Going round in circles and returning to my post #115, samba will work and workgroup settings are irrelevant if you simply set up a desktop shortcut to \\192.168.1.65\media\My Video. There is no advantage trying to go in via 'Network Devices' .
Sorry BH, I didn't want to get involved and would...
OK that's good. It proves that you have a fundamentally working network with both devices connected to it successfully via wireless.
I won't tread on BH's toes by suggesting a next step as it may just complicate things again.
Personally I use nPlayer, although VLC for iPad works equally well.
You may encounter difficulties playing HD material on anything other than an IPad Air. Prior to having one I had an iPad 3, which couldn't play HD without stuttering badly (although SD was OK), I think it simply didn't have...
My BBC recordings always start on the mark - never any prior 'adverts' (using AR, not padding).
Personally I'm not really bothered what happens after the end of a programme, as I delete the majority of them anyway.
Thanks for this.
One observation. Does it look at the recorded channel and only try and work automatically on those that are likely to have ads (i.e. non BBC)? It seems quite happy to try and process a BBC4 recording if I set it off manually, which should obviously find nothing, but it might...
May be best not to try it for the time being, since auto deleting a folder using it will also lose any sweeper configuration stored on that folder, which would need manually re-creating if and when sweeper makes that folder again in the future.
I'm working on a more sophisticated version that...
I run a little script called 'Tidy' that I knocked up every 5 minutes - seems to do the job.
*/5 * * * * /mod/bin/tidy >> /mod/tmp/tidy.log 2>&1
#!/bin/sh
ECHO=/mod/bin/busybox/echo
RM=/mod/bin/busybox/rm
WC=/mod/bin/busybox/wc
LS=/mod/bin/busybox/ls
RM=/mod/bin/busybox/rm...
That makes sense, but isn't one issue that until the destination folder has been created you can't create a sweeper rule for it to do any extra auto processing (from the webif at least), because sweeper rules are on a per-folder basis? What would be ideal is if any one sweeper rule could perform...
Yes, something along the lines of 'Super Sweeper', 'Sweeper Pro' (you get the idea :) ), which could traverse the entire folder structure from My Video downwards (unless it finds a .nosweep folder) and either rename files and/or folders (including Media List titles) as per universal rules to add...
I think you want to be applying the last rule (the rename one) on the Radio Recordings folder as a separate sweeper rule rather than on My Video. The 'If' condition will fail and find nothing because it is testing against the 'My Video' folder name - in fact I can't see how it can ever match...
On a different issue to above, could sweeper be used as an alternative to newk? If there was a 'filename starts with' condition in addition to the existing 'filename contains' condition, along with an action along the lines of 'strip this from start of file and media list name' then I reckon it...
I seem to be able to set rules in Sweeper to process files that have a negative age (e.g. 'Age < -1'). Does this mean I can speculatively move a recording before it has been created? :-)
Is it possible to enable this from the webif?
I have a 'Kids' folder under 'My Video' which sweeper is nicely populating with recordings, channeling each one into a matching named folder under 'Kids' (e.g. MI High, Dennis and Gnasher etc.). However there is inevitably a lot of duplication of...
The update to v2.0.0 appears to have wiped the existing sweeper.conf on both my HDRs. Is this intentional? Not a problem as they weren't that complex and I can re-make them easily enough.
Not necessarily. You might want to be able to disable this on certain folders (probably recursively too). My kids have loads of stuff stored in their own folder structure that I certainly can't delete, but equally have no interest in how much has been watched and wouldn't want that cluttering up...
Agreed, forget all about Samba and anything to do with Network Places for the time being if all you want to do is view programmes. DLNA will suit your needs. If we can prove that DLNA is working stably then we can go back and revisit Samba, but at the moment its confusing because we're flipping...
I'd guess that given that something worked previously on 192.168.1.65 then that is probably an unusual address to have set manually and is more likely to be DHCP assigned.
Either way this would only be an issue for Samba access. The exact IP address in use would be irrelevant for DLNA purposes...
Going round in circles and returning to my post #115, samba will work and workgroup settings are irrelevant if you simply set up a desktop shortcut to \\192.168.1.65\media\My Video. There is no advantage trying to go in via 'Network Devices' .
Sorry BH, I didn't want to get involved and would...
OK that's good. It proves that you have a fundamentally working network with both devices connected to it successfully via wireless.
I won't tread on BH's toes by suggesting a next step as it may just complicate things again.
Personally I use nPlayer, although VLC for iPad works equally well.
You may encounter difficulties playing HD material on anything other than an IPad Air. Prior to having one I had an iPad 3, which couldn't play HD without stuttering badly (although SD was OK), I think it simply didn't have...
My BBC recordings always start on the mark - never any prior 'adverts' (using AR, not padding).
Personally I'm not really bothered what happens after the end of a programme, as I delete the majority of them anyway.
Thanks for this.
One observation. Does it look at the recorded channel and only try and work automatically on those that are likely to have ads (i.e. non BBC)? It seems quite happy to try and process a BBC4 recording if I set it off manually, which should obviously find nothing, but it might...
May be best not to try it for the time being, since auto deleting a folder using it will also lose any sweeper configuration stored on that folder, which would need manually re-creating if and when sweeper makes that folder again in the future.
I'm working on a more sophisticated version that...
I run a little script called 'Tidy' that I knocked up every 5 minutes - seems to do the job.
*/5 * * * * /mod/bin/tidy >> /mod/tmp/tidy.log 2>&1
#!/bin/sh
ECHO=/mod/bin/busybox/echo
RM=/mod/bin/busybox/rm
WC=/mod/bin/busybox/wc
LS=/mod/bin/busybox/ls
RM=/mod/bin/busybox/rm...
That makes sense, but isn't one issue that until the destination folder has been created you can't create a sweeper rule for it to do any extra auto processing (from the webif at least), because sweeper rules are on a per-folder basis? What would be ideal is if any one sweeper rule could perform...
Yes, something along the lines of 'Super Sweeper', 'Sweeper Pro' (you get the idea :) ), which could traverse the entire folder structure from My Video downwards (unless it finds a .nosweep folder) and either rename files and/or folders (including Media List titles) as per universal rules to add...
I think you want to be applying the last rule (the rename one) on the Radio Recordings folder as a separate sweeper rule rather than on My Video. The 'If' condition will fail and find nothing because it is testing against the 'My Video' folder name - in fact I can't see how it can ever match...
On a different issue to above, could sweeper be used as an alternative to newk? If there was a 'filename starts with' condition in addition to the existing 'filename contains' condition, along with an action along the lines of 'strip this from start of file and media list name' then I reckon it...
I seem to be able to set rules in Sweeper to process files that have a negative age (e.g. 'Age < -1'). Does this mean I can speculatively move a recording before it has been created? :-)
Is it possible to enable this from the webif?
I have a 'Kids' folder under 'My Video' which sweeper is nicely populating with recordings, channeling each one into a matching named folder under 'Kids' (e.g. MI High, Dennis and Gnasher etc.). However there is inevitably a lot of duplication of...
The update to v2.0.0 appears to have wiped the existing sweeper.conf on both my HDRs. Is this intentional? Not a problem as they weren't that complex and I can re-make them easily enough.
Not necessarily. You might want to be able to disable this on certain folders (probably recursively too). My kids have loads of stuff stored in their own folder structure that I certainly can't delete, but equally have no interest in how much has been watched and wouldn't want that cluttering up...
Agreed, forget all about Samba and anything to do with Network Places for the time being if all you want to do is view programmes. DLNA will suit your needs. If we can prove that DLNA is working stably then we can go back and revisit Samba, but at the moment its confusing because we're flipping...
I'd guess that given that something worked previously on 192.168.1.65 then that is probably an unusual address to have set manually and is more likely to be DHCP assigned.
Either way this would only be an issue for Samba access. The exact IP address in use would be irrelevant for DLNA purposes...
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