Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hello all, Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I have ceased maintaining this plugin, as I no longer have any need to use it. Unfortunately this has co-incided with a major change to the Live Departures website, which this plugin scrapes, thereby rendering the plugin broken. I've put the code on github [1] if anyone wishes to fork it and get it going again. The necessary changes will be to "UKStandardRoute.pm.doParseContent()". I also notice that the query URLs have been changed (although the old ones still work) but it may be worthwhile changing those too. I did start work on a plugin for the SBC (way back when it was still called "Jive") which could be resurrected too. Matthew [1] https://github.com/mflint/LiveDepartures -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hey, Sorry to hear about the problems with Underground. To be honest, I didn't think anyone was using it! I have tonight bumped the version so it'll work with the latest version of Squeezebox Server. Fixing the Underground thing will take a bit longer. (I don't use this plugin anymore, so make it available for adoption in the near future. Anyone interested?) Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Hey, I've put a fixed version out there. (Happily, the Beeb have changed the HTML to be nicer - in a semantic sense - than it was before) Hope this works OK for you Simon Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Hey, I've put a fixed version out there. (Happily, the Beeb have changed the HTML to be nicer - in a semantic sense - than it was before) Hope this works OK for you Simon :) Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
That's very unfortunate... I'll take a look when there's some data on the VidePrinter page to see. Could be that there's a simple fix again. (To be honest, I don't use this plugin any more, so it may well be made available for adoption soon) -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] PluginBuilder - making *huge* par files for SqueezeboxServer 7.5
I'm trying to update my plugins for SqueezeboxServer v7.5, so installed 7.5 and grabbed PluginBuilder from the 7.5 repository. When I run PluginBuilder, it's generating a huge par file. (800k, compared to the 30k I was expecting) If I change PluginBuilder to increase the verbosity of the pp task, I see that most of SqueezeboxServer itself (plus all the out-of-the-box plugins) are being added to the par file. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? (If I revert to using "--slimserverdir /path/to/squeezeboxserver-7.4/" then it works OK - so I have a workaround!) Thanks in advance, Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77593 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
No problems - it should be available in the repo now too. Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Apologies for the delay. The BBC have tweaked their webpage very slightly, and it's an easy fix. Unfortunately, the webpage where I host the plugin is having some issues too, so I can't upload to the usual place - meaning that the usual "install using the repository" thing won't work. Hope to get it fixed soon, but in the meantime I'll attach a new version to this post. Thanks again for notifying me of the problem :-) Matthew +---+ |Filename: GoalRush-1.2.452.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8210| +---+ -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Raptor;457069 Wrote: > Was working OK on Saturday 29th August, went away over the next weekend > and now all I get is "Goalrush (1 of 0)". > > I've done all the usual checks, so is this just me? > > Simon. *sigh* It's broken for me too. I'll take a look - chances are the BBC have changed their webpage. I'll try to take a look tonight, but on holiday next week so you might have to survive without for a few days :-/ Sorry folks! Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hi all, (Apologies for the long absence!) There's a new version available here: http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures And a shiny-new repository here: http://wiki.insignificant.org/images/Pluginrepo.xml I've done very brief testing with SC7.4, and it all seems OK so far... so that's the new maximum version. Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Hi all, There's a new version available here: http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush And a shiny-new repository here: http://wiki.insignificant.org/images/Pluginrepo.xml I've done very brief testing with SC7.4, and it all seems OK so far... so that's the new maximum version. Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Problem w Softsqueeze
I'm getting this problem too... which is annoying, as I'm tweaking a plugin's display for Transporter and Boom. (Neither of which I own) This is when connecting to both SC7.3 and SC7.2 servers... :-/ Can SoftSqueeze be run from the command-line? At least then I might get some console output. Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55310 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
RibRob;360305 Wrote: > For some reason it doesn't want to save any of the rail routes i add, > though is happy with the Underground routes. It's a fresh install of > 7.2.1, and version LiveDepartures-2.3.420.zip I think you need to use the [Save] button which is part of the plugin's form, not the main [Apply] button which SqueezeCenter provides. (That's a bug in my plugin) Also, check for saving errors, which appear inside the routes table. You need to make sure you enter start and/or destination routes appropriate to the route type. Example: if you choose "all departures from", then only the "Start" station name should be entered. Which route are you trying to enter? RibRob;360305 Wrote: > On a separate note, it's appearing fine (well, the Underground routes > are!) on my SqueezeBox Classic and my Boom, but should i also be able > to see it via my Duet Remote? Duet Remote... err, not yet. I have some thrown-together code which does it, but it's not polished enough yet to be relied upon. I can't see me being able to spend much time finishing this off... Thinking of maybe releasing what I've got and hoping someone tidies things up a bit. Any volunteers?! ;-) Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Nice, thanks for posting the update. Not sure what else we can do to make it fit any better. Perhaps you could move from Peterborough to Ely? ;) Seriously though: currently, for the Boom, it's hard-coded for three lines - which is probably the only sensible arrangement for that machine. But for other VFD devices (SB2/SB3/TP) there are still improvements that can be made. SBG/SB2/SB3 Are people generally happy with the two-line solution? Or do you sometimes wish that either: - you could display three lines to stop stuff scrolling, or - you could have it set to ENORMOUS MODE, thereby easily read from across the room TP For the Transporter, I could do better there too. Any suggestions? An easy change would be to move the time into the second display permanently, perhaps duplicating the standard "DateTime" arrangement there. (I only own one SB2, one SB3 and a Duet, so don't have strong opinions about how this plugin could be useful for Boom or TP) I'd be interested to hear any ideas :) Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hi folks, I've made an update - not especially well tested, cos it's late ;-) This includes the following changes: * bumped supported versions, so no more hacking "install.xml" * added crude support for the smaller Boom screen Get it here: http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures Apologies again for being so absent... Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hey all... Sorry for being so quiet lately. Haven't had any time to devote to this :( Version changes: yes, i'll get that fixed and tested against 7.1. Duet support: I did make a start on this... It's functional but not polished. Perhaps I should make available what I've done and hope someone submits patches? Boom support: shouldn't be too hard. Three lines is a great idea - I'll have a go and report back. Is there Boom emulation in SoftSqueeze? Apologies again for being so slack! Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
ggjw;303153 Wrote: > Well I don't understand this - I tried installing it again (for 5th or > 6th time!) and this time after starting up SqueezeCentre and clicking > on settings next to LiveDeparture on plugin tab I get the page that > allows me to enter routes. Seriously I tried this a few mins before and > it didn't work with same error that I posted previously. > Anyway, I seem to be sorted but please note in case any other members > have similar problem and think that they are going mad :) Hi... pleased to see you're sorted. Hope it doesn't go wrong again! 'Tis strange that people are having trouble though, with this plugin but not any others. There's definitely something amiss, but I can't think what it could be... Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
OK, I've had a chance to investigate - and I can't get it to fail. Here's what I did (on a pristine Ubuntu machine): - downloaded SqueezeCenter 7.0 (from the 'SlimDevices download page' (http://www.slimdevices.com/su_downloads.html), the .tar.gz version) - downloaded version 2.2.193 of LiveDepartures (from [url=http://wiki.insignificant.org/index.php?title=LiveDepartures]my Wiki) - uncompressed the tarball to a folder in my home directory - 'cd squeezecenter-7.0-17793/Plugins' - unzipped the LiveDepartures zip file - 'cd ..' - ./slimserver.pl - browse to 'http://localhost:9000' - followed the setup wizard - click 'Settings', 'Plugins', 'Live Departures Settings' - entered two stations, selected some underground stations, pressed 'Save' - launched SoftSqueeze to check the screensaver works If I shift-click on the 'Live Departures Settings' link (so the plugin settings appear in new window), the URL is shown as: http://localhost:9000/settings/plugins/LiveDepartures/settings/basic.html?player=... Which is exactly the URL that is causing you trouble. Curious... I think I need to think a little more! :-( Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hello again, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you all. I should be able to look at this now... To the two people having problems: can you let me know, please, exactly which version of SqueezeCenter you are running? I'm running revision 19193 from SVN (http://svn.slimdevices.com/repos/slim/7.0/trunk/server) and it all seems OK for me... (I go to the settings page, select the Plugins tab, then hit the 'settings' link next to "Live Departures") Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hmm, that's not great :( I tend to run the trunk version of SC7, and don't update as often as I probably should. 'Tis odd that it should stop working... You've caught me in the middle of my honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands, so I can't investigate right now, but I'll have a look in a few day's time. Sorry for the inconvenience! Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC error - Can't locate object method "parse"
I must admit I didn't try deleting the caches, only the preferences - that seemed to make Alien disappear completely. I did get it working though - by getting a new checkout of SC7 from trunkinto a clean directory, then installing Alien again. (thanks for your ideas, bpa) Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43268 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC error - Can't locate object method "parse"
Installed from the zip file here: http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/alienbbc-linux-v2.00beta5_7.0.tar.gz According to these instructions: http://www.x2systems.com/AlienBBC/ The capitalization looks to be consistent with another (working) plugin though: Code: # find . -name basic.html -print ./Alien/HTML/EN/plugins/Alien/settings/basic.html ./LiveDepartures/HTML/EN/plugins/LiveDepartures/settings/basic.html (This is running on a linux box) Matthew -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43268 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC error - Can't locate object method "parse"
I would try that but, alas, the AlienBBC settings page is blank. When I try to access the settings, this appears in the log: Code: [08-02-10 19:13:40.1757] Slim::Web::HTTP::_generateContentFromFile (2324) Error: file error - : not found A little extra debugging hackery shows that the filename it's trying to open is an empty string... :( -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43268 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] AlienBBC error - Can't locate object method "parse"
Hey folks, I'm running trunk SC7 and AlienBBC beta 5, seeing this error in my log: Code: [08-02-09 16:32:05.4071] Slim::Buttons::XMLBrowser::gotError (166) Error: While retrieving [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/localradio/list.shtml]: [Can't locate object method "parse" via package "Plugins::Alien::Parsers::AodParser" (perhaps you forgot to load "Plugins::Alien::Parsers::AodParser"?) at /opt/SC7/Slim/Formats/XML.pm line 188. ] This is when I select any menu item under "AlienBBC". Thanks in advance for any ideas! Matthew :) -- mflint 'LiveDepartures plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures) - 'GoalRush plugin' (http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush) - 'Occasional blog' (http://insignificant.org/) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43268 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Always on clock screensaver?
Someone - might have been Michael Herger - did write a 'ServerSwitcher' plugin, so it is possible to programatically switch a client from one server to another. The trick is in doing it at the right time, just before the server goes to sleep. Once it's asleep, you're stuck. Matthew -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43137 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
adrianw;263702 Wrote: > Hi, > I've worked out what the problem was, I think it was a > mis-understanding on how the system worked, or possibly not [reading] > the instructions ;-) I know that feeling! adrianw;263702 Wrote: > Hope this is clear, and thanks for writing something very useful, saves > me from doing it :) No problem, my pleasure :-) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush and LiveDepartures plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Erk... that doesn't look great. The only thing that comes immediately to mind: the settings page doesn't yet work well with the "Apply" button which comes for free with SqueezeCenter in the bottom-right corner. Instead, you should use the "Save" button inside the settings pane itself. If that's not it, then I'll need to quiz you further! Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush and LiveDepartures plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
bouton;216192 Wrote: > Thanks for the great plugin! - want to do one for the london underground > now? ;) It took a while, but it's done now! There's a new version (2.2.193) on the website. Note that this requires SqueezeCenter 7. http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures Two significant new features: * London Underground * extra detail for journeys (where available). This will give extra detail for Underground lines when the service isn't good, and departure platforms for stations such as Birmingham. Matthew +---+ |Filename: LiveDepartures-config.jpg| |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4065| +---+ -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Concert Calendar
peterw;242477 Wrote: > This sounds interesting, and it sounds like a good candidate for the > SaverSwitcher pre-usage check hooks. > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33598 I like your style - you're right, it's a good fit. peterw;242477 Wrote: > It's a shame iConcertCal is so tied to iTunes -- it would be nice if it > could field ad-hoc queries about individual artists, so that this > plugin could query & report on concerts for artists played on Internet > Radio streams, Pandora, Rhapsody, etc. > > Also a shame that it's Mac & Windows only. I wonder if there are web > services that could be used to build this sort of info. > > -Peter Yep, 'tis a shame, as I can't imagine it's the kind of data that lends itself to being maintained in a co-ordinated manner, or indeed in a small number of definitive places iConcertCal uses NME for its UK listings, and their website imples that they have a feed from NME. I've emailed NME about this potential feed and await their response. Otherwise it'll be (yet another) screen-scraping exercise! Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40193 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Concert Calendar
alexg;242305 Wrote: > Thank you Matthew for giving it a look. > > From looking at iConcertCal as a model, I quite like the calendar look. > The idea of a personal concert calendar based on the artists in my > collection gets me pretty jazzed. It gets me "jazzed" too. (If I understand the meaning of the word properly!) alexg;242305 Wrote: > I envision a plugin that somehow tells me about upcoming shows for all > the artists in my collection, rather than just for those artists that I > may be playing at the time. The possibility to exclude certain artists > (i.e. either 1-by-1 or even by genre) would be very nice. > > Maybe a screensaver that would auto-scroll through the upcoming shows > for that evening or for that weekend/week? Maybe you could set the > length of time it looks out into the future. This could get very long, > though. > > Maybe an alert as you mentioned or the way Herger's biography plugin > works(click to the plugin as the song is playing), but again these > operate in a more artist-by-artist fashion. Yep, I had similar thoughts about the Biography plugin too. To summarise my thoughts: - certainly would want to display a calendar in the SlimCenter web interface and/or on the Jive remote - make the calendar available to other applications via '_iCal_' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) - possibly show a screensaver with up-coming gigs based on your location - possibly enable some context-aware feature, based on the current artist I did a bit of hacking last night, in a kind of "proof-of-concept" way. Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40193 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Concert Calendar
Probably wouldn't be able to use iConcertCal directly, but it's certainly possible to do something similar, by reading the same feeds or screenscraping the same webpages. (_'example_webpage' (http://www.nme.com/index.php?class=giglisting&view=search&keyword=nottingham&field=m.city&perpage=100&datefrom=12-11-2007&period=year)_ - NME has no RSS feed for gigs, as far as I can tell) How would you see it working? As an alert on the screen when you play a particular artist, as a screensaver which interrupts the normal screensavers, or something else? (Mmm, interesting!) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40193 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Turn SB3 display upside down?
Cybermansrevenge;237501 Wrote: > This would seem like a great idea, I know I'd like a SB3 in the kitchen > without cluttering the work surfaces, does anyone think such a plug-in > is doable? or indeed is there already a plug in which does this that I > don't know about? > Many Thanks I've never seen a plugin which does this, but the possibilty has been discussed before: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30745 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22360 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=15633 And there's an open feature request here: http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3994 -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39316 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze & SSH - idiot guide please
thewallofsound;236285 Wrote: > I was hoping to use the SSH support within softsqueeze 3. Ah - I've never tried that. Hopefully someone else can help... thewallofsound;236285 Wrote: > How can I test that openSSH is working correctly on the home machine? You should be able to ssh into the machine with something like this: Code: ssh @ Trying from a machine outside your network would be best, but as a first test you can test from the machine itself: Code: ssh @127.0.0.1 Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Softsqueeze & SSH - idiot guide please
First, you'll need to check that the SSH port (22) isn't barred too. You'll need to have a machine in your home network running sshd/openssh/dropbear. Then, you'll need to make sure that incoming connections from the internet are routed to that machine. (If you have a NAT router, it'll be called something like 'port forwarding' or 'default server') On your work machine, you'll need a SSH client (like PuTTY). In the PuTTY config, there is a 'Tunnels' section. Tunnel source port 3483 to destination "123.456.789.012:3483 Local", where 123.456.789.012 is the IP address of your slimserver machine in your home network. Then login to the home machine using PuTTY - this will open the tunnel at the same time. Then connect SoftSqueeze to 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost'. If port 22 is blocked by your firewall (as mine is) then you might like to try adding an HTTP Tunnel into the mix. So the music is tunnelled through SSH, and SSH is tunnelled through HTTP on port 80 or 8080. Hope that helps :-) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Lazy Man Seeking SC7 Plugin List
A single place to list all SC7-compatible plugins is a good idea, but I fear it'd be difficult to keep a forum thread on-topic. (Excuse me - I need to update the Wiki. Oops!) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38997 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announcing SaverSwitcher: plugin that cycles through screensavers
Hey all, I've noticed that occasionally the screensaver stops being updated. I haven't done extensive testing, but don't remember seeing the problem before I installed the SaverSwitcher beta for SC7. Has anyone else seen this? Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32230 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Turn SB3 display upside down?
I've done that on an SB2 - looks good in the kitchen. The ribbon cable is just long enough to accommodate the twist... As far as I know it's more difficult on the SB3 - although I haven't been brave enough to open the case myself. Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39316 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
If anyone's waiting for a V7-compatible plugin, there's one here: http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
*heh* that was the silliest mistake... I've uploaded a fix, which also (I hope) better handles the case when the livedepartures website cannot be contacted. Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
OK, I've tried it again... It works if you access the settings by selecting "SqueezeCenter settings" from the main page, then choose "Live Departures" in the drop-down list. If you choose "Extras" from the drop-down list, then "Live Departures" and "Settings", then it doesn't work. More investigation needed, but you should be able to make some progress... Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Gah - will try again. I tested it all fine, then had trouble in the packaging. Maybe the "PluginBuilder" stuff has borked it... Sorry lad - watch this space! M -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hey all, If any of you brave souls are making the leap to SqueezeCenter v7.0, then there's a (beta quality) version of LiveDepartures now available. Other than being v7-compatible, this has no new features. http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures Feedback / bug reports welcome :) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] compile perl in eclipse
It's not very high-tech, but I use /bin/vi and fill my code with: Code: print (Dumper(%something) . "\n"); I'm sure there are more advanced ways to do it though :) Good luck... Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39016 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Raptor;229465 Wrote: > I naively thought it would be a minor amendment but being a coder (not a > perler) and having looked at the before and after code it obviously > wasn't that straightforward. There wasn't a huge change needed - but it needed more tidying up anyway. Raptor;229465 Wrote: > Still, GoalRush and LiveDepartures have inspired me to look into > knocking up something myself, don't all hold your breath though... ;-) Excellent! The great thing about plugins is that there are so many about now... and therefore plenty of opportunity for some code-plagiarism :-) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Triode;228612 Wrote: > Fancy making this an addon for InfoBrowser so people can read it on > jive? http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?InformationBrowser Ooh, I don't see why not. I've been putting off investigating both SS7 and Jive, for fear that it'll take up even more time that I don't have :-) But I think it's overdue. I do need to make my plugins SS7-compatible, and I'd hope the API is stable enough now... Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Sorry for the delay chaps. There's a new version here: http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush Feedback welcome, as always :-) Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Time has only allowed for a quick investigation, but it looks like the HTML content of the BBC Videprinter page has changed slightly. There always was the possibility that it'd suddenly break. (Same goes for LiveDepartures too) I'll try to get a fixed version up soon. Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
Erm, sorry Simon, I don't have any immediate suggestions. Looking at the code (for the first time in six months) there's not much debugging in there. :-( I'll try it out at home later and hope to have an answer then - I haven't used it myself for a while. Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] StockQuotes doesnt work anymore
davep;223611 Wrote: > I think at the moment I'd be glad if it didn't work :) > > davep Unless you're going short ;-) Seriously though... it doesn't look like anything's broken on the Yahoo! side. (See _'this_link' (http://quote.yahoo.com/d/quotes.cgi?s=CPWR,SUN,IBM,ORCL,BEAS,RHAT&f=sl1d1t1c1ohgv&e=.csv)_ for an example CSV output from the Yahoo! quotes website) Is this a permanent error, or just intermittent? Does the hyperlink above return a suitable CSV file? Have you tried rolling back to SlimServer 6.5.3? Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37999 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] "ArtistPlaylist" - Dynamic playlists by artist
Erm, wow, thanks for the detailed feedback Erland :-) I'll certainly make those changes. Storing the Artist name rather than the ID certainly is necessary, but I fear that it'll be more problematic that it sounds. Regarding my incorrect use of the "split" function, could this be the reason why shuffled playlists appear to work OK, but I couldn't understand why?! If so, is there a recommended way to allow shuffled Dynamic Playlists? Matthew -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37867 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] "ArtistPlaylist" - Dynamic playlists by artist
Hey all, -*Note* this is fresh fresh fresh code, and not tested very much. Feedback welcome...- INTRO This plugin, which uses Erland's _'Dynamic_Playlist_Plugin' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Dynamic_Playlist_plugin)_, maintains dynamic playlists based on artist selection. For more details and for the download, here's the link: _http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/ArtistPlaylist_ BUGS Beware! Artists are stored in the settings by their IDs, which means that if you do a complete "clear and rescan" of your library, then the playlists will get confused. All solution ideas welcome! This is the first hacky release, so there will surely be other bugs. Matthew +---+ |Filename: artistplaylist.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3170| +---+ -- mflint 'GoalRush , LiveDepartures and ArtistPlaylist plugins' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37867 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose (slimserver windowsfrontend) 0.57
Hmmm, a .NET application. Has anyone tried it with 'Mono' (http://www.mono-project.com/) under Linux? Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37427 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Need help with html parsing w/ perl
Or, you could use this as a great opportunity to master regular expressions! ;-) (I looked at the "Mechanize" route for my 'LiveDepartures' plugin... Mechanize would do the job very well, but I wondered whether it's was a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' solution, and didn't want to burden users with having to install more stuff) Your project sounds interesting - look forward to hearing about your progress! Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37332 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Re: adding information about The Tube: Good idea - if that data is available, it should be possible to hack it in. I may investigate... Re: moving through departing trains on one route: I don't think this is a five-minute job, but not too big a task. It all depends what you want to achieve. An alternative (possibly more flexible) would be to add two more settings to each route: 1. omit departures/arrivals within the next n minutes 2. only show n arrivals/departures So if you were a 15 minute walk away from the station, you could restrict the resultset to the next 3 trains departing no earlier than 15 minutes from now. Both of those would need some work in sorting all the departures into time order. (They are usually, but not always) Unfortunately they day job is getting in the way again... but patches always welcome! ;-) Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Thanks again guys for your help in debugging this plugin. I've uploaded a new version: http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Slightly off-topic I know, but I *love* the collaborative nature of this forum! -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Rodlogic> "Platform" eh? Well I never! I hadn't seen that before... I thought I'd done a fair amount of testing too, on the little line I use every day, and also routes in/out of Leeds and Manchester to get a good load of routes. Ceejay> Thanks again for making a patch - I'll take a look. I'm sure it'll be fine though :) I did ask NationalRail (twice!) if they had a more friendly interface, such as a WebService... but never received any reply at all. Without a definitive description of the possible results (such as WSDL or XML Schema) there's always the possibility of breakage. I also fear them rolling out enhancements to their service which cause further incompatibilities... Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Cool! :-) Thanks again for the patch - I'll make sure I include it. Speaking of bugs, I do see the plugin occasionally fail to grab times off the net, but doens't report the error. Instead, it just displays: -- >From To No Departures -- Not sure why it happens, but that's top of my list of things to fix when I have a spare hour... Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Thanks for that CeeJay. Your fix is good... see the webpage for a newly packaged version. http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hi folks, I've done another release, which should fix the problem CeeJay was having. Rather than using "Now Playing" button to switch routes, my Other Half suggested using the Up and Down buttons instead. Much more sensible... It also now works through the "Plugins->Screensavers->LiveDepartures" menu on the Squeezebox, so it's now not necessary to set it as a screensaver. Feedback still welcome, of course! Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
CeeJay... thanks for te suggestion about the change of wording - yes, that makes sense. I'm disappointed you're having trouble with changing routes. I must admit I've only been using it (and testing it) in "power off screensaver" mode, so I guess something else is grabbing the keypress event when the SB is powered on. I'll investigate :-) M -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hi all, There's a new version here: http://insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures The major new feature is the ability to enter multiple routes and different journey types. No time now to explain - will give more details over the weekend... Have fun! Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Caller ID help.
Raymond, In the "Server Settings" part of the web interface, the plugin should be listed and enabled. If it's not listed, you'll need to stop and restart SlimServer. If it's still not there, I'd start SlimServer from the command line, with: Code: $ ./slimserver.pl --d_startup --d_plugins ... to see if there are any errors when the plugin is started. Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36256 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
skyedog;205237 Wrote: > ...it really is. Thank you. > > Now -how about an alarm clock function, that deducts a user-specified > number of minutes from the expected arrival time of a given train and > wakes me up then? I would - quite seriously - pay good money for that > - with FirstGreatWestern's service on my line, the extra sleep I'd get > would be well worth it...:) Thanks for the kind words... I wouldn't take any payment, but could suggest a charity or two that donations could be sent to :-) The next version is still "work-in-progress". Ceejay, I'd like to have a version for testing as soon as possible, but there's a house-move to get through first :-/ Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
ggjw;201974 Wrote: > I love the idea of this plugin and actually signed up for the forum just > so that I can add my voice to make the destination optional! > > I travel into London and can go to any of London Bridge, Canon Street > or London Waterloo East - if I put any one station in then it restricts > the possible trains (note that not all services stop at London Bridge!). > On the website's timetable you can enter "London" to get around this but > there is no three letter code for this from what I can see. > > Please keep the enhamcements coming! Hey, thanks for that. By chance, I'm working on it now (for the first time in weeks) Unfortunately, my day job has been getting in the way for a while... :-/ The plugin uses the Live Departure Boards website (_'link' (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/ldb/)_). For your "generic trains to London" query, I'd like to see the URL of the results page - all I get is an error about "London" being an ambiguous destination. Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
cparker;192536 Wrote: > hmm I've been getting a Data Fetch Error all day today, is it just me?? > :( No, not just you. I tried going to the 'livedepartureboards' website directly and it just timed out for me too. It seems to be back this morning. Though (strangely) my regular train has been missing from the website all week. The train before and the train after both appear OK, but not mine. It's there on the WAP site (if accessed via my mobile phone, or with the Opera browser) but not on the web. Odd! :-( -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
cparker;192263 Wrote: > Can we have some funky dropping down text as well, like those proper old > skool annoucement boards?! :) Of course! I'll have a test version sent to you immediately by flying pig. ;) -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
ceejay;192189 Wrote: > One minor thing you might want to do - change the names of the > prefs-file entries so they start with "plugin_livedepartures" which > would fit the general model. Ah yes... for things like that, I generally choose another random plugin to look at, to determine general customs and practices in SlimServer plugin coding. Perhaps in that case I chose wrong! ceejay;192189 Wrote: > Also, without wanting to put you off, have you considered the impact of > SS 7.0, see e.g. > http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?SlimServer7Plugins Yes, I've thought about it... enough to install SS 7.0 alongside 6.5.2 on my dev box. But haven't gone any further, as I understand the 7.0 API is still fluid. If we had a definite release schedule (or even a vague one!) for 7.0, it'd make it easier for plugin developers to plan their migration. Right now, it's rather a moving target - and there's little incentive to migrate just yet while use of 7.0 isn't widespread. ceejay;192189 Wrote: > Your proposed set of enhancements looks great. Just one thing - if you > are coding to be able to show arrivals instead of departures (last > bullet), would it be possible to define a preferred pair where the > arrival time is shown (eg show the arrival times at Slough for all > trains from Paddington), this would be especially useful for the > prospective taxi driver waiting at home... Ah, that'd be CeeJayCabs I guess?! ;-) I think we need four views: - all departures from - departures from to - all arrivals at - arrivals at from -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
ceejay;192068 Wrote: > ... telling me exactly how fast I had to rush... Ain't it always the way? Glad it works for you. :) I've been playing with the Template Toolkit (nice!), and will soon have a version which can handle multiple routes. Here's the plan: - enter multiple start and/or destination stations for your favourite routes - on first run, client displays details for the first route - switch from one route to the next by pressing 'favourite' (I hope that'll be easy to remember) - each client to remember the last route displayed - if only the start station is entered, it'll display all departures. If only the destination station, it'll show all arrivals -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
@Jens: It's good, but does display a lot of information. I wonder if this could be an option to turn on in the settings? (Or the simpler version could be an option to turn on!) We'd have to put a longer delay into the journey-switching too, as I can't read it fast enough... I really do like the improvements you've made to the HTML parsing. Regular expressions are good at what they do, but I can never debug them if I've slept since writing them! ;) @Ceejay: Thanks for the kind words :) With Jens' version, starting SlimServer in debug mode gave me the error "Can't locate WWW/Mechanize.pm". (To fix this, I installed the Ubuntu package "libwww-mechanize-perl") I'm torn; Mechanise, at a glance, will make the thing much easier to maintain, but do we force folks to install extra libraries? -I'd be interested to hear people's views on this.- Re: your enhancement request for extending the number of possible journeys: yes, I've wondered about that. I've also wondered about having journeys set per squeezebox too. But how to switch between them? To use the digits would probably conflict with the SaverSwitcher plugin. Could use up/down, I suppose, to switch... -(Aside: I use SaverSwitcher in its manual mode: pressing 1 displays DateTime, 2 gives LiveDepartures, 3 gives _'GoalRush' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/GoalRush)_, 4 gives TimeSpeller. I don't want or need LiveDepartures to be running full time)- This might lead to a wider discussion about the direction of ScreenSavers - whether we need to extend the Saver API somewhat, or come up with something new for this type of application: it's clear that people are now using their Slim devices as 'information gathering' devices. I'm not totally convinced that the ScreenSaver route is the best suited device for stuff like LiveDepartures... Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Jens... That's cool. I'm rather a novice with Perl, so didn't know WWW:Mechanize even existed. (Though I should have guessed!) Will take a look over the weekend. It's nice to know folks are interested enough to hack the code! :-) Would you mind me taking your changes and updating the version on my hacked-together webpage...? Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
cparker;191169 Wrote: > Hi Matthew > > Quick one, I removed the destination station to activate the above and > it tells me its an invalid entry. > > New value for destStation rejected: > Invalid value specified: > > Am I doing something wrong?? > > Cheers No, it's my bad. I should have made it clearer: that it's on the "TODO" list, not the "DONE" list ;-) Will let you know... Matthew -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Okey doke, there's an updated version _'here' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/LiveDepartures)_, in a hastily-thrown-together wiki thing. It'll now show multiple journeys, cycling through them in turn. 10 seconds for the next departure, 5 seconds for the others. Rinse and repeat. No config for this yet, just a proof of concept, 'cos my coding after a beer or two ain't that great! ;-) M -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hey cparker, Thanks for the positive feedback! It makes a slightly-p*ssed bloke very happy on a Monday evening... > How about adding a return option, so that I can see what time my wife is > getting home from London. You could have the display cycle between them > or even have an option to have the return journey be the primary > display say after lunchtime. That's a great plan - I like it :) > Also if its possible how about a press up and down buttons to see the > next train thats coming? Yep, it's on the list. "The Law Of Sod" said that I needed that feature this morning, after making the plugin public just 8 hours previously. :) For your info, the other functional item on the list is to make the "destination" station optional, so it shows every arrival/departure from the "start" station. M -- mflint 'Clicky-woo linky' (http://www.insignificant.org/wiki/index.php/Slim_Plugins) to web page of my plugins mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
Hey cparker, Thanks for the positive feedback! It makes a slightly-p*ssed bloke very happy on a Monday evening... > How about adding a return option, so that I can see what time my wife is > getting home from London. You could have the display cycle between them > or even have an option to have the return journey be the primary > display say after lunchtime. That's a great plan - I like it :) > Also if its possible how about a press up and down buttons to see the > next train thats coming? Yep, it's on the list. "The Law Of Sod" said that I needed that feature this morning, after making the plugin public just 8 hours previously. :) For your info, the other functional item on the list is to make the "destination" station optional, so it shows every arrival/departure from the "start" station. M -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: LiveDepartures screensaver plugin
All, This is a screensaver plugin to display running information for UK trains. I use it (along with 'SaverSwitcher') to see whether my trip to the station each morning will be a sprint or a leisurely walk. Usage: unzip to the Plugins directory, restart SlimServer. Use the "Server Settings / Plugins" web page to configure the start and destination stations. These need to be the 3-letter station codes. (eg. YRK=York, LDS=Leeds, LIV=Liverpool, SHF=Sheffield) Comments / bugreports welcome. Matthew +---+ |Filename: LiveDepartures-1.0.zip | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2592| +-------+ -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33913 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SaverSwitcher: beta of API for conditional use of particular screensavers
Ooh that's funky - I like your thinking! Will try it out... Cheers, Matthew -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33598 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] announcing SaverSwitcher: plugin that cycles through screensavers
peterw;180415 Wrote: > You might want to look at my latest version. You can manually switch to > savers that aren't normally used. For instance, you could set Date and > Time as the only active "Off" saver (#1; give it a duration of a minute > or something), and set TrainInfo(?) as a "Manual" saver (#2). In the > mornings you could press "2" on the remote to switch to TrainInfo until > you press "1" or "0" to return to Date and Time. It's not as good as > what you envision, but if you've not found time to code your solution, > you might find this new function valuable (my thanks to nicketynik and > Daz Barber for the suggestions). Similarly, you could set GoalRush as > #3, Manual, and manually activate it with the the "3" key on Saturday > afternoons. > > -Peter > http://www.tux.org/~peterw/slim/SaverSwitcher.html Peter... It took a week to get around to it, but I've just installed the plugin. It work exactly as you described, and is certainly more flexible than the idea I imagined. Good work - I'll be keeping this one. :-) Cheers, Matthew -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32230 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: slimfx - Flash-based Skin / Control App
A big thumbs up from me - jolly good work! I'm especially happy because my slimserver box is rather underpowered (it's a Kurobox) and the web interface is pretty slow. -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32422 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: announcing SaverSwitcher: plugin that cycles through screensavers
Excellent - I was thinking of something similar myself. My idea was to run different screensavers according to a set timetable. Example: I'd like my "is my train running on time" screensaver* to be displayed between 7:30 and 8:00 each weekday morning, and 'GoalRush ' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165) to run between 15:00 and 17:00 each Saturday. I'll investigate yours - good work! Matthew * not complete yet! -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32230 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: GoalRush (UK football scores screensaver)
In a '_thread_' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31615) two weeks ago, 'mervyn' suggested a plugin to display UK football scores. I suggested that it wouldn't be too hard to parse a webpage at the BBC. And I was right - it wasn't hard. But plumbing it into a SlimServer screensaver... well that was more difficult! Anyway, here it is. It's very basic, and works only as a screensaver. The up/down buttons scroll through all the goal-flashes (with item #1 in the list being the most recent). Every 10 seconds the displayed line will advance (unless the most recent item is already being displayed) and every two minutes it'll fetch an updated list of stuff from Auntie Beeb. I may enhance it further, but then again I may not. ;-) Matthew +---+ |Filename: GoalRush-v0.1.tar.gz | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2322| +-------+ -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32165 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Interactive screensaver?
Thanks for the advice Greg - I found it by hacking around with the PacMan game! -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32159 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Interactive screensaver?
Hello folks... I'm struggling here, and would appreciate a pointer or two: I have the basics of a screensaver written which shows one item from an array of strings. But I'd like for the display to be like this: > Blah (15 of 33) > This is item fifteen I'd like to be able to control the item being displayed programmatically (automatic scrolling) and via the remote "UP" and "DOWN" buttons. Most of the problems I'm having are to do with the "lines()" function, and the lack of documentation about the capabilities of the "client" object. Questions: - can a screensaver's "functions" map respond to IR commands? I can't get it to work using a combination of '_this_wiki_page_' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginScreenSavers) and '_this_one_' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?PluginFunctions) - can I somehow return "line 2 => @someArray" from my screenSaverLines() function, and have slimserver magically handle the display of one item from the array? - and if so, how do I programatically change the displayed index? Questions questions questions...! Thanks in advance! Matthew -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32159 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Guidance for new plugin developers?
Thanks all - most helpful. And the "FileViewer" plugin was just what I was looking for :-) One more question though: I seem to have trouble getting slimserver to recognise changes to the plugin - so what do the rest of you do? Do you all restart slimserver each time you make a change to your plugin, or am I missing something? The "scan for plugins on demand" setting (I forget its exact name) doesn't seem to help, and the "plugin" debug option doesn't generate any output in /var/log/slimserver :-( Thanks again! Matthew -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31724 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Guidance for new plugin developers?
Hello all... I've been looking at the "Developing plugins" pages in the Wiki, and I've been struggling to get even the most basic plugin to be recognised by SlimServer. So I have a couple of queries: 1. Is there a lump of skeleton plugin code which can be used as the basis for new development projects? If not, would the SlimServer crew consider creating and maintaining a "Hello World" plugin? Such a plugin would (I guess) be less than a couple of Kb in size, and most of that comments 2. Are there any docs available to say which parts of SlimServer constitute an "API", and which are internal? I didn't see much evidence of a "best practices" document in the Wiki. I have looked at the code for other plugins, but there's no guarantee that they're not using nasty tricks 3. What about any formal API documentation? I'm sure there'll be tons of routines in SlimServer that would be available for plugin devs to use, but are not generally known about and therefore often re-invented. How about a list of callbacks available from SlimServer to plugins? 4. I wonder which forum would be best suited for discussions about plugin development? This one seems to be more about announcements and discussions of released plugins... do all you developers write your plugins in isolation? Er, I think that's all for now! I've probably got my SlimServer / perl terminology all wrong, but I hope you get the gist of what I'm looking for. Thanks in advance... Matthew :-) -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31724 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: UK Football Scores
meryvn;170084 Wrote: > This wouldn't work as an RSS feed, would it? Nope! But it shouldn't be too hard to parse the source code for that webpage... ;-) I'm tempted, but it's late and I've been ripping my CD collection into the early hours for the past week. -*yawn*- -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31615 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: UK Football Scores
'This would do nicely ! [link]' (http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/live_videprinter/default.stm?refresh) (I might have a go...) -- mflint mflint's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31615 ___ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
