- January 3, 2008
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Need Programming Help
cibu, Nickname,
a MediaPortal Gui has been discussed a couple of times, but in order to implement it i do not programming help as I do not have enough time to start a MediaPortal plugin. Over the last 4 months i have prepared the Tv server plugin with a messaging xml file, which would enable an easy communication with a media portal plugin. However i do need help to program such a plugin.
The job would be to create and maintain a Media Portal plugin including a Skin for interacting with the Tvserver plugin
This could consist of:
a) Plugin Configuration: Determine the path (can be a network path) to the Tvserver TvWishList folder
e.g. C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TvWishList
This folder contains the file messages.xml, which lists all found movies and episodes as well as conflicts
This path could be derived also from the actual TV plugin configuration.
b) create a user friendly interface (easy mode and expert mode) to input/modify the data from the main screen of the Tv server
plugin. The interface to the Tv server database can be done via Loadsettings and savesettings routines, which could be partially copied from the plugin source code. The tv server EPG search could be triggered by creating a file StartEPGsearch.txt in the
TvWishList folder.
c) list the found shows from the messages .xml file in a table including description, channel, start and stop times. Different sort criteria (date, name, ...) could be implemented
In a second step the plugin could be extended towards a personal TV guide based on a simple interface creating a SQL query for
tasks like
"What is displayed now with genre drama?"
"What star rating >3 is displayed within the next 5 hours?"
"What science fictions are shown today?"
...
This would be also a good project for someone to get started with MediaPortal programming. Please send me a message if you are interested in helping here.
nickname, your item 2 can be done in one of the next versions
cibu, Nickname,
a MediaPortal Gui has been discussed a couple of times, but in order to implement it i do not programming help as I do not have enough time to start a MediaPortal plugin. Over the last 4 months i have prepared the Tv server plugin with a messaging xml file, which would enable an easy communication with a media portal plugin. However i do need help to program such a plugin.
The job would be to create and maintain a Media Portal plugin including a Skin for interacting with the Tvserver plugin
This could consist of:
a) Plugin Configuration: Determine the path (can be a network path) to the Tvserver TvWishList folder
e.g. C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\TvWishList
This folder contains the file messages.xml, which lists all found movies and episodes as well as conflicts
This path could be derived also from the actual TV plugin configuration.
b) create a user friendly interface (easy mode and expert mode) to input/modify the data from the main screen of the Tv server
plugin. The interface to the Tv server database can be done via Loadsettings and savesettings routines, which could be partially copied from the plugin source code. The tv server EPG search could be triggered by creating a file StartEPGsearch.txt in the
TvWishList folder.
c) list the found shows from the messages .xml file in a table including description, channel, start and stop times. Different sort criteria (date, name, ...) could be implemented
In a second step the plugin could be extended towards a personal TV guide based on a simple interface creating a SQL query for
tasks like
"What is displayed now with genre drama?"
"What star rating >3 is displayed within the next 5 hours?"
"What science fictions are shown today?"
...
This would be also a good project for someone to get started with MediaPortal programming. Please send me a message if you are interested in helping here.
nickname, your item 2 can be done in one of the next versions