Enigma2 Backend

Important notes about VUPlus add-on

With the PVR build of XBMC it is possible to provide PVR- and DVR-like functionalities to the end-user. With the VU+ addon XBMC PVR can be used also with a connected VU+ or any other enigma2 based settop box.

Setting up VUPlus

Supported settop boxes

In general all enigma2 based settop boxes should be supported, the following are known to work. If you can confirm that the addon works with a settop box not listed below, please take a moment and post this into the PVR support forum thread for this addon.

Known to work:

• VU+Uno
• VU+Duo
• VU+Ultimo
• DM800 HD (with Gemini image & OpenPLI)
• DM8000 (OpenPLI image)

Support

If you have problems using this addon you should try and contact the author via the XBMC PVR Support forum.

Changelog

0.3.3:

• add: support for storing the last played positions for recordings. These will be stored in the file recordings.xml
• fix: if the webinterface cannot be loaded, deactivate the addon

0.3.2:

• fix: continue to load channels even if we do not have any radio channels

0.3.1:

• change: remove XMLParser- change: add enigma2 to the displayname

0.3.0:

• change: remove curl dependancy
• change: adjust to new PVR API

0.2.8:

• add: option to only fetch one TV bouquet which can be specified via the addon settings

0.2.7:

• fix: fix incorrect escape character for & (use '&' instead of '"'). Thx to 'hani' for pointing this out.

0.2.6:

• cosmetic: remove unnecessary '/' in recording-stream url
• cosmetic: inprove log output- change: get the proper device info from the reveiver box instead of just setting dummy values
• change: change the buildzip.bat to include version string in the name of the zip-file
• change: introduce a version string for the channeldata xml file so that we can invalidate old channeldata files if necessary

0.2.5:

• fix: cleanup the service reference in the streaming url

0.2.4

• fix: put username & password into the streaming url0.2.3
• fix: put username & password into recording-url

0.2.2:

• fix: escape xml entities in the stream-url before saving to channeldata.xml
• fix: fetch the version string from configure.in not the ChangeLog (thanks to 'trans')
• fix: rename changelog in addon-directory to changelog.txt

0.2.1:

• fix: encode the stream-url properly. Please remove your channeldata.xml file after updating
• change: add proper version string to the addon.xml generated by buildzip.bat (thanks to 'trans')

0.2.0:

• change: Complete rework of timer handling. Now it will only show notifications for changed items
• fix: Update / Add / Delete Timers. Note that the timer names in the XBMC are sometimes not updated properly (in the dialog it is OK)
• fix: Instant Recordings do now work again- fix: timer status is now shown correctly (completed, recording, disabled)
• fix: enabling / disabling timers do now work- change: removed "show completed timers" option (they are now always be shown)
• add: added buildzip.bat & xbmc-addon-vuplus.sln (thanks to 'trans')
• fix: Channel numbering / incorrect picons due to the change introduced in 0.1.15

0.1.15

• fix: when using the channeldata-store option not all channel groups (bouquets) were loaded due to a nulled counter variable

0.1.14

• change: change .gitignores and copy current changelog into the addon folder. This will enable the user to view the changelog in the addon settings window

0.1.13

• add: option to set deepstandby powerstate on the DVB box on PVR-addon shutdown
• fix: error in settings.xml, causing crashes on linux

0.1.12

• add: support to specify the folder for storing recordings

0.1.11

• fix: some unicode string errors in german language file
• change: add categories to addon settings0.1.10
• add: support for using only the recording path currently active on the DVB box

0.1.9

• change: add addon icon (copyied from the openelec guys, thanks!)
• fix: win32 release target (thanks to 'trans' for patch)

0.1.8

• change: fetch the recording locations and use these locations when querying the recordings
• fix: Stop update thread when destroying the PVR addon - fixes shutdown issues

0.1.7

• fix: Copy & Paste error

0.1.6

• fix: Change the logic to determine the picon file name from the service reference.

0.1.5

• fix: Fix access violation errors on windows (thanks to 'trans' for finding the correct compiler / linker settings)
• fix: do not return out of scope local variable for the streaming URL
• fix: remove the last '_' character from the filename (if applicable). Should finally fix the picon path errors.

0.1.4

• fix: limit length of the service reference part of the Icon-Path to 30 characters.
• fix: Escape "&", "<" and ">" characters in XML channeldata file.
• add: support to disable all bouquet or channel updates

0.1.3

• fix: order of timerlist cleanup and timerlist updates

0.1.2

• add: support for storing channel data into a file

0.1.1

• fix: URLEncode the service reference when fetching EPG

0.1.0

• Iniital Version