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krustyreturns · 2014-03-13, 16:30

Cool, that should clean things up nicely. Showing my ignorance here, but I have never done anything with radio in xbmc as a developer or user. If you have radio channels come up in the radio area, can you schedule recordings for them? In wmc I don't think you can record radio. Having these audio-only channels come up in the tv area allows recorording (although we still have to look into the bug that socal found recording these channels).

scarecrow420 · (This post was last modified: 2014-03-13, 16:45 by scarecrow420.)

I just quickly made the change to shift them to Radio stations and you can still record "Start Recording" from the context menu on the channel list (which fails for us whether its TV or Radio section, due to us trying to detrmine an end time from EPG, and there are no EPG entries). manual recording (Add Timer) works though

scarecrow420 · (This post was last modified: 2014-03-13, 17:04 by scarecrow420.)

lol ok i implemented the radio stuff as well, if you want to test it out KR. I really need to get to bed now hehehe. it requires client changes obviously to set the SupportsRadio capability and to send through the Radio flag on the GetChannels request. These client changes are pushed to github

You could probably fake things on your setup by hacking the code to set ServiceType == Audio on a couple of your channels Smile

i didnt actually remove any video streams during remux if the channel is audio only, i moreso just dont care if there are any video streams or not. perhaps we could throw in a line to "remove any video streams" and then your hacked audio channels would actually even play with just audio and no video Smile

SoCalXMBC · (This post was last modified: 2014-03-13, 20:03 by SoCalXMBC.)

Nice work guys!!! I thought I would mention that before upgrading to the latest WMCServers I would frequently have channels fail to tune on the first attempt, usually after waking from sleep. However your latest bits in 2014 are all really solid and perform consistent. You definitely have the best plugin for live TV and XBMC, hands down!

krustyreturns · 2014-03-14, 05:18

Thanks SoCal. Scarecrow's changes work well. Hopefully we will get it released soon. Its interesting to now have 'radio' working (like scarecrow said though, the radio section will require a client change too).

We still need to fix the recording audio-only channel thing that you found, and some other small stuff before we release.

SoCalXMBC · 2014-03-14, 05:57

I'm overly thrilled that you two have taken the time to look into these things.

I had a bit of a disaster today, added a second Hauppauge card and needed to uninstall the first to get it working right... thus losing all the hard work in WMC to setup the channels and get them sync'd to XBMC. It turned out the second card didnt work right, so I had to put things back the way they were. I recreated everything in WMC leaving WMCServer and XBMC settings completely untouched and shut down. That weird channel order bug came back when I was done and rebooted fresh. I tried everything to get WMCServer to pull the channels in order just like before and it just wouldnt do it.

I did discover something interesting though, WMCServer must be restarted between every WMC change as well. WMCServer kept sending or XBMC was simulating receiving of an incomplete cached copy of the EPG data to XBMC on reset database and reset EPG even though it was displaying properly in WMC. I say simulating because the reset would flash on the screen very fast. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why. I reset WMCServer and then XBMC reset channels and EPG which this time seemed to take much longer than the previous times... one of the two seemed to be caching. I thought I would bring it to your attention in case XBMC Gotham is doing something different than Frodo.

All good now, channel order and mental order restored! Smile

krustyreturns · 2014-03-14, 06:11

Anything related to the remux we pay a lot of attention too.

Some settings form wmc are only read when swmc starts up. Channels for instance. In the next rev, there will be a 'reload' channels button. For the most part swmc was written with the idea that wmc is fully configured the way you want it before swmc is configured, so some of this behavior comes from that.

Playing with channel order though, there is something strange about xbmc not taking changes that I have noticed too since you brought it up. I know the order is coming in correctly from swmc, but xbmc won't always reflect it and so far I haven't been able to figure out why. There is the kind of stuff scarecrow is great at figuring out (hopefully he is read this...)

scarecrow420 · 2014-03-14, 06:14

I am reading it Smile

I was getting into even more dramas with XBMC when I was making those radio changes last night. I was quite easily getting into a state where I had to reset the 2 XBMC databases for PVR/EPG otherwise loads were failing. It was something to do with me changing between sending over my 2 radio channels as normal TV channels or as radio channels. Once they were there, if i changed the config to not send them anymore XBMC got in a twist and my xbmc.log had lots of SQL errors etc. I have XBMC set not to store EPG database, but i dont think you can stop it storing the channels etc, and yeah something odd is going on with it's caching etc.

SoCalXMBC · 2014-04-02, 18:04

Excellent job on the new builds! I manually updated the wmc.pvr.addon front end and now the QAM "Free To Air" cable music channels are categorized correctly and play without any configuration modifications.