Add visual epg

[disleyland]

another option is simply to extend the hours in the "list" view like other apps do. e.g.

this might actually be better on iphones given the small screen real estate

[zipleen]

https://github.com/zipleen/tvheadend-iphone-client/commit/d85047efd49aea7f1260591083510d4f85ee45c2 and https://github.com/zipleen/tvheadend-iphone-client/commit/8d0207cb38c22ea3ec2a069bd6f457d18243465c are a little experiment for 2.1

@disleyland those pictures are actually nice, but I can't control the background on them - it's up to the user to put cute pictures with backgrounds on them… and regarding the border rounding, on the iPad1 that would make the list very very sluggish. I need to re-test that... The content-type as colours is actually quite nice, but 90% of my satellite stream does not have such info.. which I think almost everywhere is like that, so this could actually work in the UK but in the rest of the world, people would just see dashes with the same colour ...

[james-fry]

Regarding the coloured dashes for content type, you could add this but make the default colour (where no genre is given) to be the same as background colour...

[zipleen]

and what type of color corresponds to the genre ? I don't have any experience with the genre thing, for me it seems that you won't know what type of genres you have because the provider sets the text for the genres.. how could I have a list of all the genres available?

[disleyland]

Hi,

These are the categories that my UK freeview over-the-air grabber uses:

Movie / Drama News / Current affairs Show / Game show Sports Children's / Youth programmes Music / Ballet / Dance Arts / Culture (without music) Social / Political issues / Economics Education / Science / Factual topics Leisure hobbies

Not all programmes have a content type specified i notice.

In regards to colour coding, i’d use the following principle: There are going to be so many categories that if you tried to use a distinct colour for each category, it would be a bit pointless because the user would not remember differences. So visually, the point of adding any colour signal on a programme list view is to allow us to discriminate a few high value content outliers from all the usual noise of crap programming. The high value program types are usually “sports” and “movie”. So I’d suggest not having any colour signal for most content types so that the high value one’s stand out visually (rather then get drowned out in a sea of discordant colours). In terms of implementation, i usually see a thin vertical colour bar at say the far right edge of the item row (after the “>” icon in your implementation). probably just like 5 pixels wide or something like that.

where visually, you just want a few colours to highlight the relatively few outlier programmes types, in terms of words, users would want a search/filter feature that allow us to filter the “now” list by whatever category list our tvheadend server is using (presumably, this can be retrieved once like how you retrieve the icons once now). this way you get the best of both worlds, ability to get whatever content types are tagged, and ability to quickly see the big ticket item programmes.

in terms of colour, i’d suggest red for sport, and blue for a film using the same reds and blue values as your app already uses consistently throughout.

Richard

On 10 Nov 2013, at 02:20, Luis Fernandes notifications@github.com wrote:

and what type of color corresponds to the genre ? I don't have any experience with the genre thing, for me it seems that you won't know what type of genres you have because the provider sets the text for the genres.. how could I have a list of all the genres available?

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[james-fry]

You are right that the epg provider sets the categories /genres. The uk EIT epg uses different categories than the uk radio times xmltv feed. I think maybe xmltv may provide some values for genre but not force compliance.

Therefore it would be necessary to allow Config of colour to genre string.

In terms of colours to us/default, I suggest to align with xbmc. Out of interest I found that uk EIT works for colour coding in xbmc oob, but rt xmltv did not...

Cheers James

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and what type of color corresponds to the genre ? I don't have any experience with the genre thing, for me it seems that you won't know what type of genres you have because the provider sets the text for the genres.. how could I have a list of all the genres available?

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[nbittmann]

Is there any plan for a better epg ? Really like the app but like all TVH apps the epg isn't very good I would like to see something simmiliar to the Kodi epg

[zipleen]

yes it's still on, the tvhclient for apple tv implements it

[zipleen]

soon..