Managing Favourites with WebIf?

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SunnysideUK

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Is it possible to manage the Humax Favourite Lists via WebIf?

From the remote handset, I've setup each box with its own Favourite list, renaming with it with OPT+ to reflect the boxs' identity.
It then shows up on the EPG once selected (and I force the default Favourite List No. with the boot-settings package).
However I'd now like to add an entry to this list remotely, anyways it would be useful to do ALL of this remotly if possible?
 
Take a look at WebIF >> Schedulde Events >> Backup/Restore. The manual and auto backups preserve Favourites, so it would not be beyond the wit of man to create a fake or modified backup file and restore from it.
 
It is strange that over the year nobody has got around to creating a nice favourites list editor for the webif.
It shouldn't be too hard to do but I already have too many incomplete items on my to do list.
 
Once Favourites are set up, and when the Backup/Restore works (as it almost completely does now), you just leave them until some possible minor tweak at the next re-tune. So there's no incentive to create an editor front-end beyond what the settop UI offers, IMO.
 
Black Hole said:
I wasn't indicating they are editable there, I was suggesting you extract the files and modify them. This might be possible via WebIF >> Diagnostics >> File Editor.


What answer would that be? Some solution which escaped me, or just the answer "no"?
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Answer is no... not easily via WebIf.
I know there may be work-arounds but it takes knowledge and time.
I was hoping for an easy solution.
 
/df said:
Once Favourites are set up, and when the Backup/Restore works (as it almost completely does now), you just leave them until some possible minor tweak at the next re-tune. So there's no incentive to create an editor front-end beyond what the settop UI offers, IMO.
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I was trying to help someone via TeamViewer who isn't familiar with setting favourites whose well in their 80's.

A side-note on the Backup/Restore from them was their Humax would boot up twice.
I established that they did not have (at that time) any more scheduled entries. Seems to indicate to the logic that an update had wiped the schedules so a restore (of nothing) would occur. At least that's my understanding.
 
A typical case of being excessively economical in the initial explanation. How are we to avoid offering irrelevant "help" if we aren't told the full circumstances?
 
SunnysideUK said:
I was trying to help someone via TeamViewer who isn't familiar with setting favourites whose well in their 80's.
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In that case you could definitely have considered massaging a backup from their system with favourites set up on yours, though IIRC it's not entirely trivial.
A side-note on the Backup/Restore from them was their Humax would boot up twice.
I established that they did not have (at that time) any more scheduled entries. Seems to indicate to the logic that an update had wiped the schedules so a restore (of nothing) would occur. At least that's my understanding.
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Definitely happens and should be fixed when a new version of anything gets released. In this case it's the auto-schedule-restore package.
 
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