FrontView+ [for Windows]iMon replacement, NowPlaying 2nd Screen

[Teddyknuddel 132]

2 hours ago, GlennNZ said:

 

Hi Teddy,

I’m glad you are enjoying your usage!   I personally have moved to more streaming devices/appleTV so FV+ isn’t used as often.  I would love to have a plugin for appleTV for FV+, and there is a great python library that exists - pyatv -  (unfortunately only in python it would seem).   Toyed with combo of it and c which may re jig my interest.

I haven’t touched the FV+ code for some time - but you still may be a version or 2 behind.

Check here:
https://github.com/Ghawken/FrontView/releases

I haven’t always updated various formats given the various plugins - not sure the last post here.   They are all backward compatible as far as I know.

New Atmos/Other support was added a while back
[image]https://github.com/Ghawken/FrontView/blob/master/FrontView/Images/AvengersMediaIconsMatrix.png?raw=true[image]

Check you are on correct version.
Also check have Weather setup - I think your screenshots are missing that?

As to other requests:
Issue is a lot of (at least) past users have very low resolution screens - currently we support all, which leads to some choices, need for UI selection if not likely to work on a 640x480 screen.
Probably most are doable  - issue is UI to select/unselect options is limited and also time consuming to construct, this would be needed for those that don’t make sense on a smaller screen.
I’ll see what seems doable, a first guess the remaining time should be doable,   The stats instead of time - probably not, we don’t get that info anyway, could look at removing time, but if weather set up typically get weather icon as option I seem to recall, see if you are setup.   I believe the current weather provider is still working?  I’ll check that as well.

No timeframe from me - but check out the new versions - they may have some of what your are missing already.

 

Glenn

 

 

Hello Glenn, 

I have been using version 1.340 for a long time. It may be that Atmos is displayed, the icons are often not clearly visible because of the background, DTS-HD and TrueHD icons definitely are. As well as 4K. The only thing missing is Dolby Vision.

I once integrated Disney+ into Kodi. FV+ ran perfectly with it. But unfortunately the Disney addon was not stable. I liked that I could also see the timeline. And that you could see what was currently playing based on the background image. But since it wasn't stable, I went back to the regular app.

Yes, weather - I also saw that you can set that up. But just like I wrote about the time. You now have everything on your cell phone or tablet. And I can also see the current weather by looking out the window. 

The statistics for nerds, bitrate for image and sound are now not a "must have" only "nice to have". In any case, remaining time would be much nicer if you could choose that. I used to have a Zidoo Android Box that had its own display for the time, so you could set the remaining time. But with the Zidoo you can only adjust the frame rate with an external player, not with the internal player. And external players like VLC & Co. do not transmit time to FV+. That's why I switched from Zidoo to Nvidia Shield.

It would be nice if you could set it up again in Emby itself. Even nicer if Plex could also be used. But I assume that Plex developers don't like to allow other programs to be connected, which would probably make the connection to FV+ quite difficult. What is important to me is that I can still use FV+. As you can see from my pictures, I would have to completely rebuild my board. Which I don't want, since I've invested some time (and money) there.

Greeting,
Teddy

 

 

Edited May 25, 2024 by Teddyknuddel

[GlennNZ 92]

On 25/05/2024 at 17:05, Teddyknuddel said:

Hello Glenn, 

I have been using version 1.340 for a long time. It may be that Atmos is displayed, the icons are often not clearly visible because of the background, DTS-HD and TrueHD icons definitely are. As well as 4K. The only thing missing is Dolby Vision.

I once integrated Disney+ into Kodi. FV+ ran perfectly with it. But unfortunately the Disney addon was not stable. I liked that I could also see the timeline. And that you could see what was currently playing based on the background image. But since it wasn't stable, I went back to the regular app.

Yes, weather - I also saw that you can set that up. But just like I wrote about the time. You now have everything on your cell phone or tablet. And I can also see the current weather by looking out the window. 

The statistics for nerds, bitrate for image and sound are now not a "must have" only "nice to have". In any case, remaining time would be much nicer if you could choose that. I used to have a Zidoo Android Box that had its own display for the time, so you could set the remaining time. But with the Zidoo you can only adjust the frame rate with an external player, not with the internal player. And external players like VLC & Co. do not transmit time to FV+. That's why I switched from Zidoo to Nvidia Shield.

It would be nice if you could set it up again in Emby itself. Even nicer if Plex could also be used. But I assume that Plex developers don't like to allow other programs to be connected, which would probably make the connection to FV+ quite difficult. What is important to me is that I can still use FV+. As you can see from my pictures, I would have to completely rebuild my board. Which I don't want, since I've invested some time (and money) there.

Greeting,
Teddy

 

 

Hi

Try version 351 just added now, in github

Adds Disable Clock
Add selection option from Remaining time instead of duration, 2nd option of End Time - time that program will end  (pretty straight forward)
Likely not suit time resolution screens.
The Time size scaler affects this as well.
Save Settings prior to options being visible

&
Re -adds the colour Icons - which may have gone with a version back, 
Few other minor fixes.

Took a while, code is old … not sure up to many more updates/changes.. But here is this….



 

[Teddyknuddel 132]

1 hour ago, GlennNZ said:

Hi

Try version 351 just added now, in github

Adds Disable Clock
Add selection option from Remaining time instead of duration, 2nd option of End Time - time that program will end  (pretty straight forward)
Likely not suit time resolution screens.
The Time size scaler affects this as well.
Save Settings prior to options being visible

&
Re -adds the colour Icons - which may have gone with a version back, 
Few other minor fixes.

Took a while, code is old … not sure up to many more updates/changes.. But here is this….



 

I have just installed it, but the remaining time is not displayed despite activation. Do I have to change something somewhere? I also can't find anywhere where I can deactivate the time

Edit: After restarting the Frontview computer it is there. This probably only works with an absolute clean install. I LOVE IT!!!

Edited June 2, 2024 by Teddyknuddel

[GlennNZ 92]

24 minutes ago, Teddyknuddel said:

I have just installed it, but the remaining time is not displayed despite activation. Do I have to change something somewhere? I also can't find anywhere where I can deactivate the time

Edit: After restarting the Frontview computer it is there. This probably only works with an absolute clean install. I LOVE IT!!!

Well that was a quick reply!  I glad I posted!

Need to Save Settings, but should come and go with selection/deselection (provided Save Settings) and does on my testing.  Probably you didn’t save it first time?

Anyway - glad its all going well now!

The time is in the Other settings page - not the Now Playing settings page…

Edited June 2, 2024 by GlennNZ

[Teddyknuddel 132]

I had saved it, even several times. As I said, it worked after restarting the FV+ PC. I just assume that the new version used the configuration from the old one. I should also have deleted FV under Appdata/Roaming.

The icons are now also much more visible - great.

 

[Teddyknuddel 132]

@GlennNZ

I have just noticed that only the movies themselves are displayed with remaining time in FV+. TV episodes are still displayed with the usual time as with 1,340. Do I need to set anything else somewhere?

 

[GlennNZ 92]

1 hour ago, Teddyknuddel said:

@GlennNZ

I have just noticed that only the movies themselves are displayed with remaining time in FV+. TV episodes are still displayed with the usual time as with 1,340. Do I need to set anything else somewhere?

 

Yes that is correct.

TV episodes I left alone essentially … pretty easy to add it to TV Now playing screen as well if that is your preference?

[Teddyknuddel 132]

8 hours ago, GlennNZ said:

Yes that is correct.

TV episodes I left alone essentially … pretty easy to add it to TV Now playing screen as well if that is your preference?

Yes, it would be cool if everything else was also displayed with remaining time, not just the movies alone.

[GlennNZ 92]

On 03/06/2024 at 15:48, Teddyknuddel said:

Yes, it would be cool if everything else was also displayed with remaining time, not just the movies alone.

1.352

Up now.

Add Remaining Time and End Time with to TV Now Playing shows.

Also fixes some of the Icon display aspects, remembering that can change the Media Icon sizes.

Glenn

[Teddyknuddel 132]

8 minutes ago, GlennNZ said:

1,352

Add now.

Add remaining time and end time to TV shows now playing.

Also fixes some of the icon display aspects, remembering that you can change the size of the media icons.

Glenn

I LOVE YOU

[Fragensteller 8]

I am also enthusiastic. Gives the whole thing an extra touch. 

But it is disappointing that apparently only members who are not part of the Emby team are involved. When I look at other areas where it hasn't been fixed even after years - it's just sad.

[Teddyknuddel 132]

@GlennNZ

I've just made a small donation to your coffee fund via PayPal

 

 

[Fragensteller 8]

@GlennNZ

Would you be so kind as to adapt the API for the server for FV+? I have the same configuration as Teddyknuddel and would like to continue using this great program. I'm still interested in testing Emby with Premiere.

 

 

Edited June 15, 2024 by Fragensteller

[Luke 40128]

Our developer has submitted a compatibility update for Emby Server 4.8: https://github.com/Ghawken/FrontViewEMBYServerPlugin/pull/1

[GlennNZ 92]

Thanks

I had to modify slightly to manage empty Device Array it would seem, which slowed down release slightly.

But have tested and released to Emby Plugin Store, still not completely sure why the github https thumbnail image remains blank on my testing (but is comestic only…)

Although also caught up and translated this thread, which hadn't seen until now...
 

 

Glenn

 

 

Edited July 16, 2024 by GlennNZ

[Teddyknuddel 132]

8 hours ago, GlennNZ said:

Thanks

I had to modify slightly to manage empty Device Array it would seem, which slowed down release slightly.

But have tested and released to Emby Plugin Store, still not completely sure why the github https thumbnail image remains blank on my testing (but is comestic only…)

Although also caught up and translated this thread, which hadn't seen until now...

Glenn

I've just tested it - it finally seems to work properly again, as it should.

It doesn't work on server 4.7.4.0, but it does on the current server 4.8.8.0 - and that's the main thing.

@GlennNZThanks again - I am absolutely thrilled with your project!