Maraschino (formerly HTPC Frontend) - a summary web interface for your XBMC HTPC

(2012-06-15 20:23)steve1977 Wrote:  Any news on auto-update or headphones widget? Thanks a lot in advance!!!

i have been working hard on the updater, then all of a sudden github depreciated their v2 api. so i have moved to v3 api and it seems to work great. I sent a pull request to mrkipling and he hopes to review it this weekend. *fingers crossed*

the headphones module was put on hold while i was working on the updater. So if all goes well with that i will start working on the headphones module again next week. All the functionality is there, just a lot of loose ends in the ui part.

Quote:it seems to throw some thread api error from Sickbeard and I have to regenerate the Sickbeard API key before the Sickbeard module will work again and show the tv shows

what error is it throwing? history works fine for me.

(2012-06-16 02:32)N3MIS15 Wrote:  i have been working hard on the updater, then all of a sudden github depreciated their v2 api. so i have moved to v3 api and it seems to work great. I sent a pull request to mrkipling and he hopes to review it this weekend. *fingers crossed*

the headphones module was put on hold while i was working on the updater. So if all goes well with that i will start working on the headphones module again next week. All the functionality is there, just a lot of loose ends in the ui part.

Thanks, this is fantastic news!!! Really great! Will the updater also work for those using Apache or only for CherryPy?

And on separate note, one feature request: would it be possible to have "update library" in the media library diretcly on the first layer rather after clicking movies. Issue is that it takes quite a bit to open "movies" as I have 2000+ movies and I don't want to go into this folder every time that I want to update my library. Same for "clean library". Thanks for considering.

And one last thing - possible to have an option not to show "music" and "files" as part of media library?

(2012-06-16 07:50)steve1977 Wrote:  

(2012-06-16 02:32)N3MIS15 Wrote:  i have been working hard on the updater, then all of a sudden github depreciated their v2 api. so i have moved to v3 api and it seems to work great. I sent a pull request to mrkipling and he hopes to review it this weekend. *fingers crossed*

the headphones module was put on hold while i was working on the updater. So if all goes well with that i will start working on the headphones module again next week. All the functionality is there, just a lot of loose ends in the ui part.

Thanks, this is fantastic news!!! Really great! Will the updater also work for those using Apache or only for CherryPy?

And on separate note, one feature request: would it be possible to have "update library" in the media library diretcly on the first layer rather after clicking movies. Issue is that it takes quite a bit to open "movies" as I have 2000+ movies and I don't want to go into this folder every time that I want to update my library. Same for "clean library". Thanks for considering.

And one last thing - possible to have an option not to show "music" and "files" as part of media library?

These are all valid requests but I think this thread is not the appropriate place for them anymore. Response and discussion should be moved to http://forums.maraschinoproject.com/ or https://maraschino.lighthouseapp.com/ .

Hi guys.

First of all I have to thank all people who put their knowledge and time into development of Maraschino.

For me honestly it is one of best things I have seen since my discovery of XBMC it self.

First time i used it was on opnelec - it is a bit buggy on that system...

MY current build is XBMCbuntu and I access MAraschino with Chrome from Win 7.

I have everything sorted out and it is all working 10+.

One thing though - I tried searching on forum, this thread and google.

I see that Couchpotato is talked abut in this thread, I have seen some screenshot images of module.

I have no Couchpotato module in my Maraschino, so my question is - has this been dropped from development,
or do I need to add it manually, or something else?

Thank you.

(2012-06-16 11:51)Burke Wrote:  Hi guys.

First of all I have to thank all people who put their knowledge and time into development of Maraschino.

For me honestly it is one of best things I have seen since my discovery of XBMC it self.

First time i used it was on opnelec - it is a bit buggy on that system...

MY current build is XBMCbuntu and I access MAraschino with Chrome from Win 7.

I have everything sorted out and it is all working 10+.

One thing though - I tried searching on forum, this thread and google.

I see that Couchpotato is talked abut in this thread, I have seen some screenshot images of module.

I have no Couchpotato module in my Maraschino, so my question is - has this been dropped from development,
or do I need to add it manually, or something else?

Thank you.

(2012-05-26 03:30)gugahoi Wrote:  

(2012-05-25 18:00)schumi2004 Wrote:  Is someone already working on a CouchPotato Server V2 module?

I started when it started being coded but there was no documentation about it's API so I thought I'd wait a little longer. It should have a better documentation by now but I dont have the time to do it at the moment. You can check it out on my repository's branch called couchpotato and build on it if you wish otherwise anyone is welcome to give it a try and code as they please.

Hello everyone!

I've just merged in the auto-updater function. This is a huge step forward - now you will no longer have to update Maraschino manually, it will prompt you to update itself from within the interface when it detects that a newer version is available. Many thanks to N3MIS15 and Mikie-Ghost for taking the time to write this!

As part of this update, the "core" of Maraschino has been changed to make it more structured. This is definitely a good thing, and long overdue. Unfortunately it also means that existing users are going to have to change some things around.

As part of streamlining the core of Maraschino, Apache is no longer supported. It just wasn't feasible to support both Apache and CherryPy long-term, plus people have been complaining that setting up Maraschino can be quite confusing, so we decided to focus on supporting one installation method (using CherryPy's WSGI server that is bundled with Maraschino).

So, if you have been using Apache up until now: you need to disable Maraschino in Apache, and follow the new installation instructions from step 3 (you can skip steps 1 and 2 as you have already cloned the repository). Your settings won't be affected - your database is still intact, and will be detected by Maraschino once it is being served using the new method.

If you have been using CherryPy: you need to update your "/etc/init.d/maraschino" script using the new version in the git repo. Basically, follow steps 3, 4 and 5 in the new installation instructions. When you're done, restart Maraschino ("/etc/init.d/maraschino restart")

If you have been using basic HTTP authentication, your username/password settings will be lost when you first load the new-improved Maraschino. This is because there is no longer a confusing settings.py file - you configure the username and password from within Maraschino itself. Go to misc settings in the top-right dropdown, enter a username and password, and click save. Much simpler!

Apologies that this update requires changing your installation, but I hope you'll agree that what it brings to the table (a much simpler installation process for new users, and auto-updating) is worth the minor inconvenience.

That's a pity and huge loss. Making things quite a bit more complex for the folks like me working with reverse proxies. Now need to learn how to forward ports and others...

Anyhow, it is how it is and I still love Maraschino functionality. Any description how to install cherrypy on windows? Understand that above describes it only for linux users?

All the other major HTPC apps (sickbeard, couch potato) use cherrypy so it should work exactly the same as them when it comes to reverse proxies. Cherrypy should be included without the source files so no need to install it separately.

Has anyone been having trouble getting thumbnails to display on recently added movies and episodes. I am running the lastest xbmc compiled from git on ubuntu 11.10 with mysql database and about two or three weeks ago jmarshall changed some stuff todo with the way thumb nails are handle or cached in mysql and I haven't been able to get any previews in maraschino since. I am not sure of the exact commit unfortunately. It was fine until I did a system wipe which removed my xbmc thumbnails folder and with the new commit the way I understand it works now there are direct links to the images in mysql and cached thumbnails in the textures database but no copies of the thumbnail in the thumbnails folder since that was kinda redundant. However anything that used those thumbs i.e. maraschino and also the video wallpaper screensaver don't have images to use. This will appear to be working properly until you delete the thumbnail folder because all your old created thumbnails are still in there. I guess what I am asking is, is there anyway to pull those thumbs from where they are cached and not from the thumbnail folder?

See this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=133217 for more info.

@mrkipling

Looks great but wondering how it will act in OpenELEC.

Will give it a try later today.