The epg is a database so it is simple and quick to do fairly complex searches of the database.I was looking for something simple, surprised it’s not built in to ‘opt’ menu
humax /mnt/hd2/My Video # find -iname *house*.ts
./[Bin]/Richard Osman's Festive House___/Richard Osman's Festive House____20250103_1900.ts
./[Bin]/ [FlatView]/Richard Osman's Festive House____20250103_1900.ts
./ [FlatView]/Richard Osman's House of Games_20250106_1759.ts
./Richard Osman's House of Games/Richard Osman's House of Games_20250106_1759.ts
humax /mnt/hd2/My Video # grep -ri manford .*/*/*.hmt
../My Video/Have I Got Sport for You_20250105_2331.hmt:i7Jason Manford hosts a festive round-up of the year's top sports stories, with Jon Richardson, Maisie Adam, Eddie Hearn, Kadeena Cox, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Stuart Broad. Also in HD.
./ [FlatView]/Have I Got Sport for You_20250105_2331.hmt:i7Jason Manford hosts a festive round-up of the year's top sports stories, with Jon Richardson, Maisie Adam, Eddie Hearn, Kadeena Cox, Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Stuart Broad. Also in HD.
I should have thought ofInstall flatview, open the [FlatView] folder in WebIF >> Browse Media Files, then use the browser's "find in page" function.
Flexview
(since I wrote it) !or you can add/move/delete columns to the current view using the Columns button and then filter on themMaybe I'm intuiting incorrectly, but it seemed to me that @Sargan might be wanting to search programme metadata rather than just the filenames. It doesn't seem an unreasonable function to offer in the Browse Files page.
It is Flexview not Flatview that provides the filtering/sorting abilitySo that's a great application of FlatView which obviously solves this problem, though I've never installed it!
I thought that looked unfamiliar – I have no knowledge of flexview.Yes I did mistake the package name in my reply
I thought I had editted it - the senility is getting worse!I thought that looked unfamiliar – I have no knowledge of flexview.
Please edit your post.
Nope. The HDR-FOX only offers search within the EPG. If you want to expand the UI functionality, WebIF is the only way to go. From FAQs:What I'm looking for is something 'on screen' via Humax remote.
I would like some Custom Firmware modifications that alter the way the HDR-FOX displays things on the TV
Not possible, no can do. The HDR-FOX (and HD-FOX) hardware (ie the electronics) is a "black box" - ie a mystery to us, hidden inside some very large scale integrated circuits with documentation Humax keep to themselves. We can guess the general architecture of what's inside, but not the detail. To compound the problem, the Humax software (which we can inspect) that operates the mystery hardware is also an undocumented "blob" of binary code and (essentially) also a mystery.
The consequence is that we have no access to the video and audio streams sent out on the HDMI, SCART, and RCA socket, or the graphics overlays, and cannot affect them except in very limited indirect ways (one rare example being substituting our own set of digit graphics for the screensaver clock). So, do not ask for anything that needs to present output on-screen (eg a better photo album or MP3 player, or the ability to play a currently incompatible media file type).
What has been achieved with Custom Firmware is to provide a way in to the HDR-FOX's open source operating system so that our own applications can be run alongside the Humax application. These applications have access to everything the operating system has access to - ie networking, file system, and process status. With a very few rare exceptions, everything the CF does is by manipulating the files and file system, with command and control via a web browser or command line interface over the network.
If you feel you really must have some tweak to the hardware output, please feel free to analyse how the hardware actually works and let us know (in detail) which parts of the Humax code need changing (and to what).
A Major unstated requirement!What I'm looking for is something 'on screen' via Humax remote. I don't use the web interface, other than for maintenance tasks, as the PC is used in different room to TV.
For example the addition of the Trash bin ... keeps the functionality accessible in the menu and via remote.
Interesting idea, I wonder whether anyone actually still usesI have a suggestion, but it would take somebody willing to write it, and I'm not sure the audience will be more than one.
It should be possible to have a "magic" folder in which the user created a new folder, the name of which would be the desired search term. Perhaps multiple folder names could be further search terms (AND). A daemon then picks up that a folder has been inserted in the magic folder, performs the media search, and creates links to hits (like flatview). I expect the user would have to refresh the view of the folder to see the results, but then the links would be playable.
@Sargan: this is in no way an exception to the rule. It's just using the existing Humax UI in a creative way (much like network-shares-automount, nice-splice, undelete).
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