Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Test] Repo for LMS 7.9.0 on Synology DSM 5.*

2016-05-26 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I upgraded to DSM 6 on my 412+ and am also now running Martin's fantastic Lmsupdate. Absolutely no problems on either front. (I'd read of some issues with the VPN server package but that and other packages including LMS are all running trouble free.) SBB > On May 26, 2016, at 5:53 AM, pinkdot

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2014-11-26 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I had a look. It's not trivial to say the least. Actually I'd say it's not doable at all. Here's a quick summary of why: The main page (for your zip code/location) loads a lot of scripts, one of which has the JSONP payload we want. So the first step would need to be something that still parses

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2013-02-17 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Anyone have an answer for this? Weather.Com and Yahoo are like 6+ degrees different for some reason (Yahoo feeling more accurate, ironically). My zip is 97202 or 97212. I'd like to use a Weather Underground station, but if I leave the Weather.com zip blank, it defaults to 60614. If I put

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2013-02-12 Thread Steve Baumgarten
SuperDateTime hasn't been parsing the new ESPN web site correctly for NBA scores for some time now. I played around with the code the other day (while watching the Knicks lose to the Clippers -- something only slightly less predictable than ESPN changing the HTML on its site) and patched the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2013-02-12 Thread Steve Baumgarten
jallison wrote: I still use SDT. I don't follow the NBA and the NHL is not playing so I haven't noticed any problems with sports scores. I still get valid weather data from Weather Underground, so I know that's working. - Jeff I do think Weather.com parsing is broken; I just posted a fix

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Album Flow applet/screensaver for Radio/Touch/Controller

2011-10-04 Thread Steve Baumgarten
The settings can be reached in on your Controller/Touch/Radio in: Settings/Screen/Screensavers/Album Flow Settings The Browse Style setting is the one you are looking for if you like to change the My Music/Album Flow behavior. Got it. Now I guess what's really needed is some sort of

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Album Flow applet/screensaver for Radio/Touch/Controller

2011-10-02 Thread Steve Baumgarten
., full screen images), but if so, I have no idea how to access them. What am I missing? -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=455 View this thread: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2011-06-12 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Mine too is still not working. Applied the manual patch but still no luck. Copied back original .par but it is still not working. I found that just manually editing the par file wasn't enough, since even after a restart it seemed like the changes weren't being picked up. I then had to

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2011-06-12 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Thus, at line 3067, I would do: # first try without a space... @matches = $tree-look_down( _tag, td, class, twc-col-2 ); # if that didn't work, try WITH the space... if (scalar @matches == 0) { @matches = $tree-look_down( _tag, td, class, twc-col-2 ); } This'll at least give you a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2010-06-11 Thread Steve Baumgarten
the 5.9.1 version. Very easy. Restart the server and it'll be working again. SBB -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=455 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SDT install question ( should I unzip Plugins-SuperDateTime-Plugin.par file)

2010-01-25 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Normally you don't unzip the par file as part of installation. If you want to replace the existing Plugin.pm file with the modified one you downloaded, I recommend unzipping the .par file (preserving the directory structure), replacing the Plugin.pm file in the correct place

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SuperDateTime stopped working ?

2010-01-22 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I've increased the refresh time from 5 to 10 minutes and I think it's updating more successfully now. I tend to agree, I think they've introduced some form of anti abuse system on the site. If this is the case it might be worth considering different update frequencies for weather vs. sports.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] SuperDateTime stopped working ?

2010-01-21 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I haven't been following the anti 7.4 movement, in summary what's the issue with it? For what it's worth, I recently upgraded to 7.4.1 (release version) from a 7.3 build, this is on Windows XP. No problems at all, in fact it really seems better in a number of ways. I recommend it to anyone

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] TrackStat survey, what's most important ?

2009-06-02 Thread Steve Baumgarten
and hear the playlist in random mode at any time -- much, much easier than manual playlist editing. (Playlist editing being one of SqueezeCenter's perennially weakest points.) I would probably stop upgrading SqueezeCenter if we lost that functionality. -- Steve Baumgarten

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2009-04-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
- Secondly, whatever option I try, I can't get any team icons to appear. Tried reselecting teams, etc, with no luck. I'm guessing this was due to my quick fix for MLB parsing which I passed along to Greg the other day. I don't use team icons so I never tested this, but now looking at the code I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists as Favorites and Alarms

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Baumgarten
1. How to set up a Favorite that plays a Dynamic Playlist Use the heart icon in the web interface or go to SqueezeCenter Settings/Plugins/Dynamic Playlists/Favorite Playlists and check the playlist you like to setup as a favorite. Yes! 2. How to set up an Alarm that plays a Dynamic

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Dynamic Playlists as Favorites and Alarms

2009-03-29 Thread Steve Baumgarten
a nightly) and the latest version of Erland's excellent plugins via the Extension Downloader (Dynamic Playlist 2.7; SQL Playlist 2.4; Trackstat 2.8). Using the DefaultCB skin. -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2009-02-26 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I've got some free time this coming weekend and would like to 'tweak' the NCAA basketball parsing if possible. Should I look at the recent changes to NHL/NBA code? Definitely, it'll be exactly the same change. In fact the NHL parsing code is just about byte for byte the same as the NBA code (I

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I was going to post about that last night, no reminiders or scores for the nhl here either. Ever figure out a fix for this? I for the life of me can't figure out why it isn't displaying now. It's possible that ESPN has just rolled out the same changes to its NHL pages as it has to its NBA

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2009-01-19 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I think this happened with NCAA Mens Basketball as well :( Looks like you're right. The good news is that with about 10 minutes of effort I've copied/pasted the existing NBA parsing code into the NHL parser and it looks promising. Just have to wait for some games to start tonight so I can check

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-11-23 Thread Steve Baumgarten
them there, nor in my trash. Weird. I sent you a PM with an alternate email address, maybe that will work. Glad to hear that my NBA fix worked for you, and I see you didn't even need to use a PAR file, so the end result is definitely cleaner and easier for people to inspect. SBB -- Steve Baumgarten

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-10-31 Thread Steve Baumgarten
, losing once per day is enough for them, they're definitely not playing Portland.) So it must be that ESPN has yet again changed their HTML. Seems like every season they tweak something... -- Steve Baumgarten Steve

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: Moose 0.63 (windows frontend forss sc)

2008-04-18 Thread Steve Baumgarten
The intended idea is/was to allow moose to display just a selected sub-set of your library.. A working but rather buggy implementation exists in my debug builds, and needs a bit of work to be usable. Trouble is keeping the sub-set up-to-date over rescans. Any thoughts to making it work with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I've gone ahead and posted an updated version of SuperDateTime. This version should hopefully fix the HTML parsing of MLB game info. Please let me know if you have any issues. Thanks so much, Greg. Looks like we'll have to upgrade to SqueezeCenter 7.0 since your plugin is a must have and it

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
and SuperDateTime fans... SBB -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=455 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=14327

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Baumgarten
BTW, same problem with SuperDateTime 5.0.13, but that's not surprising since I'm sure it's related to a change ESPN just made rather than a bug in the code. SBB -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-04-29 Thread Steve Baumgarten
If you watch the process in task manager when does the creeping seem to occur? Is it during a data refresh or what? Have you tried disabling different sports and stuff to see if it helps at all? I'll try a bit of experimentation today and let you know what I find; in the meantime, I'm pretty

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Baumgarten
A couple other people have reported this in the past. I haven't been able to duplicate it on my own systems so I haven't been able to determine what the cause is. Some people believe it has to do with the wunderground functionality. Do you have a wunderground station entered? You can try

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2006-04-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
GoCubs wrote: Steve is correct, the score data now appears to be coming in on one single line. Hopefully that's the only change. I believe one of the other sports (NFL?) was similar so I'll have to refresh myself in how I handled it. I definitely recommend a simple regexp to add a newline

[SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Announce: SuperDateTime - Current Date/Temperature and/or Baseball Screensaver

2006-04-05 Thread Steve Baumgarten
compliments from a 9-year-old... Thanks again for all your work on this. SBB -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=455 View this thread: http

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: SuperDateTime request: support for WNBA games

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Baumgarten
GoCubs wrote: Thanks for the message. It's good to hear my plugin has spurred your daughter's interest in sports! Baseball season is starting up... maybe they'll be interested in that. I just looked at the WNBA pages on ESPN and cannot find any pages with the schedule/scores. Once these

[SlimDevices: Plugins] SuperDateTime request: support for WNBA games

2006-03-28 Thread Steve Baumgarten
for WNBA games? I realize the season hasn't started yet, but I'm looking ahead a month or so... Thanks. SBB -- Steve Baumgarten Steve Baumgarten's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=455 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: ANNOUNCE: Updated Lazy SearchMusicplugin (r52)

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Baumgarten
I'll raise an enhancement request for the new columns tonight, I think, and I'll post back with the bug number if anyone else is interested. SD can always just bin it if it's a no-goer policy-wise. Please do; I'm sure you'll get quite a number of people voting for it. Even though LazySearch

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Couple of SuperDateTime Feature Suggestions

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Baumgarten
Thanks for the suggestions. Some time ago there was discussion on how the plugin should function for upcoming/active/final game information display. Everyone has their opinion and preference, and ultimately the current behavior/options were settled upon. If there is a common consenus to add

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: Couple of SuperDateTime Feature Suggestions

2005-11-21 Thread Steve Baumgarten
GoCubs wrote: I was actually debating this option instead of having the top line cycle. But if I go this route, I'm wondering how the interval options should work. Perhaps just a single queue instead with item/secs to display pairs. The code walks through the queue and starts from the top

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] ANNOUNCE: Plugin for much improved searching with the Squeezebox remote

2005-11-06 Thread Steve Baumgarten
hickinbottoms wrote: I'm pleased to announce that after about a year of development my plugin that provides a much faster and more convenient form of searching with the Squeezebox remote is now available. I call this the 'Lazy Search Music' plugin. Great plugin! I was just thinking the other

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] Re: SuperDateTime Screensaver NBA hang

2005-10-25 Thread Steve Baumgarten
GoCubs wrote: I actually posted a new version today, 3.6.0. This version is highly recommended, but requires SlimServer 6.2.x. The new version looks great; there's just a tiny typo on line 1132: you have 'Nicks', but it should read 'Knicks'. BTW, I'm looking forward to trying this out