(2016-12-14, 18:51)gillmacca Wrote: Well I've decided the amazon fire tv remote isn't good enough for use with kodi. Not enough buttons to remap, and if I do remap for the tv guide, it will also affect the rest of kodi, so have bitten the bullet and ordered one of those wireless keyboards. https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/rv7/Rii-i8BT-Bluetooth-Mini-Wireless-Keyboard-Rechargeable/B018I3KBTK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1481732862&sr=8-3&keywords=amazon+fire+tv+keyboard
Should be easy for mapping in the tv guide

(2016-12-14, 14:11)Drt1989 Wrote:

(2016-12-14, 10:08)primaeval Wrote:

(2016-12-14, 00:43)Drt1989 Wrote: Currently on Win10 at the moment, but will fiddle with keymappings at some point. --Edit yes the Radio add on does as it loads up the vizualisation. I noticed if I turned off the visual for music that the stream will play bu i will be stuck on a grey (think its a texture) screen and then no commands work - i could bring up the power menu by hitting s to quit....

Other than that the OSD seems ok, would be nice if I could choose display OSD for x amount of seconds before closing?

version 0.0.244
- Settings \ Playback \ Playback OSD (seconds) - (Playback OSD and Timeout are Cumulative)

This should let you choose how long you want to show the osd for.
BEWARE: On some devices in can't be zero or bad things happen. I can't remember why. Maybe I'm trying to forget.

The Radio addon plays ok for me but there is something strange about it. It hangs Kodi for several seconds while it finds the stream to play. I get a spinning Windows mouse cursor. There is no osd while it is busy.

If you use it a lot you can probably make an m3u playlist for your favourite streams by looking in the kodi.log file for info like this:
I don't know how often they will change.

Code:

09:03:40 T:5368  NOTICE: [plugin.audio.radio_de] get_station_by_station_id started with station_id=3243
09:03:40 T:5368  NOTICE: [plugin.audio.radio_de] __api_call started with path=broadcast/getbroadcastembedded, param={'broadcast': '3243'}
09:03:40 T:5368  NOTICE: [plugin.audio.radio_de] __urlopen opening url=http://rad.io/info/broadcast/getbroadcastembedded?broadcast=3243
09:03:40 T:5368  NOTICE: [plugin.audio.radio_de] get_stream_url result: http://bbcmedia.ic.llnwd.net/stream/bbcmedia_radio1_mf_q

Use the last url in that.

10/10 again.
Will play about with things

(2016-12-14, 19:04)Drt1989 Wrote: Will it go ok into the guide if I import it?

Edit: - I've confused myself. Now realised that my .m3u playlist will only offer streams (I manually added from my .m3u and works - oddly kodi hangs on play....just like the addon) Can I assume that importing the .m3u will try and match up with whats in the xmltv file?

(2016-12-14, 19:27)primaeval Wrote:

(2016-12-14, 19:04)Drt1989 Wrote: Will it go ok into the guide if I import it?

Edit: - I've confused myself. Now realised that my .m3u playlist will only offer streams (I manually added from my .m3u and works - oddly kodi hangs on play....just like the addon) Can I assume that importing the .m3u will try and match up with whats in the xmltv file?

It worked ok for me. Nice detective work.

It you want to experiment with different settings in Kodi you can always make a new Profile or run Kodi in Portable Mode with the -p command line switch. It's how I do all my dev work.

I doubt if you can stop the startup buffering too much but I would make sure all the visualizations are disabled in the Kodi Settings and by turning them off when you play a stream from the Music section.

Most of the BBC Radio streams are in the iplayerwww addon in the Music section. They should be faster to start and are in 320kbps quality if you are in the UK.

There are 3 levels of channel matching in Settings \ Appearance \ Channel Matching.

Exact: ignores the case but must match exactly.
Containing: will match something like "Radio 1" to "Ch 1. BBC Radio 1 England".
Everything: will match "Radio 1" to "BBC Radio One England", changing numbers to words.

If you have full control of the xmltv file and m3u you should try and get them to match exactly. It will be quicker.

(2016-12-14, 20:04)FXB78 Wrote: @Drt1989 - For http streams like this you would usually use #EXTINF:-1, rather than #EXTINF:0, which I believe is more for static files. You could try using #EXTINF:-1, although I doubt it will make any difference to be honest.

(2016-12-14, 22:25)Drt1989 Wrote: @primaeval

Radio is alot more stable now. All visualisations are off

Things I've noticed.

Using OSD - I can use pgup/down and the osd info displays as per channels I flick through. However this stops when swapping radio stations. When I am swapping stations the swap happens but the osd info doesn't load up. (If i press i - I can see that the osd is displaying the new station info) - Essentially I don't know what channel I am listening too.

This may not be a big deal as its unlikely to browse stations this way BUT in the case someone in the house does, it would be nice if it worked in the way swapping tv channels does.

Will be testing on a 'droid box at some point, then the fun really starts lol

Edit. - Suggestion - would be possible to add this functionality. During fullscreen playback OK displays OSD with stop and move up/down channel icons? It might not be your cup of tea... lol but some people I know need to visually see up or down or they honestly are useless haha.

(2016-12-14, 22:25)Drt1989 Wrote: However............. If you wanted to make things a little nicer (do you hate me yet) how about when in the EPG pressing R allows to set/remove (or open) the reminder menu?

(2016-12-14, 23:06)primaeval Wrote:

(2016-12-14, 22:25)Drt1989 Wrote: However............. If you wanted to make things a little nicer (do you hate me yet) how about when in the EPG pressing R allows to set/remove (or open) the reminder menu?

The key mapping mechanism is a more indirect.
The addon needs to know the Kodi action that has been activated to do something.
The Kodi action is mapped in the keymap.xml file back to a physical key.

So in the keymap.xml you might have something like
<p>Play</p>
which maps up the actual p key to the Play action
and in the addon
it has
ACTION_PLAY
which plays the channel.

If you want R to set a Reminder I need to know one of the spare ACTION_ commands to open the Reminder dialog.

The trouble is a lot of those actions don't get through to the epg and all the obvious ones are already used.

(2016-12-14, 23:46)gillmacca Wrote: Another option (not keen on, but if it works), is add the reminder option to the search box that comes up (so you have, Title, Synopsis, Categories & Reminder) and it will add the reminder because the show is already selected

(2016-12-14, 23:55)primaeval Wrote:

(2016-12-14, 23:46)gillmacca Wrote: Another option (not keen on, but if it works), is add the reminder option to the search box that comes up (so you have, Title, Synopsis, Categories & Reminder) and it will add the reminder because the show is already selected

I see where you're coming from but if we're going for a multi-function action then the main context menu already is that.

I'll try and find a spare ACTION_ for the Reminders tomorrow as it seems like it would be useful to have a quick shortcut.
Should it be the Once/Always choice or just the Once?