Pseudo TV for Emby

[TZTZoro 26]

it is not @VicMoore

Nevermind, fixed it it was on my end, it works

Edited May 30, 2024 by TZTZoro

[VicMoore 754]

I made a mistake and left out a couple of classes that make selections possible. The corrected code is below.

 

I am still fixing the problem

 

Vic

 

Edited May 30, 2024 by VicMoore

[new_german_guy 1]

Good work, I like it very much and everything works 

If the bumpers come back now, I'll be happy 

[VicMoore 754]

@new_german_guyI will be enabling bumpers soon.  I just need to finish debugging things.  I broke selecting files and I am fixing it now.

Vic

[new_german_guy 1]

3 minutes ago, VicMoore said:

@new_german_guyI will be enabling bumpers soon.  I just need to finish debugging things.  I broke selecting files and I am fixing it now.

Vic

okay thank you 
 

Is it possible to remove the charging circuit between episodes ? 

I think that could work, because in another plugin(virtualtv), it does not exist.

Then it would be really perfect. 

[VicMoore 754]

@new_german_guywhat is the "charging circuit" between episodes ?

Vic

[new_german_guy 1]

17 minutes ago, VicMoore said:

@new_german_guywhat is the "charging circuit" between episodes ?

Vic

I mean the loading circle. the stream closes briefly and then opens the next video.this change between.

If I have time, I can upload a video later, to explain it better

[bfir3 117]

The GUI is very intuitive. I will have more specific feedback on this as I play with it more. Is there a way to filter on directors/actors/writers? Would love to have a channel for example like Tarantino Movies, Brad Pitt Movies, etc.

[VicMoore 754]

The problem selecting items both by clicking the checkbox or by clicking the image has been fixed.  If you click a folder it will give you the contents of the folder.  Click the checkbox for a folder then it selects the folder.

The corrected code is attached below.  I will give it a through testing tonight. 

Vic

PseudoTV.zip PseudoTV.dll

[VicMoore 754]

@bfir3yes you can search on people.  Use the Formula filter and search on Artists.  

 

Vic

Edited May 30, 2024 by VicMoore

[bfir3 117]

12 minutes ago, VicMoore said:

@bfir3yes you can search on people.  Use the Formula filter and search on Artists.  

 

Vic

Can you share an example? For example I'd like movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, so not items where he's a producer or writer and not a director.

 

Actually I'm guessing since we are querying the emby API from pseudotv I should check the emby documentation about artist queries so I will do that and see if I can figure it out.

 

edit: For example I've tried:

 

And it seems to return every movie in my library:

Edited May 30, 2024 by bfir3

[TZTZoro 26]

@bfir3since you know how to find the console, if you check which querries are created by checking the console log or the network tab(recommened because this is 100% the sent query) in the dev tools you can see what query is being sent, then you can compare it to the swagger docs

but for your case it seems like you need to use person

creating such a query by using
/Items?Recursive=true&Person=Morgan&IncludeItemTypes=Movie
Does also return all items, i think it is a bug from Emby side not much that can be done besides adding manual filtering

When i was playing around with the rest api there were more like this which did not work as expected

Edited May 30, 2024 by TZTZoro

[bfir3 117]

6 hours ago, TZTZoro said:

@bfir3since you know how to find the console, if you check which querries are created by checking the console log or the network tab(recommened because this is 100% the sent query) in the dev tools you can see what query is being sent, then you can compare it to the swagger docs

but for your case it seems like you need to use person

creating such a query by using
/Items?Recursive=true&Person=Morgan&IncludeItemTypes=Movie
Does also return all items, i think it is a bug from Emby side not much that can be done besides adding manual filtering

When i was playing around with the rest api there were more like this which did not work as expected

OK fair enough. Seems like an Emby issue for now then.

By the way, I'm seeing this a lot in the emby log, is it necessary? 

[VicMoore 754]

@bfir3Yes these messages are required by Emby when media is being played. You don't have to log them. I log them so I can see what Emby is doing. 

Vic

[new_german_guy 1]

13 hours ago, new_german_guy said:

I mean the loading circle. the stream closes briefly and then opens the next video.this change between.

If I have time, I can upload a video later, to explain it better

here you see what I mean, maybe you can change that, if not, it's not a big deal 

but there are many things I like more in your plugin

+ rewind function is disabled
+ Skipping to the next episode is blocked

+ it feels like real live TV

+ your gui looks better

+it is easier, to select individual episodes

 

all in all, a very good job

 

record pseudotv.mkv record virtualtv.mkv

Edited May 31, 2024 by new_german_guy

[VicMoore 754]

@new_german_guythanks for the kind words. The TV Platform on which PseudoTV is built was written by @Luke. He plans in the future to enhance this code so that playlists will not be required to force Emby clients to play media at the current time in the EPG, rather than always starting at the beginning of the media.  This will resolve the problem you mentioned above.

We are now working on completing Bumpers.  This code should be completed soon.  If you have suggestions please let us know.

Vic

Edited May 31, 2024 by VicMoore

[new_german_guy 1]

On 5/31/2024 at 1:56 PM, VicMoore said:

@new_german_guythanks for the kind words. The TV Platform on which PseudoTV is built was written by @Luke. He plans in the future to enhance this code so that playlists will not be required to force Emby clients to play media at the current time in the EPG, rather than always starting at the beginning of the media.  This will resolve the problem you mentioned above.

We are now working on completing Bumpers.  This code should be completed soon.  If you have suggestions please let us know.

Vic

okay, that's very good news. I'm looking forward to testing it out  

does the tv guide have to be updated every few days? or does this happen automatically so that it doesn't become empty ?

Will the bumpers still be listed in the TV guide or will they be hidden? 

Edited June 1, 2024 by new_german_guy

[VicMoore 754]

@new_german_guyThe bumpers will be in the tv guide.  At the moment I don't have the TV guide automatically updating.  I disabled it to simplify testing.  

I have finished the bumpers code and it seams to be working OK.  I will test it a bit more and then post it for you to try out.

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

Everyone, attached below is the code for bumpers.  I have tested it, but not exhaustively.  Let me know if you discover bugs and I will fix them ASAP.

Vic

PseudoTV.dll PseudoTV.zip

[feerlessleadr 173]

8 minutes ago, VicMoore said:

Everyone, attached below is the code for bumpers.  I have tested it, but not exhaustively.  Let me know if you discover bugs and I will fix them ASAP.

Vic

PseudoTV.dll 248 kB · 0 downloads PseudoTV.zip 952.57 kB · 0 downloads

Thanks @VicMoore!

Were you able to fix the bug I raised in the below post?

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/124492-pseudo-tv-for-emby/&do=findComment&comment=1360636

[VicMoore 754]

Sorry @feerlessleadrI forgot to look at that bug.  I will work on it today.  I put all of my time into fixing bumpers.  Let me know if you find any other bugs.

Vic

[new_german_guy 1]

2 hours ago, VicMoore said:

@new_german_guyThe bumpers will be in the tv guide.  At the moment I don't have the TV guide automatically updating.  I disabled it to simplify testing.  

I have finished the bumpers code and it seams to be working OK.  I will test it a bit more and then post it for you to try out.

Vic

thanks, I already tested it and everything seems to work  

for me it is great that only one bumper is played , but others might want to decide for themselves how many bumpers are played.

With the other GUI it was still possible to choose how many bumpers should be played. But it didn't work, instead 3 were always played, even though you only selected 1.That's why I don't know if it would be a good choice to be able to choose the number of bumpers again 

For me it is good as it is. 

 

Will it be possible in the future to hide the bumpers in the TV guide without changing the other circumstances significantly?

otherwise just leave it as it is 

Edited June 1, 2024 by new_german_guy

[feerlessleadr 173]

1 hour ago, VicMoore said:

Sorry @feerlessleadrI forgot to look at that bug.  I will work on it today.  I put all of my time into fixing bumpers.  Let me know if you find any other bugs.

Vic

No worries at all! So far so good. 

[VicMoore 754]

@TZTZoroand I are working on the next release of the code. It adds "Channel Up" and "Channel Down" buttons and displays just one channel at a time.  This makes the channels easier to work with. It's also lightning fast because all that happens is that the visibility of table rows is either turned on or off. I am also improving the code that builds EPG channels, and the bumper code. Both should be ready tomorrow.

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

Everyone, I added viewing channels one channel at a time, improved how programs and bumpers are interleaved, and increased the overall speed of the code.  I have only tested the code for a short while, so I may have broken something.  @TZTZorohas also improved the GUI and the HTML code.

Please let me know about any bugs or improvement suggestions.

Vic

==> Well I did break something - I am fixing it now - I will post the code again this afternoon

The sort order is not always being followed.  I will fix this ASAP

The code below is OK and will give everyone a good feel for the GUI.

 

PseudoTV.dll

Edited June 3, 2024 by VicMoore