Pseudo TV for Emby

[VicMoore 754]

I am making great progress even though family duties come first.  I am reorganizing the code to make it easier to read and modify. I will have something to post soon.

Vic

[Thrackerzod 0]

Take your time! Family is always top priority. We appreciate your work on this. I'm using it to great effect already!

[new_german_guy 1]

great work you have done here, with the latest version of the plugin 

 

but I noticed that these functions only work under Windows :

On 5/31/2024 at 10:13 AM, new_german_guy said:

but there are many things I like more in your plugin

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

But I think that was the case with previous versions as well. At least I had previously only tested it under Windows 11.

But now I was able to test it on Android smartphone, Samsung TV, Android TV and Amazon Fire TV and here I could see that these functions did not work exactly as they did on Windows 11.

It would of course be nice if the plugin would work identically on all platforms in the future 

 

By the way, is there a plan to include a function that allows you to select how many episodes of a particular series should be loaded into the TV guide? 

[VicMoore 754]

Attached below is the latest code. I tested it yesterday by creating many channels and it worked fine.  Bumpers and a third filter have been added. In addition, @TZTZorohas cleaned up the HTML and CSS to give the GUI a nice crisp look. I could have missed a problem, so tread lightly when using the code.  For those following the source code, the lines of code have been greatly reduced and everything has been reorganized to make the code more readable.

Please alert me to bugs, and I will fix them right away. Also let me know if the code is working OK.

Vic

PseudoTV.dll PseudoTV.zip

[VicMoore 754]

Is it working OK?

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

I just discovered that I broke the "search filter" when I made the last changes to the code.  I will fix it today

Vic

[feerlessleadr 173]

Thanks Vic, been a bit busy with work, but plan to test this this week. Will let you know if the premiere date big is still hanging around. 

As an aside, do you have any plans on implementing the EPG guide update as a scheduled task?

[VicMoore 754]

@feerlessleadrYes I plan to update the guide via a scheduled task.  I am keeping everything simple until we get through debug.

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

Well, the search filter is working OK after all.  My test was defective.

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

I have found an interesting problem. Bumpers play on one TV and fail to play on another TV.   Does anyone else have this problem?

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

I made one small addition. When adding files, clicking the "prev Page" now returns you to the pervious page where you left off, rather than always at the top of the listing.

vic

PseudoTV.zip PseudoTV.dll

[VicMoore 754]

The bumper problem is with my bumpers.  I need a better source

I just noticed that I did not put the spinners back in.  

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

When finding files, the files were always listed alphabetically to simplify locating and selecting programs.  The side effect of this choice is that the "Sort By" for programs defaulted to "alphabetical".  So, I removed the code that forced alphabetical listings in favor of honoring the listing choice specified in the menu.  The consequence of this choice was that finding a particular program became difficult, because you had to search through all of the files one at a time.  For this reason, I added a simple find method at the top of the find file menu.  With it you can scroll the title you want to the top of the menu.

I also added the "loading" spinner back in.  Does anyone have any concerns or bugs to be fixed?

 

PseudoTV.zip PseudoTV.dll

[new_german_guy 1]

Everything works great, thanks 

Now it would be good if the EPG would update automatically, so that you do not always have to update manually and then the previous guide data is completely overwritten.

And for the future it would be nice if the bumpers were not displayed in the guide  

 

@VicMoore @TZTZoroThank you again for your great work 

 

[VicMoore 754]

@new_german_guyyes I agree, I will start working on it soon. The C# code is already done and is currently in the TV platform. When @Luke wrote the platform code, he allowed the EPG data to either be over written (which I am doing now for debugging) or for the new data to be added to the end of the current EPG data. I am delaying only because I want to flush out most of the bugs before adding any more code. I should get to it next week if no big problems are found. I have to go out of town to visit my son on Saturday and will return on Wednesday. I can start work then.

If you find any bugs or have ideas about how to improve channel building, please let me know.  

Vic

Edited June 13, 2024 by VicMoore

[feerlessleadr 173]

1 minute ago, VicMoore said:

@new_german_guyyes I agree, I will star working on it soon. The C# code is already done and is currently in the TV platform. When @Luke wrote the code, he allowed the EPG data to either be over written (which I am doing now for debugging) or for the new data to be added to the end of the current EPG data. I am delaying only because I want to flush out most of the bugs before adding any more code. I should get to it next week if no big problems are found. I have to go out of town to visit my son on Saturday and will return on Wednesday. 

If you find any bugs or have ideas about how to improve channel building, please let me know.  

Vic

Hi @VicMooreapologies I haven't had a chance to test yet, but were you able to squash the premiere order in EPG bug? 

[VicMoore 754]

@feerlessleadrYes, that should work now.  The "Sort By" specified should be honored.  Keep in mind that my code only creates a query string that is sent to Emby.  The heavy lifting of processing the query is done within the Emby server.  Please let me know if it is working the way you expected it to.

Vic

[feerlessleadr 173]

1 minute ago, VicMoore said:

@feerlessleadrYes, that should work now.  The "Sort By" specified should be honored.  Keep in mind that my code only creates a query string that is sent to Emby.  The heavy lifting of processing the query is done within the Emby server.  Please let me know if it is working the way you expected it to.

Vic

Ok great thanks! I will test today

[feerlessleadr 173]

@VicMooreMaybe I'm doing something wrong, but the EPG order by premiere date for more than 1 TV show is still not working for me. It's still ordering the episodes in episodic order by alternating show, rather than absolute premiere date. 

[VicMoore 754]

@feerlessleadrdid you set the sort order to what you want?

[feerlessleadr 173]

9 minutes ago, VicMoore said:

@feerlessleadrdid you set the sort order to what you want?

I believe I did - see below:

EPG:

All episodes of SG-1 premiered before Stargate Universe, so it's stil showing up incorrectly. 

One other thing, I can't figure out how to switch channels to edit. Am I missing something?

[VicMoore 754]

@feerlessleadrYes, you set it correctly.  I will check the query sent to Emby today.  It's possible that the premiere dates of the folders are not  set. When you look at the EPG are the episodes within each folder in premiere date order?

You switch from channel to channel by clicking the channel up and channel down buttons.  The change happens so fast that you often have to look at the channel numbers to recognize that a channel change occurred. 

Vic

[VicMoore 754]

@feerlessleadrI see what the problem is. When TV series are added to a channel, the shows in those series are not played one after the other. Instead, they are interleaved. A show is taken from series 1, the next show comes from series 2, and so. Collectively the shows are played in the chosen order.  I will have to brain storm a bit to figure out how to do what you want.

Vic

[feerlessleadr 173]

Thanks @VicMoore! Hopefully that solution will also allow us to add Movies into the premiere date conversation as well at some point

[VicMoore 754]

@feerlessleadrin a couple of months when everything is better debugged, lets rejoin this topic and try to come up with something new and interesting.

Vic