[portal-xtra1] Custom TV Portal Alternative

ChrisDaniels said:
Hi Ian,

Noticed an issue with iPlayer loaded via Red/2 at the weekend.
If you go to search, and press ok on a letter, it selects it twice. Is there a keypress conflict maybe?
Also, the video did not seem to want to play either.

Loading via Humax portal works fine.
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Curious, probably be this Saturday before I can put anytime into things.

The stuff is all links, so I don't think my stuff should affect it,but... who knows what the hbbTV application api is really doing behind the scenes, as the spec is one thing, then hummy's implementation is/may be another...

Maybe I should detach the keyboard event before loading the next URL?
 
af123 said:
I wouldn't try and merge the two or kill custom-portal completely. Here's what I would do:
  • In the portal-xtra1 CONTROL file, note that it conflicts with custom-portal:
    • Just add Conflicts: custom-portal
  • Copy the bootstrap code from the custom-portal package into the portal-xtra1 package (basically the contents of the boot/ directory in there;
  • Tweak the portal startup page in boot/2/config-ocontroller-si-rootfs.txt - the mom.hbbtv.portal entry as Chris has already noted - so that is loads the page you want at startup;
  • Move your code up a level so that it sits directly within /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal if that makes sense for your code structure;
  • Provide an empty plugins/ directory in the same location as custom-portal did;
  • Get the existing plugin authors (oh, that's just me : ) to update their package so that it references the new jquery library that you bundle, or the one in /mod/var/mongoose/html/js, rather than the one that came with custom-portal, or provide the old jquery 1.4.2 library alongside yours.
That way, the two portals can continue to exist but only one can be installed at a time. When you first do this, people will need to remove custom-portal in order to upgrade portal-xtra1 because of the conflict statement and if they ever want to switch back they need to remove the latter first.
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I've got all this done,
as well as
Conflicts: custom-portal

I have
Replaces: custom-portal
Supplies: custom-portal,jquery(1.7.xxx) -can't remember exact number off my head

I am testing it over the next few days... in various scenarios with combinations of other related plugins installed.
 
hmm just looked at the config-ocontroller-si-rootfs.txt file.
One of the first lines states this:
# The BBC iplayer code implements navigation so it should be disabled in Galio.
browser.kbnav.enabled: 0

Maybe you should point it to the file in usr\browser\iplayer\portal_relay.html so it starts up correctly? Similar to how we launch SkyPlayer.
I dont know if this is the correct file to point to but it is listed in usr\browser\portal\portal.html (which is a humax test file).
 
ChrisDaniels said:
hmm just looked at the config-ocontroller-si-rootfs.txt file.
One of the first lines states this:
# The BBC iplayer code implements navigation so it should be disabled in Galio.
browser.kbnav.enabled: 0

Maybe you should point it to the file in usr\browser\iplayer\portal_relay.html so it starts up correctly? Similar to how we launch SkyPlayer.
I dont know if this is the correct file to point to but it is listed in usr\browser\portal\portal.html (which is a humax test file).
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Ah! It all makes - some sort of sense - I'll look at it this weekend.
 
Thanks Ian, I'll have a play with it tonight.

Your package is missing the convenience link var/mongoose/portal -> var/mongoose/html/portal which breaks things like your listplugins.jim script.

You could slim it down a tad by symlinking jquery.js to jquery-1.7.1.min.js instead of providing the same file twice.
 
af123 said:
Thanks Ian, I'll have a play with it tonight.

Your package is missing the convenience link var/mongoose/portal -> var/mongoose/html/portal which breaks things like your listplugins.jim script.

You could slim it down a tad by symlinking jquery.js to jquery-1.7.1.min.js instead of providing the same file twice.
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OK
*Changed my listplugin.jim script so that it doesn't use the linked path.
*Sym linked the jquery.js and jquery.min.js (same files)
*Added some rm and rmdir commands to the postinst script to remove the links and unused directorys.
Code: 
echo "Tidying up dead symbolic links and old folders"
echo "from previous installs."
rm -f /mod/var/mongoose/portal
rmdir /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal/Images/Common
rmdir /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal/Images
rm -f /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal/Scripts
rmdir /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal/include
rmdir /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal/plugin/xtra1/app
rmdir /mod/var/mongoose/html/portal/plugin/xtra1
echo "Done."
*Are the 'convienience links' needed/used by anything?

http://tv.tausoft.co.uk/portal-xtra1_1.12.059.861_mipsel.opk

More testing & comments please...
 
Tried to play youtube video in xtra portal via red button/then 6 for YT. Would not play, cursor going round forever. Tried in the humax portal same video from most popular section it played.
 
mihaid said:
Tried to play youtube video in xtra portal via red button/then 6 for YT. Would not play, cursor going round forever. Tried in the humax portal same video from most popular section it played.
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Does this happen to anyone else?
I think that the Youtube app on the xtra portal has potential; it finds better results on searches, but there's no point if nothing plays?
 
mihaid said:
Does this happen to anyone else?
I think that the Youtube app on the xtra portal has potential; it finds better results on searches, but there's no point if nothing plays?
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I was under the impression that both methods of accessing the YouTube app linked to the same place.
 
ChrisDaniels said:
Are you sure? its pointing to exactly the same application
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I have done a search on the new app which brought in some videos I was not expecting , based on the previous app.
If it's pointing to the same app then why videos in the xtra do not play? Just to clarify: press portal on remote/humax portal/youtube . Here videos play. If instead of Humax portal I choose xtra portal/red button on remote/ Youtube at number 6. Here videos do not play.
 
Because there is a problem with the code in the xtra portal at the moment which is discussed above. Think its permission issues..
 
Fixed the issues with the Red button apps including iPlayer & YouTube Ian
We need to switch the TV off before running.

Code: 
function redKeys(kk)
{ if (kk==VK_1) goURL("https://www.humaxtvportal.com/");
  //if (kk==VK_2) goURL("http://www.humaxtvportal.com/Apps/iplayer/launcher.html");
  if (kk==VK_2) 
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  //goURL("file:/usr/browser/iplayer/portal_relay.html");
  goURL("http://www.humaxtvportal.com/Apps/iplayer/launcher.html");
  }
  if (kk==VK_3)
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  goURL("http://www.humaxtvportal.com:8094/PortalService/vTuner/index.htm?feed=favourite&level=top&siteLang=eng");
  }
  if (kk==VK_4)
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  goURL("http://test.humaxtvportal.com/WikiTv");
  }
  if (kk==VK_5)
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  goURL("http://test.humaxtvportal.com/Flickr/");
  }
  if (kk==VK_6)
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  goURL("http://test.humaxtvportal.com/YouTube/");
  }
  if (kk==VK_7)
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  goURL("https://www.humaxtvportal.com/Picasa/");
  }
  if (kk==VK_8)
  {
  document.getElementById('video').setTVOff();
  goURL("http://data.teletext.co.uk/iptv/index.html");
  }
}

Also, changed the init video function to switch the TV back on

Code: 
function initVideo() {
  try {
    document.getElementById('video').setTVOn();
    document.getElementById('video').bindToCurrentChannel();
  } catch (e) {
    // ignore
  }
  try {
    document.getElementById('video').setTVOn();
    document.getElementById('video').setFullScreen(false);
  } catch (e) {
    // ignore
  }
}
function initPIP() {
  try {
    document.getElementById('video').setTVOn();
    document.getElementById('video').bindToCurrentChannel();
  } catch (e) {
    // ignore
  }
}
 
mihaid said:
I have done a search on the new app which brought in some videos I was not expecting , based on the previous app.
If it's pointing to the same app then why videos in the xtra do not play? Just to clarify: press portal on remote/humax portal/youtube . Here videos play. If instead of Humax portal I choose xtra portal/red button on remote/ Youtube at number 6. Here videos do not play.
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I suspect it may be the way I launch subsequent web pages using the browser URL.
I have yet to try launching the web addresses using the Application manager -- which the box itself does when starting the portal, this may do something clever with the keyboard events.
 
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