Hi, sorry for the late answer. This answer mail is an answer to all configure ideas send in this thread.
First of all: it would be cool to have an easier way to configure Freevo. But since my todo list is very long, I won't have time to do that. There are two starts for this somewere, but both didn't get finished. Mick wrote: > On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 07:52, Michael Osten wrote: >> > >> > I agree with this. We, my family, love our Freevo Box, but I am the >> > only one who can do stuff. I do the IMDB lookups, configure all the >> > directory locations / options. While this is not onerous to me, it >> > means that I can't easily set up a freevo unit for freinds/ relatives. >> > >> > My Freevo box is mainly used to play movies by the way. It has a tv >> > card in it, we just watch tv on the tv and have very limited >> > requirements for recording shows. >> > >> > In short, a builtin gui for the freevo.conf >> > >> > Cheers (You did ask :) >> > > I don;t quite think thats what he was asking.. This 'feature' does no > exist right now. I'd be happy to help get it started. But it is very > complex. Yes, it is. There are different ways for setting stuff: o local_conf.py: it should still be possible to use that file, it is easier for testing. o inside freevo: you have limited control with a remote (no complex texts) o use of the webserver > Firstly: how to get the options? There needs to be a way for freevo to > tell the user (or the plugin) exactly what options are available? > > Maybe a meta search on config()? Obviously, the documentation is no the > best ;-) So, this method would allow for the "config plugin" to include > config for activated plugins.. Actually, I'm quite chuffed with this > idea... There should be a new file for all config variables for this. It should contain the name, default value, doc and value type (list, string, int, list of list of string). About the plugins: we need a new way to detect: what plugins are there? What options do they have? > Lets look at how to assign the dir to store tv recording: how? > i) text box? > ii) file system select. I guess from inside freevo you can't do very complex stuff. Maybe settings this is part of the webserver. > But: the real issue is this: > How to get the config loaded? Right now freevo needs a restart on any > config change. Is this ever going to change? If not, in shutdown we > need a few more options: > i) soft restart (init.d/freevo restart) > ii) hard restart (reboot) Some variables can be changed without restart, others can't. I guess we should add an option 'restart freevo'. Dischi -- Well, I want to die quietly, peacefully, in my sleep like Grandpa did. Not screaming and crying like his passengers.
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