[WebIF] Feature Requests

[prpr]

Tried it with a decrypt job and it did cancel the task, but a few seconds later it was Running again

Yes, I agonised over that, but in tests it went in to FAILED state and gave the opportunity to Hold it. It seemed to be a couple of minutes, which surprised me as I thought it would be at most a minute.

There is a short window in which you can move the entry into Hold but easy to miss making it look as if it hasn't been killed

The page refreshes and it ought to be correct if the task dies promptly. I bodged with a delay though.

It would probably be better if killing the task automatically moved it into Hold or a new Killed status, it could then be manually resubmitted when user wants to try again.

I thought about that too, but haven't had time to implement it properly. There's a potential race condition to deal with between killer and killee.
Maybe HOLDing the RUNNING task could also invoke the Kill and Hold. At the moment it just gets ignored, and it's a less obvious way of killing things.

I had assumed (mistake) that the monitoring would occur is deq before/after invoking the hook routines to avoid the need for changes in the queue.hook routines themselves

The only place the PID(s) can be obtained is in a wrapper around exec and that happens in the queue.hook

I can make the changes in detectads and qtube but I have never added packages to the beta repository before - how do I?

You can't, so you'll have to send me the package(s) to upload.

 

[Black Hole]

I find it a little tedious/irritating that tapping* the eject button (WebIF top left corner) first brings up the WebIF page short-cuts, and then only the eject menu if the short-cuts are showing when tapped. (This behaviour does not manifest on the WebIF home page, only sub-pages.)

(* I say "tapped" because more often than not I'm using a touch screen rather than a mouse.)

I guess the screen "capture" area for the short-cuts includes the whole top banner (except disk utilisation) and perhaps did before the eject button was implemented, but now needs reducing a bit.

 

[MymsMan]

View attachment 6971

And without the flag

 

[MymsMan]

There is a strange formatting bug with the Webif EPG display

This is shown for next Thursday at 7pm using a 6hr wide epg
But If I display a 6pm on the same day it doesn't overflow the row on 205 POP

Hardly a serious issue but curious - Initially i thought it was accumulated rounding error but 206 POP MAX also has a lot of very short programmes;
For some reason at 7pm the entry for "Power Rangers: Dino Fury" has not been truncated/omitted - possibly due to its unusual 19:01 end time
"Miraculous: Tales Of..." that has an 18:03 end time does format correctly on the 6pm view.

 

[prpr]

Yes, that xepg page has "issues".

 

[Last.To.Know]

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or has been asked before...

Feature Request 1 - Go To

A macro type feature to be added to the WebIF remote that let's you go to a specific point in a recording and play from there.

E.G. Go to the 99 minute mark of a 121 minute recording.

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Feature Request 2 - Disable TV Portal button

Disable TV Portal button on the physical remote.

It's mildly annoying to accidentally hit the TV Portal button thus interrupting recording viewing.

 

[MymsMan]

Both already available:

Go To:

Use Webif->Browse->Opt+->Bookmarks add Bookmarks at 99 minutes or wherever needed

Disable portal:

Webif->Diagnostics->File editor edit /mod/boot/ir3.map
I have remapped Portal to Bookmark to make skipping to bookmarks easier

4b:6b:PORTAL  -> Bookmark

if you just want to disable use 4b::PORTAL -> NoOp Stuff after 2nd colon is comments

 

[Last.To.Know]

Just to be clear, I should replace

4b:4b:PORTAL

with

4b:6b:PORTAL  -> Bookmark

?

And this will disable the TV Portal button on the physical remote?

 

[MymsMan]

Just to be clear, I should replace

4b:4b:PORTAL

with

4b:6b:PORTAL  -> Bookmark

?

And this will disable the TV Portal button on the physical remote?

It will change it to a 'skip to Boookmark' button. (easier to find than the real Bookmark button which hides amongst the small buttons at bootom of the remote)
4b::PORTAL -> NoOp would change it to a do nothing button

See https://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/WebIf_Remote_Controller for more details

 

[Last.To.Know]

Thank you.

I've changed it to skip to bookmark and will assess if that's better than disabling it.

On the Go To function, I was envisioning just punching in a number (in a situation where I haven't set a bookmark).

I am not in the habit of setting bookmarks and rarely watch a recording more than once.

Thanks for the help.

 

[MymsMan]

On the Go To function, I was envisioning just punching in a number (in a situation where I haven't set a bookmark).

An alternative to setting Bookmarks would be to change the Resume point for the recording.
This can be done on the command line with the hmt +setresume option but AFAIK this isn't available via the webif.
It could be done via a new field in the Opt+->Rename menu (rename does a lot more than just renaming) or as new Opt+ option

BTW Are you aware that when watching a recording you can press Play again to see the recording timeline and rapidly skip forward/backwards through the recording?

 

[prpr]

It could be done via a new field in the Opt+->Rename menu (rename does a lot more than just renaming) or as new Opt+ option

I like the idea...

 

[Black Hole]

A macro type feature to be added to the WebIF remote that let's you go to a specific point in a recording and play from there.

I don't see how that could be done as a macro, in as much as it is not possible to command the HDR-FOX to skip to a numerical point anyway (macros just automate existing functions), but...

An alternative to setting Bookmarks would be to change the Resume point for the recording.

That's a clever idea! The user would have to set the resume point on the non-playing recording, and then play it (resume option, rather than "play from start").

It's mildly annoying to accidentally hit the TV Portal button thus interrupting recording viewing.

Any button can be annoying if pressed accidentally, but as the Portal button no longer serves any useful function...

 

[bottletop]

..
A macro type feature to be added to the WebIF remote that let's you go to a specific point in a recording and play from there.

E.G. Go to the 99 minute mark of a 121 minute recording.
...

..
I am not in the habit of setting bookmarks and rarely watch a recording more than once.
..

The HDR has

Skip to next bookmark​

Cue/Review from x2 to x32​

FFwd/Rew skip 5 minute increments​

left/right (either side of OK) - skip 1 minute (hold for fast skip)​

I use the last one the most, especially as finger is near those buttons (after selecting recording for playback). Takes less than 10 secs to skip to most points of a recording.
Eg took less than 30 seconds to find 60, 120 and 180 minute points for HD recording from yesterday.
(The skip increment increases with the media duration, so it may use 2 minute increments for 5 hour recordings.)

(Also, except the first one, they all behave in a similar fashion for TV guide navigation.)
Edit: (Menu) left/right changed to left/right (either side of OK).

 

[Black Hole]

FFwd/Rew skip 5 minute increments

...depending on your settings in Preferences

(Menu) left/right skip 1 minute (hold for fast skip)

What does Menu have to do with it? Press Play to bring up the time index bar, or just press left or right cursor.

 

[Last.To.Know]

BTW Are you aware that when watching a recording you can press Play again to see the recording timeline and rapidly skip forward/backwards through the recording?

I am.

I was seeking an alternative to repeatedly pressing the skip forward button.

 

[Black Hole]

I was seeking an alternative to repeatedly pressing the skip forward button.

There is an alternative: the right and left cursor buttons scroll the play point along the time line (as stated above).

 

[Last.To.Know]

Thank you, BH.

I had not read bottletop's post properly.

I was not previously aware of the left/right (either side of OK) - skip function.

I know - Last To Know!

I see it skips in 1 minute and 10 minute jumps.

Which is close enough to what I was asking for.

Thanks to bottletop for helping.

 

[Black Hole]

I see it skips in 1 minute and 10 minute jumps.

? Not sure about that. It scrolls rightwards while right cursor is held, etc. If it's jumping, then your button might be intermittent.

 

[Last.To.Know]

Maybe.

Maybe it's scrolling in 10 minute increments.