[RELEASE] PseudoTV Addon: Virtual EPG and TV Channel Surfing Script

Anybody know where I can download older versions? This new one does not work with openelec Eden and I heard older versions might.

(2012-03-19 00:46)tommymsw Wrote:  Anybody know where I can download older versions? This new one does not work with openelec Eden and I heard older versions might.

What doesn't work in openelec? I just recently setup things up and started using PTV on openelec. It seemed to work fine for me.

The channel sharing does not work. Just says "Unable to find any channels" and I have it set up EXACTLY the same way I do on my Windows systems. But I also can not get it to make it's own channels even without sharing. It almost randomly picks channels to generate (4,9,12) and then only chooses from like 4-5 shows. If I delete the channels it generates, it will generate different ones and use different shows. But still will ONLY use a few shows. I also tried making a channel with just one show and it skips it entirely. I don't have the slightest problem with PTV on my other systems and I have been using it for quite some time... I am familiar with the program and setting up channels. I have uninstalled it and deleted the user-data a few times and every time I try to generate channels, it only grabs a few shows.

Ok... so I got it to make the regular channels and even one for a particular show. But it still will not make a custom playlist channel, nor will it channel share.

I THINK I GOT IT!
I was unable to make a custom playlist channel when the playlist had a long name "Classic Comedies" on the openelec system. I shortened it to "Classic" and the channel added. I am guessing this may also be why I can't channel share with the other systems? Many of the shared channels are the longer names.

I've created several playlists to use as channels. Whenever PseudoTV tries to build the channels it is encountering a lot of filelocks (see below) and the only channel that is displayed is the first channel. I am running Eden RC2 with PseudoTV 2.0.0 (Latest Stable-Pre).

18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: IsExiting
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: buildFileList return
18:26:41 T:4316 ERROR: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: Unable to get information about channel 2
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: runActions 8 on channel 2
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileLock: unlockFile C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.pseudotv\cache/channel_2.m3u
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: runActions 16 on channel 2
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: getChannelName 0
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: getSmartPlaylistName
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: getSmartPlaylistName return cbs
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: runActions 64 on channel 2
18:26:41 T:4316 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-ChannelListThread: Closing thread
18:26:41 T:6872 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileLock: lockFile C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.pseudotv\settings​2.xml
18:26:41 T:6872 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileLock: unlockFile C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.pseudotv\settings​2.xml
18:26:42 T:6872 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileLock: lockFile C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.pseudotv\settings​2.xml
18:26:42 T:6872 DEBUG: script.pseudotv-FileLock: unlockFile C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\addon_data\script.pseudotv\settings​2.xml

That's normal behavior. It'll create the first channel and let you start watching and should load the rest of the channels in the background. If you're having trouble, turn off background loading in the addon settings and see if it'll create all of your channels.

This may be a moot question, but it just occurred to me that it would be awesome if this could be done...

Would it be possible to add Addons exclusively to PseudoTV? Like for example, add ESPN3 to PseudoTV so the live sports events (or ESPN/ESPN 2 if your ISP allows it) would popup as channels in PseudoTV?

Just a thought...

That would be awesome!

(2012-03-22 03:21)binarybomber Wrote:  This may be a moot question, but it just occurred to me that it would be awesome if this could be done...

Would it be possible to add Addons exclusively to PseudoTV? Like for example, add ESPN3 to PseudoTV so the live sports events (or ESPN/ESPN 2 if your ISP allows it) would popup as channels in PseudoTV?

Just a thought...

I don't think that can be done as PseudoTV needs to know the exact durations of the videos that it uses to make it's magic happen.

Mark

First of all, XBMC is wonderful. Second of all, this plugin is awesome!!