Once I removed existsing control characters from autotimer.xml it seems to work much better (for me at least).Originally Posted by Huevos
Should I do I pull request?
Now or wait until after stable release?
Last edited by BrokenUnusableAccount; 06-11-21 at 15:46. Reason: typo
I thought the problem was about epg search?
Yes, EPG search works much better without control characters, but some autotimers that were looking for names with control characters in them stopped working, so I manually fixed them so everything works well.
Last edited by BrokenUnusableAccount; 06-11-21 at 17:29. Reason: commas
Isn't that an (undesirable) side-effect of removing control characters from epg.dat. Maybe autotimer needs to ignore them as well.
(Even that wouldn't work until epg.dat had been fully re-populated. (Mine would take 7 days).)
Last edited by ccs; 06-11-21 at 18:36.
I'm unsure what I think about adding lots of stuff to ease the transition to control character free EPG.
Anyone have any opinion stronger than "maybe"?
Yes commit it. If that causes short term problems, so be it. Right now it is not working properly anyway.
Abu, I'm not sure what you mean. If I start a picon build update the ipk on the feeds will be the latest version. Only reason I haven't done that is the server is busy.
Some of my autotimers are over 7 years old, but all's well, no control characters in either of my boxes autotimer.xml files. - Freeview/terrestrial only.
Not sure what you tell people who lose timers/recordings, recreate all autotimers from scratch I guess. Or edit them if you know how.
Do timers also inherit the control characters at the moment?
Last edited by ccs; 06-11-21 at 20:05.
If they are there on the stream they are going to get added.
I don't think ordinary timers (ie non autotimers) do.
I haven't investigated why they don't, but I didn't find any control characters in my timers.xml.
Anyway I think it's irrelivant (for the case of normal timers) since it just helps identify the timer in the displayed list of timers.
Does that sound right?
It's also used to create the recording filenames when the timer starts up.
If control characters were ever lurking about then they would have been stripped out otherwise recordings would never have got started.
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Last edited by ccs; 07-11-21 at 16:02.
I use the Simple_Ten_Eighty skin.
I feel the choice of colours on the multi channel grid EPG is rather odd, in particular the way the cursor that you move around the EPG is the thing that shows the least when I feel it should show the most.
For some time I've been shuffling the .PNG files around in this skin to make it look, in my opinion, better.
Also I added a feature that seems to have been broken or forgotton that highlights things you are going to record in red.
But I'm nervous about submitting these changes as a pull request. Those who are used to the original skin might object to the changes.
In order to try and guage opinion I have made a modified version of the skin and I home people will try it and tell if what they think.
It's called Bimple_Ten_Eighty (not a serious suggestion for a good name, just something changed very slightly from the original).
enigma2-plugin-skins-openvix-bimple-ten-eighty_Test1_all.ipk
Brian can you make a patch so I can see exactly what the changes are.
A patch?
What do you mean by a patch?
It's just renaming and copying some PNG files.
This:
Code:https://github.com/BrianG61UK/skins/tree/MyS1080
Last edited by BrokenUnusableAccount; 09-11-21 at 11:54.
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