25 18:36:31.013774 [Info.][MPMain]:   source    :Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D
2009-05-25 18:36:31.013774 [Info.][MPMain]:   stacktrace:   at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Device.BeginScene()
   at MediaPortalApp.Render(Single timePassed)

i have latest mp installation (1.0.2) and had same sympthoms with RSS-ticker plugin too.

i haven't changed original basichome.xml which comes with x-factor installation.

i noticed another thing also: scrolling of news is very jumpy. that means it isn't fluid like other horizontal scrolling elsewhere in mp. don't know if this is skin specific problem or not. tried to find an answer in skin thread but no luck yet.

tia,
pirlone

PS: copy&paste from log is old, but it is always the same ...

 

[catavolt]

Well, pirlone, I think you have the following problem:
1. You still have installed AND enabled the MPRSS-Ticker plugin.
2. The X-Face BasicHome is NOT prepared for the latest version 0.6 of this plugin (changed #rssfeed to #feedtitles and #rssimg to #feedimg).

Solution:
1. Deactivate (or better uninstall/delete) the MP-RSSTicker from your plugins\process directory.
2. Make sure you have a xml working with the version 0.6 of this plugin. If you know how to change xmls you may adapt my xml to x-face.

Hope that you`ll achieve your goals and have a nice RSS- and Weather weekend with a forecast of good weather

 

[pirlone]

catavolt

tnx for your reply, but it's not that... i deleted MP-RSSticker plugin and modified basichome.xml to fit new infoservice plugin...
strange thing is that i can't get fluid caps font to show in ticker neither, even with fonts regulary installed, fonts.xml seems ok and basichome.xml with reference to font too...

the other thing is that i have the same prob on two diff systems - Vista (server+client) and Windows7 (client)...

tnx anyway,
pirlone

 

[edsche]

@catavolt

tnx for your reply, but it's not that... i deleted MP-RSSticker plugin and modified basichome.xml to fit new infoservice plugin...
strange thing is that i can't get fluid caps font to show in ticker neither, even with fonts regulary installed, fonts.xml seems ok and basichome.xml with reference to font too...

the other thing is that i have the same prob on two diff systems - Vista (server+client) and Windows7 (client)...

tnx anyway,
pirlone

Mh, i have no problems on xp and vista neigther with mp-rssticker. How about drivers and directx ? be sure that you have the newest one.

@all: I've upload a new version with the possibility to read feeds. Take a look at the changelog in the first post. You must add a city in the plugin configuration now, as the plugin has now it's own config for weather.

 

[catavolt]

OMG - you´re much faster than lightning! I was just satisfied with the skin solution I supplied - and now I may have to begin again.... Hmphhh...
But I like this plugin and therefore a big

 

[edsche]

Sorry for that :/ But its not much work to skin if you have already skinned the MyRSS plugin. infoservice.xml and myrss.xml are nearly the same files.

Anyway thanks