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- Slipx - 2010-11-21 14:22
Thanks for this. Works great with Windows 7 64bit and XBMC beta 4. Much better that the native Imon support for xbmc.
- andyking30 - 2010-12-18 19:15
Congratulations on doing this. I set it up this morning and it is a huge stepforward. Is it possible to show the current menu selectioin on the display and not just the currently played video/music? For example, as i scroll from video to tv shows to movies can this be displayed. Essnetially you could navigate through xbmc without having the tv screen turned on which would be very useful for music and radio.
I have noticed a bug though.
If you navigate to the latest episodes box on the confluence skin (the one that shows the latest 4 episodes u've added to teh library) by going to tvshows and pushing left twice, the display then fails to change. For example, if i select "burn notice s04e18 Last stand" from the list the title does not display and it sticks to whatever was shown before. A restart of xbmc on imon is then required.
However, if i select a movie from the latest four movies box then it does indeed work fine.
I am running XBMC dharma rc2 on windows 7 x64 and using eventghost.
- Montellese - 2010-12-18 20:03
andyking30 Wrote:Congratulations on doing this. I set it up this morning and it is a huge stepforward. Is it possible to show the current menu selectioin on the display and not just the currently played video/music? For example, as i scroll from video to tv shows to movies can this be displayed. Essnetially you could navigate through xbmc without having the tv screen turned on which would be very useful for music and radio.This is possible by activating the "Control mode" option in the XBMC options.
andyking30 Wrote:I have noticed a bug though.
If you navigate to the latest episodes box on the confluence skin (the one that shows the latest 4 episodes u've added to teh library) by going to tvshows and pushing left twice, the display then fails to change. For example, if i select "burn notice s04e18 Last stand" from the list the title does not display and it sticks to whatever was shown before. A restart of xbmc on imon is then required.
I'll have a look at it. Maybe it has something to do with the RecentlyAdded script not starting the episode properly (e.g. directly starting the file and not the library item) which leads to XBMC not providing any information about the currently playing file.
- sockenelk - 2010-12-20 01:57
would really like to try this out - but I've got a starter problem: when installing the imon-software I want to go to Options and set to plugin-mode (as in your readme) - but there is no option to set that anywhere in the whole imon manager...
Using win xp, Zalman hd160 with LCD display, latest imon driver, dharma release version
anyone has a advice?
cheers
- migr - 2010-12-24 06:34
took me a while to get it all up and running, but very nice. it works perfectly on my Zalman HD503 running win7 32 bit. i was really anoyed at how un configurable the screen was with the supplied software, so i thank you very much for your app and look foward to future updates.
- migr - 2010-12-24 06:39
sockenelk Wrote:would really like to try this out - but I've got a starter problem: when installing the imon-software I want to go to Options and set to plugin-mode (as in your readme) - but there is no option to set that anywhere in the whole imon manager...
Using win xp, Zalman hd160 with LCD display, latest imon driver, dharma release version
anyone has a advice?
cheers
are u saying you dont have the "plugin-Mode" option?
If so, you need to get the latest Imon software and patch it too as that option wasnt there in older versions. Im currently running iMON_7_90_0702_01 and then i patched it with iMON_Patch_7_91_0929_Beta.
Follow the links on the 1st page of this thread to both of those and you should be right.
- andyking30 - 2010-12-27 01:31
Montellese Wrote:This is possible by activating the "Control mode" option in the XBMC options.
I'll have a look at it. Maybe it has something to do with the RecentlyAdded script not starting the episode properly (e.g. directly starting the file and not the library item) which leads to XBMC not providing any information about the currently playing file.
HI Montellese
Enabling the control mode stopped the display from crashing after selecting a tv episode from the "latest episodes" window. However, it now only displays the episode name and not the series name with it. I'm guessing this is because how xbmc reports it. I'll double check this and get back to you.
One question: is there any way to format the episode format string option to display a leading 0 for series and episode under 10 e.g. S01E01 instead of S1E1?
- Montellese - 2010-12-27 01:34
andyking30 Wrote:Enabling the control mode stopped the display from crashing after selecting a tv episode from the "latest episodes" window. However, it now only displays the episode name and not the series name with it. I'm guessing this is because how xbmc reports it. I'll double check this and get back to you.Yeah it simply displays what XBMC shows you on the screen as a label.
andyking30 Wrote:One question: is there any way to format the episode format string option to display a leading 0 for series and episode under 10 e.g. S01E01 instead of S1E1?
Not yet but I plan to add this feature once I get some spare time to work on this again (because it annoys me as well).
great tool - robertvg - 2010-12-28 21:42
One thing that I find a little annoying is that the text (song or movietitle) already restarts when the last letter comes on screen at the right side of the display. For titles that are just longer then what fits onscreen this gives the effect of constantly from left to right and back moving text.
Would it be possible to let the text continue to scroll all the way to the left untill the last character has disappeared and that it would start to appear at the left side of the display with the first character of the text ?
- Montellese - 2010-12-28 21:50
robertvg Wrote:One thing that I find a little annoying is that the text (song or movietitle) already restarts when the last letter comes on screen at the right side of the display. For titles that are just longer then what fits onscreen this gives the effect of constantly from left to right and back moving text.
Would it be possible to let the text continue to scroll all the way to the left untill the last character has disappeared and that it would start to appear at the left side of the display with the first character of the text ?
The main problem is that there is no way to know whether a text will scroll on the screen or not. I already tried things like counting the number of characters displayed but it does not work because every character uses a different amount of pixels of the display and knowing the amount of pixels for every possible UTF-8 character is not an option.
What I could do is increase the time between the moment the last letter reaches the end and the moment it starts scrolling again. Maybe I'll make it configurable so everyone can define what he/she prefers.