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[theparasol]

Since the update of Skamann also JSON package needs to be installed for the openwebif to work properly.

opkg install python-json

[bacicciosat]

@Sjaaky: Can you please add Homey to dev group @Github ?
You only have the team managment.

Hey Sjaaky it is all ok ?

[ambrosa]

Hi.. i haven't read this post for a while... and you write a lot!

@homey
good to see you here and partecipate to this project

About cheetah templates i think they are really great! As you saw they are a lot of faster than the original web if. And they are reach of features, you can do really many things inside your templates.
If you haven't yet tested it. With cheetah compiler the .tmpl code will be directly translated in python code. At the end, when we compile it, we can enjoy a great speed up in performance.

But you're right. When we play with javascript the JSON is like a must. It's faster than XML in both server and client side.

I just committed some code to let you to use json from javascript: https://github.com/E.../commits/master

Now every xml webapi (that i'm still implementing on the line of original web if) could be generate a json output using http://boxip/api/ instead of http://boxip/web/

An example:

http://172.16.1.101:8088/web/vol

<e2volume>
<e2result>True</e2result>
<e2resulttext>Status</e2resulttext>
<e2current>0</e2current>
<e2ismuted>True</e2ismuted>
</e2volume>

http://172.16.1.101:8088/api/vol

{"current": 0, "message": "Status", "result": true, "ismute": true}

About the streaming i thought a little about that... and i can't see many solutions
- HTML5
HTML5 finally introduce the capability to stream a video from your HTML code. Great! But HTML5 say only how to use the "<video /> tag". Doesn't speak about the content (mean as formats and codecs). So every browser is different. Someone use H264, someone use VP8. Someone can read a .ts, someone need an .avi or similar and need to know the file size before. Someone need a small playlist with a series of .ts links (like ios and android honeycomb). Really a mess.
On our stb we must use the video with original codec. Because the CPU doesn't permit us to reencode the video. Probabilly we can only change the format to the video.. but with a large usage of resources

- FLASH
As i can read on the web it work only with H264. If we are lucky we can only play some HD stream.. but what we can do with an SD MPEG2 stream?
And flash will not work on many mobile devices.

- VLC PLUGIN
This seem to be the only solution.
Sincerly i don't like it. You need to install a plugin. It won't work on mobile devices. And it work only with some browser/platform combinations.


Any idea?

If possible don't break currently mobile apps available, like DreamDroid for Android or other apps for Apple device....

[Sjaaky]

Hi Homey-GER,

You've got access to the github repo. Good luck!

[skaman]

If possible don't break currently mobile apps available, like DreamDroid for Android or other apps for Apple device....

Yes.. keep "api compatibility" with original webif is one of our purpose.
But actually original webif expose 73 web api.. openwebif only 18
So for now client applications couldn't work... but with some patience they will do

[Homey-GER]

Hey there

So I had finally some time this morning to develop some stuff.
I've created some screens and stuff:
- I've created an feed containing volume, mute status, current channel and standby mode (using skamans json api)
- This feed is used in javascript and fetched every 15 seconds to update the volume control and sets current channel-name in the header
- A simple Power-Control Screen for restart and power on/off buttons
- An experimental bouquet screen to watch channellists. The HTML Table is created via javascript on the client completly based on the json channellist feed (also json api from skamans). The Full Channellist loads in about 2 seconds now, instead 5-6 when using the old method where the box has to render HTML completly with cheetah tpl engine.
- Movielist Screen already finished days ago.
- Currently working on "Send Message" and Sreenshot Screens which should be also finished an hour or so.

[Meega]

Can't wait to test

[bacicciosat]

Great Homey !
It is time that you start to commit your code.

[hemertje]

Homey, you got PM

[positron]

Could you reduce the width of OpenWebIf's config window in order to get the right edge still on the TV screen ? (SD skin "Magic" used here).

Thanx for the great work.

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[littlesat]

Is the reload settings already implemented????

[pieterg]

I think we should not degrade this thread into a feature request list

This is a development thread, where the developers are discussing technical issues and making design choices.
A lot of functionality is still missing, so it does not look like the developers are sitting here not knowing what to do next

Perhaps someone could start a new thread with wishes and feature requests.

[littlesat]

In the settings for openwebif the red button is store and the green cancel... usually in E2 this is the other way around...

[bacicciosat]

Ok for both

[littlesat]

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[kooleracer]

Just a suggestion is it possible to put a feature in this openwebif, that allows you to update your box?

[Homey-GER]

I've committed most of my stuff today so we have something to play with

For sure I will update those screens I've commited in the next days again and optimize the code, make it nicer, more error-handling etc.

[TheMystery]

@Homey

Looks very nice, in de movie section is it possible to sort it on date.
Now is everything is not in order.

[Taykun345]

Just a suggestion is it possible to put a feature in this openwebif, that allows you to update your box?

Nice feature but this is not useful in all images as they dont have built-in update system (OpenPLi is an exception of course).

Edited by Taykun345, 20 November 2011 - 15:22.

[skaman]

Just a suggestion is it possible to put a feature in this openwebif, that allows you to update your box?

Nice feature but this is not useful in all images as they dont have built-in update system (OpenPLi is an exception of course).

A "package manager" inside the webif could still be an interesting feature (but not the most important for now).
If someone want implement it please contact me. I already have some python code (from other projects) who parse the packages list without wrap opkg command line tool. We can recycle that code if necessary.
Otherwise i can do it but only after finish all web apis