I have written a better EPG

Paul M · 2018-09-20T21:48:01+00:00

I'm sorry but I know this has been covered in various ways when discussing apps, but I don't think it's been specifically discussed about the web interface t...

Paul M

https://github.com/stepborc/TvheadendMobileUI "@stepborc
stepborc Add classes for recordline

Latest commit d3262d9 on 17 Jan 2017"

ok, so still probably abandoned like many others but only abandoned 22 months ago, most others much older.

Paul M

also "forked from polini/TvheadendMobileUI"

Paul M

I added a feature to my EPG to set a persistent auth code, and thus you don't need to enter a username/password when opening a stream in VLC.

I'd be delighted if someone forked my repo and did some work on the UI to stop it being so ugly ;-)

edit.. sorry, correct URL:

https://github.com/speculatrix/tvh_epg

I accidentally pasted this, which is one of my other projects, a web interface for get_iplayer. might be useful for people building a media server and you want to include BBC iplayer programs too. https://github.com/speculatrix/web_get_iplayer

Paul M

people who've subscribed to this thread might be interested to know that my EPG will now cast live channels to a chromecast device.

if persistent auth worked for playback, or I could find a function in the API to generate a playback ticket, then I could stream recordings.

Paul M

Some good progress on tvh_epg project.

At home I have my own DNS, so my TV Headend server has a resolvable name using my private DNS server. However, it appears that Chromecasts always use Google, so, I added a feature to make the program resolve the hostname to an IP address before telling Chromecast to play the stream.

I have found it works very well with my Chromecast 3rd gen. Also, I discovered that it works with my Chromecast Audio, allowing me to stream radio and the soundtrack off TV channels (both mpeg2 std def and h264 hi def channels). Oddly, ClassicFM only plays for two seconds and cuts out, I thought it might be due to a high bit rate but BBC Radio 3 plays just fine.

Talking of radio channels, people might like my command-line radio app (although it was written for the raspberry pi, it will run on anything: https://github.com/speculatrix/ya_pi_radio )

Paul M

I've had time to make some improvements. I've found that VLC will use a username/password in the URL when fed an m3u file, so now you can play live streams and recordings without having to authenticate in VLC.

I've set the file type .m3u to open in vlc, and it all works well. The earlier problem I had with ClassicFM cutting out has gone, I don't know what changed.

https://github.com/speculatrix/tvh_epg

I'd still like some help making the page prettier!

Paul M

I had a look the dave-p/TVHadmin interface and it's pretty good, the timeline view is close to what I want to achieve.

things I would add to it in configuration:
* persistent auth token setting
* separate URL for connection to service for internal use vs the URL that is given to streaming players

things I would add to it in timeline view:
* persistent auth token for streaming
* when you click, set the downloaded file to be "tvheadend.m3u" so you can open it from the browser in chosen app, e.g. vlc
* in timeline, hover the mouse for more information, the 2nd title and exact start and end times
* add chromecast support
* add a button to record the show
* filter channels by name or tag
things I would add in recordings view:
* when you click, set the downloaded file to be "tvheadend.m3u" so you can open it from the browser in chosen app, e.g. vlc
* set the URL to contain username/password for the streaming player
* filter by name or channel or something

davep

It seems a few of us have been using our "lockdown" time to write Tvheadend interfaces...

I've created a Javascript version of TVHadmin - https://github.com/dave-p/TVHadmin-JS It's pure Javascript with no external dependencies and loads from the Tvheadend server - no external web server needed. It uses the same authentication as the native web interface. The only requirement is a reasonably up-to-date browser on the client - IE definitely will not work.

Paul M

I saw that, Dave and I am impressed. Please feel free to steal any of my code if you think it will benefit your EPG.

DaveH

I just tried to install and run TVHadmin-JS but I'm obviously doing something wrong.

I went to https://github.com/dave-p/TVHadmin-JS and am trying to follow the instructions there.

My TVH has a /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/ directory (created by my distro) so that's where I created a tvhadmin directory. The instructions say to copy the repository there and I'm not sure what that means. So I did

$ git clone https://github.com/dave-p/TVHadmin-JS.git

I then went to http://localhost:9981/static/tvhadmin/TVHadmin.html

and got a server error message and the TVH log said

2020-11-26 17:37:45.301 webui: failed to open src/webui/static/tvhadmin/TVHadmin.html

2020-11-26 17:37:45.301 http: 127.0.0.1: HTTP/1.1 GET /static/tvhadmin/TVHadmin.html -- 500

Now I believe that's because the file is actually a directory lower and a request for

http://localhost:9981/static/tvhadmin/TVHadmin-JS/config.html

does work, so I don't know whether the instructions are wrong or just unclear and I did something wrong.

davep

The intention was that you would create a new directory 'tvhadmin' under /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/ and then manually move the files into there. However it is much simpler to just do a git clone into /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/ so I'll change the instructions. The URL should then be http://your.ip:9981/static/TVHadmin-JS/TVHadmin.html

Thanks for the bug report!

DaveH

So I'm enjoying having a look at this interface. Thanks!

One suggestion. On the timeline, the strap with the date and times should be part of the fixed header, not part of the vertically scrolling frame. And yes it should also be part of the horizontally scrolling frame, so I suppose that means nested frames are required.

PS dunno if 'frame' is the correct word here.

DaveH

Dave Pickles wrote:

> The intention was that you would create a new directory 'tvhadmin' under /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/ and then manually move the files into there. However it is much simpler to just do a git clone into /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/ so I'll change the instructions. The URL should then be http://your.ip:9981/static/TVHadmin-JS/TVHadmin.html

Apart from that I was I thought following the instructions, the reason I created the initial tvhadmin directory was so I could change ownership to my own user before I did anything else.

/usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/ belongs to my distro, and anything I do in there is 'naughty' and will get wiped out or complained about whenever I do an upgrade, so I wanted to be very sure I could easily recognize anything I had put in there.

Dunno if there's anywhere else in the user-controlled part of the tree where I could put stuff and have TVH find it?

David G

Umm, I just tried to update to the latest tvh_epg.py file but it produces the attached error for me?

EDIT: Sorted, after updating you need to go to the settings tab, check "Maximum Number Of Channels", then submit. I just left it set at 500.

Paul M

thanks David G, I will address that bug.

I have to set my channel max to 1700 for freesat, but I have a config error and a lot of duplicated channels.

Paul M

David P, maybe hack in an install.sh script which simply rsync's the files to the required directory and sets the appropriate ownership?

Paul M

I squashed a few bugs and added a few features, thanks to dgilbert2 on guthub for his help and patience.

Paul M

if I add some new settings then yes, it should advice that you need to go to the settings page to update things.

John White


Hello, I must be failing somewhere but followed instructions to install this (Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache2; cgi mod enabled) but cannot get this to work. Apache error log spits out (see below)
I have a .cgi and a .py test page which work - but are very simple

As an aside, I do have David P's js version working; so I CAN manage something...

<pre>

[Fri Sep 24 14:11:04.731995 2021] [core:notice] [pid 43595:tid 140394749135808] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/tempfile.py", line 401, inmkstempinner

fd =os.open(file, flags, 0o600) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/www/html/pythonerrors/tmpdc207m2w.html'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/tvh_epg.py", line 1615, in <module>
web_interface()
File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/tvh_epg.py", line 1550, in web_interface
html_page_header()
File "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/tvh_epg.py", line 1334, in html_page_header
if BG_COL_PAGE in MY_SETTINGS[SETTINGS_SECTION] and MY_SETTINGS.get(SETTINGS_SECTION, BG_COL_PAGE) != '':
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/configparser.py", line 959, ingetitem__
raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'user'

[Fri Sep 24 14:11:23.088810 2021] [http:error] [pid 43599:tid 140394536879872] [client 192.xxx.x.xx:58886] AH02429: Response header name '<!--' contains invalid characters, aborting request

Paul M

Hi John White

I have set my default web docs directory to /var/www/html and if the python goes wrong it expects to write to the directory /var/www/html/python_errors

if that is your web root, try making that directory and changing the group perms to writable, and the group ownership to www-data (or httpd, or whatever your daemon runs as).

if your web root is different, you'll have to tweak the python slightly to suit, and make the directory in the appropriate place and set the perms.

hope this helps,
Paul

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