Simple RSS Jukebox

[jurijz]

Ok, I can change a setup - can remove my second HDD from this PBO and attach it to my second PBO (I have two PBOs at my home )
I hope it wil help me to avoid any issues in the future
Could you please remind me how i could check where resides my USB HDD ? (if I remember right something like cd /tmp/usbmounts and then ls)
Then I'll be sure that my external HDD recognised by PBO with right way

[snappy46]

but my second HDD was turned off everytime while creating jukebox.xml files on my first HDD, I'm sure for that
Probably I didn't get your explanation right
So, what I have to do to avoid any similar problems in the future ? Should I unplug the second HDD at all and don't use it anymore with this PBO ?
Sorry, but I'm a little bit confused because I didn't get what I did wrong, definitely

The PBO uses automount to connect your USB devices and mount them. Therefore if you have your second HDD off then reboot your HDD with your movies will be mounted as sdb1 because it is the only one. You obviously have an internal drive which is mounted as sda1; so next device in line will be sdb1 (HDD with movie). Now if you turn on your second HDD and reboot. It could for example detect your HDD internal (Always first) and mounts it again as sda1; now it detect your second HDD and mount it as sdb1; next it detect your HDD with movies and mount it as sdc1. Since your jukebox.xml points to sdb1 for your movies it points on your second HDD without the movies and jukebox is empty.

The easiest thing to do would be to make sure that the second HDD is off when you reboot; this will make sure that the HDD with the movies get mounted as sdb1. After the boot up process you could turn on your second HDD and it will be mounted as sdc1 which is ok. I am not sure how the PBO determine which HDD gets mounted first but doing what I just mentioned should resolve your issue if that is what it is at all.

Hope this helps.

[snappy46]

Could you please remind me how i could check where resides my USB HDD ? (if I remember right something like cd /tmp/usbmounts and then ls)
Then I'll be sure that my external HDD recognised by PBO with right way

Yeah, you can cd /tmp/usbmounts/
then ls and you should see:

sdb1

[jurijz]

The PBO uses automount to connect your USB devices and mount them. Therefore if you have your second HDD off then reboot your HDD with your movies will be mounted as sdb1 because it is the only one. You obviously have an internal drive which is mounted as sda1; so next device in line will be sdb1 (HDD with movie). Now if you turn on your second HDD and reboot. It could for example detect your HDD internal (Always first) and mounts it again as sda1; now it detect your second HDD and mount it as sdb1; next it detect your HDD with movies and mount it as sdc1. Since your jukebox.xml points to sdb1 for your movies it points on your second HDD without the movies and jukebox is empty.

The easiest thing to do would be to make sure that the second HDD is off when you reboot; this will make sure that the HDD with the movies get mounted as sdb1. After the boot up process you could turn on your second HDD and it will be mounted as sdc1 which is ok. I am not sure how the PBO determine which HDD gets mounted first but doing what I just mentioned should resolve your issue if that is what it is at all.

Hope this helps.

Yes, it should help, I hope so
I've learn something new, what is very positive I guess.
Thanks again for good lesson

[snappy46]

Here's a All Movie genre that I created that integrate well with SRJG; I am not very good with graphics (GIMP Program) so not as nice as the other genre but close.genre.jpg

Cheers !!

[ckalem]

Hi, I have been attempting for some time now to get the Simple RSS Jukebox working and have gotten to a point where I could use some help.

I have placed my movie folders in a directory structure per the instructions, added genre.jpg files to the genre folders, and run thumbgen to create thumbnails for each movie folder.

I am using the standard P70R2 firmware and have installed the improved ims and srj v4.1. Both have installed without error after some initial difficulties. I edited the menu.rss per the documentation and ran the jukebox_update. After some initial difficulties, the jukebox.xml folders were created in my genre folders without error.

My problem is that when I access Movie Jukebox and select HDD, my movies do not show up. I was a bit confused in interpreting the documentation on how to edit the menu.rss file. Below shows the section that I edited. It now has two “Movie Jukebox” entries , one pointing to MainJukebox.rss and the other to Movie_Jukebox.rss. Should both of these exist in menu.rss? Also, I never see the srjglogo.jpg image in any of the menus.

</mediaDisplay>^M
<channel>^M
<title>Main</title>^M
<link>./scripts/menu.rss</link>^M
<menu>main menu</menu>^M
<!--^M
<item>
<title>Movie Jukebox</title>
<link>rss_file:///usr/local/etc/srjg/MainJukebox.rss</link>
<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/srjg/srjglogo.jpg"/>
</item>
<item>^M
<title>Internet Channels </title>^M
<link>rss_file://./scripts/video_guide.rss</link>^M
<media:thumbnail url="image/main_menu_item_youtube.png" width="256" height="144" />^M
<mediaDisplay name=threePartsView showNestedHeader=no showDefaultInfo="no"/>^M
</item>^M
-->^M
^M
<!--jukebox-->^M
<item>^M
<title>Movie Jukebox </title>^M
<link>rss_file:///usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss</link>^M
<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/image/main_menu_item_jukebox.png" width="256" height="144" />^M
<mediaDisplay name=threePartsView showNestedHeader=no showDefaultInfo="no"/>^M
</item>^M
^M
<!--youtube-->^M
^M
<item>^M
<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/image/main_menu_item_youtube.png" width="256" height="144" />^M
<title>YouTube</title>^M
<link>rss_file://./scripts/youtube_menu.rss</link>^M
<mediaDisplay name=threePartsView ^M


I have also edited the Movie_Jukebox.rss file and tried pointing the HDD Jukebox to both the location of my movie library (on a NAS, but no jukebox.rss file), and the location of the jukebox.rss file (usr/local/etc/srjg/Jukebox.rss).

I have noticed that the jukebox.rss file has a pointer to a tmp/destination file or folder, where I assume the path to my movie folders would be stored. Unfortunately, this file or folder does not exist.

I should also mention that I have edited the rcS file to mount my NAS at startup and can access my movie library from the browser/hdd menu.

Sorry for the long message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[jurijz]

pic1.jpg
pic2.jpg
I had similar questions while tried to get it work. There was a question in my head where should be resided this Simple Snappy's Jukebox.
For the first time I had replaced the old Movie Jukebox in /usr/local/bin/scripts/menu.rss by new one Simple RSS Jukebox.
Surely in this case I lost ability to use old version of Movie Jukebox
Then I had changed things a little bit - returned back link to old version to /usr/local/bin/scripts/menu.rss and add add snappy' simple jukebox to /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss (for the first I added new entry from my remote and then edit mentioned path via telnet)
Now I can use both versions, old one and new Simple RSS Jukebox, which is quite good for me.
You can see couple pictures in attachment (sorry for pure quality)
Snappy, please correct me if I'm wrong
By the way, I'm still having a problems after rebooting (some folders in Main Jukebox Menu mistically came empty, not all of them, but just couple). Jukebox.xml files are OK. It looks like a devil's joke
I've tried almost everything, use another external HDD (freshly formatted into NTFS), downgraded to R02 and fleshed back to P70R2 BCN (I thought probably rss files were crashed somehow while editing), double checked how PBO recognise attached HDD, cd /tmp/usbmounts/ and then ls to be sure that my external HDD recognised as sdb1 - no result, content of some subdirectories dissapears somehow

[snappy46]

Hi, I have been attempting for some time now to get the Simple RSS Jukebox working and have gotten to a point where I could use some help.

I have placed my movie folders in a directory structure per the instructions, added genre.jpg files to the genre folders, and run thumbgen to create thumbnails for each movie folder.

I am using the standard P70R2 firmware and have installed the improved ims and srj v4.1. Both have installed without error after some initial difficulties. I edited the menu.rss per the documentation and ran the jukebox_update. After some initial difficulties, the jukebox.xml folders were created in my genre folders without error.

My problem is that when I access Movie Jukebox and select HDD, my movies do not show up. I was a bit confused in interpreting the documentation on how to edit the menu.rss file. Below shows the section that I edited. It now has two “Movie Jukebox” entries , one pointing to MainJukebox.rss and the other to Movie_Jukebox.rss. Should both of these exist in menu.rss? Also, I never see the srjglogo.jpg image in any of the menus.

</mediaDisplay>^M
<channel>^M
<title>Main</title>^M
<link>./scripts/menu.rss</link>^M
<menu>main menu</menu>^M
<!--^M
<item>
<title>Movie Jukebox</title>
<link>rss_file:///usr/local/etc/srjg/MainJukebox.rss</link>
<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/srjg/srjglogo.jpg"/>
</item>
<item>^M
<title>Internet Channels </title>^M
<link>rss_file://./scripts/video_guide.rss</link>^M
<media:thumbnail url="image/main_menu_item_youtube.png" width="256" height="144" />^M
<mediaDisplay name=threePartsView showNestedHeader=no showDefaultInfo="no"/>^M
</item>^M
-->^M
^M
<!--jukebox-->^M
<item>^M
<title>Movie Jukebox </title>^M
<link>rss_file:///usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss</link>^M
<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/image/main_menu_item_jukebox.png" width="256" height="144" />^M
<mediaDisplay name=threePartsView showNestedHeader=no showDefaultInfo="no"/>^M
</item>^M
^M
<!--youtube-->^M
^M
<item>^M
<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/P61_IMS_V1/image/main_menu_item_youtube.png" width="256" height="144" />^M
<title>YouTube</title>^M
<link>rss_file://./scripts/youtube_menu.rss</link>^M
<mediaDisplay name=threePartsView ^M


I have also edited the Movie_Jukebox.rss file and tried pointing the HDD Jukebox to both the location of my movie library (on a NAS, but no jukebox.rss file), and the location of the jukebox.rss file (usr/local/etc/srjg/Jukebox.rss).

I have noticed that the jukebox.rss file has a pointer to a tmp/destination file or folder, where I assume the path to my movie folders would be stored. Unfortunately, this file or folder does not exist.

I should also mention that I have edited the rcS file to mount my NAS at startup and can access my movie library from the browser/hdd menu.

Sorry for the long message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok first the easy part. My bad the documentation should specify a "width" and "height" for the thumbnail. so the entry in the menu should be:

<media:thumbnail url="/usr/local/etc/srjg/srjglogo.jpg" width="256" height="144" />

As far as keeping the Movie_Jukebox it's really up to you. Right now SRJG and Improved IMS are separate script but I am planning on joining them together eventually and the Movie_jukebox will dissappear. So Improved IMS will also install SRJG and amend the menu.rss accordingly.

I will need to see an extract of your /usr/local/etc/srjg/mainjukebox.xml to be able to help you further with the HDD access. Have you run the script (jukebox_update.sh) with the -i option on the upmost directory of your movies ????? You need to do that to create the mainjukebox.xml which points to all the other jukebox/xml.

Anything stored in the /tmp directory is only created when needed and used/discard. Anything created on the /tmp will dissapear on reboot.

Anyhow lets concentrate on your mainjukebox.xml first.

Snappy46

[snappy46]

By the way, I'm still having a problems after rebooting (some folders in Main Jukebox Menu mistically came empty, not all of them, but just couple). Jukebox.xml files are OK. It looks like a devil's joke
I've tried almost everything, use another external HDD (freshly formatted into NTFS), downgraded to R02 and fleshed back to P70R2 BCN (I thought probably rss files were crashed somehow while editing), double checked how PBO recognise attached HDD, cd /tmp/usbmounts/ and then ls to be sure that my external HDD recognised as sdb1 - no result, content of some subdirectories dissapears somehow

Sorry to hear that. I absolutely have no idea why this is happenning.

[jurijz]

Sorry to hear that. I absolutely have no idea why this is happenning.

I thought so
OK, then waiting for new version of Impoved IMS with integrated SRJG.
Hopefully there will be less chance for users to broke something while editing menu.rss because of "fat fingers"
Thanks for your input