utgg wrote: > For the adventurous, I've been having a play with adding live updating > text for the all the BBC radio channels - since RadioVis only provides > text information for Radio1 and 1xtra. > > I've done this with regular http polling (every 30 seconds) of a URL > that is used by the official iPlayer app for its 'onair' information. > Although this isn't published as an official interface, it looks pretty > 'open' to me and has been stable for two or more years, by the look of > it. I can't guarantee how long this will work for, but given the speed > at which the BBC are chopping and changing things, this is likely to be > as stable as anything. > > As I've needed to touch a few files in the plugin, I'm just posting a > patch file at the moment (only applies to the BBCiPlayer-v1.3.1alpha3 > plugin). Sorry, this is for linux command line only for now (or cygwin > or similar in windows). Copy the file to the BBCiPlayer plugin > directory, cd to that directory and type: > > Code: -------------------- > > > patch -p1 < BBCiPlayer-v1.3.1alpha3-Onair-v0.1.patch > -------------------- > > > > After restarting LMS check the settings - there is an extra one called > 'Show OnAir Text' which needs checking, and the 'Show Live Text' needs > un-checking. 'Show Slide Show' will still work for displaying > different artwork (on those channels that already had RadioVis). > > PS. I've also amended the menu.opml, adding a couple of missing > stations and including some icon links for those that didn't have one. > > PPS. "patch -bp1 < BBCiPlayer-v1.3.1alpha3-Onair-v0.1.patch" will also > create a backup of the changed files. If you want to go back though, > it's probably easiest just to un-install and reinstall the plugin. > > Edit: I've also added a zip of just the files that have changed, if > the patch file is problematic for your system. Extract over the top of > the existing BBCiPlayer plugin directory, replacing existing files. > Make sure this includes the basic.html file which is buried in a deep > path. > > I need to say that as I've now modified Triode's original code (which > is allowable as it is GPLv2), he's in no way responsible for any > problems I may have now introduced...
Works for me, using WinScp and the zipped files- reinstalled my favourites. Many thanks atb Ronnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53229 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
