BBCiPlayerExtra - a plugin to provide additional menus for BBCiPlayer for Categories, A-Z and Schedule.
I have written a small plugin which works with BBCiPlayer plugin and provides some additonal functionality which I find useful. This plugin uses BBCiPlayer to play the streams - the BBCiPlayerExtra plugin just gets the program information from other BBC sources and offers different menus to play the same programs. TO INSTALL As it is a trial I have a separate repository which needs to be added to the Plugins tab (or Extension Download for 7.3.x). Add the URL below, click Apply and a new option to install the Plugin BBCiPlayerExtra should appear. http://homepage.eircom.net/~altondsl/repos/testextrarepo.xml The BBCiPlayer Extra menu will appear below BBCiPlayer menu in Internet Radio. On Squeezeplay devices I have found it is necessary to restart them to get the new menu to display. NOTES I'd like feedback on whether it is useful and should be. As I am not in the UK there may be some bugs dues to differences between UK and non UK feeds and there may be some time zone issues in Schedule menu times. Since the plugin relies on a different set of BBC feeds which may change I don't think the Extra plugin should be incorporated into the BBCiPlayer. The plugin uses the RSS feeds ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/feeds/ ) and Schedule feeds which are more specific rather than the BBC XML feed used by BBCiPlayer. The XML feeds have all programs for a station. This enables menus of programs based on genre (e.g. Radio 4 comedy) or some other criteria (e.g.popular, date) to be created which are shorter lists of programs than offered by BBCiPlayer. Another advantages of using these feeds is that if the main BBCiPlayer XML feed is faulty - these RSS feeds often still work. The Schedule menu gives user info on what programs are due to be broadcast. This functionality used to be provided by the "BBC What's On" info browser addon. Info comes from the Radio Schedule info from the BBC Schedule feeds ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/developers ). For each station the Schedule menu shows "Todays" schedule and at the bottom menus for: Yesterday, Tomorrow and Next Week. For Yesterday and Today schedule - any program that is available (on Squeezeplay indicated by the lack of a ">" at end of entry, on other players a note symbol is present) can be played. This means for example, The Archers and Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 can be played before the broadcast time - same as web iPlayer interface The user can save a Category or Schedule menu as a Favorite so that having "Radio 4 comedy" or "BBC Radio London Today" favorite can provide a quicker way to get to a program both in time and menu navigation. The user can also create and customised their own RSS feed menu using any one of the BBC feeds as follows: 1. Use SBS Web interface and create a Favorite from one of the Extra menus (e.g. Radio Highlights) 2. Edit the Favorite entry. 3. In another browser window - open this page http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/feeds 4. Select "All Feeds Tabs" 5. Using the drop down selections choose the required feed. Make sure you are using a Radio feed in "Programmes from:" box. Do *not* click "Subscribe now". 6. Copy the URL link indicated by "Or you can copy and paste its URL" 7. Go back to SBS UI web window and now paste the link into the URL field of Favorite entry being edited. Change the Favorite description to match and click "Save". -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67098 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
