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[Qu@rk]

Disabled timers:

Active timers are marked red in the Graphical Multi EPG.

Would it be possible to mark disabled timers for example yellow?

Nice to see if someone maybe had accidentally disabled a timer. 

 

Program details (info key):

The channel, date, start time and duration are displayed in the details (TV show details via info key). 

Would it be possible to add the end time to the information?

Of course it is possible to calculate this, but it would be nice to have it immediately. 

 

Start and end time for selected TV-show:

In list mode of the Graphical Multi EPG it would be nice to see the start and end time of the selected TV show, maybe right to the date on the top. 

 

 

 

 

 

[ims]

About colors: red - receive / yellow - zap and record / green - zap. When is timer disabled, then any info in EPG has no sence ...

 

About event end - this info is displayed in top of each event...

Edited by ims, 18 November 2023 - 16:03.

[ims]

For end time you can add this lines to PLi-FullHD skin.xml to screen "EventView" under line with "datetime":

		<widget source="Event" render="Label" position="210,652" size="120,45" transparent="1" font="Regular;33" halign="left">
			<convert type="EventTime">EndTime</convert>
			<convert type="ClockToText">Format: - %H:%M</convert>
		</widget>

Edited by ims, 18 November 2023 - 17:51.

[Qu@rk]

I have used openPLi for much more than a decade but always with CoolTV Guide and EMC. I would like to use the standard openPLi extensions instead but there are a few features missing.

 

Please, could you consider to add my requested features. That would be awesome. I always try to request reasonable features because I know it is not always easy to implement functions that seem simple at first glance. 

 

Colorize deactivated timers in GMEPG:

if you use AutoTimer a lot, which I do, and enable the feature to add deactivated timers in case of a conflict then my requested feature makes very much sense. If you see a yellow colorized event in the GMEPG you know something was wrong with AutoTimer.

 

In addition if you deactivate timers created by AutoTimer manually and you see a colorized event in the GMEPG, you have a reminder and can check if it was the right timer.

 

End time in event info (event view):

Thanks for the helpful hint. I can do it in my openPLi 8.3 but it would be nice to add this permanently to the release.

 

I don't know whether 8.3 gets any updates any more but to make this change update-safe I would copy the skin.xml of PLi-FullHD into /etc/enigma2/skin_user_PLi-FullHD.xml and make my changes.

Is this correct? 

 

Start and end time in List Mode of GMEPG:

It would be nice to see the start and end time of a selected event on first sight and not to have to press the info key. There would be space at the right side of the date.

 

I would add these features by myself and with help of a CoreMember I added a view features to openPLi (e. g. event info in the list of timers) a couple of years ago. But I do not have the knowledge to do so in a reasonable time.

 

Thank you very much for your time. 

[ims]

You can use own file for permanen changes in used skin (it can be used in backup/restore).

 

Into /ect/enigma2 place file with name "skin_user_X.xml", where X is name of used skin. F.eg "skin_user_PLi-FullHD.xml" or "skin_user_PLi-FullNightHD.xml"

In this file put modified screen(s)

 

Example for EvenView with one modified and added lines for event end time.

<skin>

    <screen name="EventView" title="Eventview" position="fill" flags="wfNoBorder">
...
...
...
        <widget name="datetime" position="30,652" size="180,45" transparent="1" font="Regular;33" halign="left"/>
        <widget source="Event" render="Label" position="210,652" size="120,45" transparent="1" font="Regular;33" halign="left">
            <convert type="EventTime">EndTime</convert>
            <convert type="ClockToText">Format: - %H:%M</convert>
        </widget>
...
...
...
    </screen>

</skin>

I can add it to skin, but it will be in develop and then in 9.1.

 

About disabled timers - disabled timers may not be in the same program, so you may not find them in the overview at all. Therefore, it is much better to browse the list of timers in the timers in the main menu, where everything is together.

[Qu@rk]

Thank you for adding this to the project. I will test this later in my 8.3 (and maybe later in 9.0 until it is available).

 

Regarding colorizing deactivated timers in GMEPG:

I am not sure whether we are talking about the same thing.

I do not understand your answer.

[Qu@rk]

I have tested your suggested changes for the end time in EventView. Of cours it works perfectly. Thanks again.

 

Attached a screenshot from what I mean, yellow are deactivated timers, red are activated timers.

That's very useful if you use AutoTimer a lot, like me. ;-)

 

 

Attached Files

•  CoolTV_colorized_deactivated_timers.jpg   256.29KB   1 downloads

Edited by Qu@rk, 19 November 2023 - 11:46.

[Qu@rk]

The source code for colorize active timers in the GMEPG and skin should be very similar to those I requested. 

 

I suppose I would need to modify the source code and skin. 

 

Please, could you point me in the right direction to find the GMEPG source code file(s) and skin for colorize active timers.

 

https://github.com/O...s/GraphMultiEPG

 

Correct?

Edited by Qu@rk, 21 November 2023 - 10:21.

[ims]

What is multi EPG on your picture ? I will see on it (on weekend).

[Qu@rk]

Thank you. I am not sure I understand you correctly. 

My screenshot is from CoolTV Guide (Cool Tiny Guide) on my openPLi 8.3. 

[ims]

Thank you. I am not sure I understand you correctly. 

My screenshot is from CoolTV Guide (Cool Tiny Guide) on my openPLi 8.3. 

CoolTV Guide is in our feed or is it third party plugin?

Edited by ims, 21 November 2023 - 11:12.

[DimitarCC]

CoolTV Guide is third party and closed source if i remember correct.

[ims]

CoolTV Guide is third party and closed source if i remember correct.

... and is it instalable from our feed ?

[Qu@rk]

That's the reason why I would like to use the standard openPLi extension. 

 

No, it is not installable from the openPLi feed.

I had to decompile it and remove the so called "time bomb".

CoolTV Guide stopped working after a specific date to motivate users to pay for it. 

[littlesat]

I think you never want code with a time bomb.....Now I remember again why I hated this code....  Why I think it is not that cool.....

 

For the yellow disabled timer 'markings' did you made changes to the code or only to the skin. Please repeat again what you did change so we can adapt it....

 

I'm also afraid it is time to simplify the GMEPG somehow as it has many features. Also half clocks etc... which makes it almost unreadable when some timers are set ... So we can I think adapt some default settings.

Edited by littlesat, 21 November 2023 - 11:49.

[WanWizard]

Is there a Python3 version of Cool TV Guide?

[littlesat]

Is there a Python3 version of Cool TV Guide?

->

Only a hacked version where the code is de-compiled and the time-bomb patched out...  I remember from a long time ago this author was very aggressive. Even when he thought we steel some code from him in our GMEPG... it seems also be a function steeling plugin, which makes it extreme depended on the code from the image....

Edited by littlesat, 21 November 2023 - 11:56.

[DimitarCC]

Not official one. As @Qu@rk said he had to decompile it. And since he use it on 8.3 it is py2.

[WanWizard]

That's what I mean. There was another topic where someone tried to install it op OpenPLi 9.

[ims]

It's just about how to detect disabled timers in GMEPG and change the background jpg used for it ( + jpeg add to the skin). That's all.

Similar mechanism as timers for recording have red background. And make it optionaly, of course.

Edited by ims, 21 November 2023 - 12:32.