Yahoo! widget has been updated

[Daniel Hall at IceTV]

The Yahoo! Widget engine widget has been updated and is once again available.

More details at http://www.icetv.com.au/news/?p=984

[tonymy01]

YAY!
And it works... well, it displays EPG.  Will see how it goes this weekend :-)
Cool, it supports the DST transition properly, so it is nice that it just doesn't blindly add the GMT offset to the GMT EPG entries.

(Unlike the Beyonwiz itself.. which does just add the *current* offset to *ALL* EPG & timers that ICE provides it).

Regards

[prl]

But the new widget still doesn't distinguished between queued and scheduled recordings

Which wouldn't matter so much if timer setting was all working smoothly.

[JPP]

Don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't get it to successfully fetch the token - keeps on telling that no token was available. Have authorised it numerous times....Deleted all tokens in My Account, reloeaded the Widget...try again...My Account shows two entries for every instance that I authorise it.....going around in a loop...............

[tonymy01]

But the new widget still doesn't distinguished between queued and scheduled recordings

??  I see donuts vs solid dots.  e.g. all the grey dots due to choosing first runs but the shows are repeats.

[prl]

But the new widget still doesn't distinguished between queued and scheduled recordings

??  I see donuts vs solid dots.  e.g. all the grey dots due to choosing first runs but the shows are repeats.

Do you see any red donuts? For shows that you know won't have been scheduled, like on next Thursday? I see grey donuts, too. But the distinguishing difference between the icons for "queued" vs "scheduled" is red donut vs solid red.

[Lindsay]

The Yahoo! Widget engine widget has been updated and is once again available.

More details at http://www.icetv.com.au/news/?p=984

It also offers me C31 as one of the recording options. Nice to see that the possibility of C31 is still alive.

[JPP]

But the new widget still doesn't distinguished between queued and scheduled recordings

??  I see donuts vs solid dots.  e.g. all the grey dots due to choosing first runs but the shows are repeats.

Do you see any red donuts? For shows that you know won't have been scheduled, like on next Thursday? I see grey donuts, too. But the distinguishing difference between the icons for "queued" vs "scheduled" is red donut vs solid red.

Peter, AFAICR, in the latter days of the last widget, there was no distinction between queued and scheduled red icons. I hope that this distinction will return!

[JPP]

Don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't get it to successfully fetch the token - keeps on telling that no token was available. Have authorised it numerous times....Deleted all tokens in My Account, reloeaded the Widget...try again...My Account shows two entries for every instance that I authorise it.....going around in a loop...............

Fixed by self with support from ICETV . For some reason, I had to disconnect/reconfigure my Internet Firewall. The last Widget had no such problem. I guess the issue maybe because my AntiVirus software has changed in the meantime.

[prl]

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Peter, AFAICR, in the latter days of the last widget, there was no distinction between queued and scheduled red icons. I hope that this distinction will return!

My recollection is that the Widget never distinguished betwen queued and scheduled. The OSX Dashboard widget doesn't distinguish, either.

[JPP]

My recollection is that the Widget never distinguished betwen queued and scheduled. The OSX Dashboard widget doesn't distinguish, either.

Well, I think it did initially, perhaps before you came to use the Widget. However, there often was a discrepency between what it showed and what was actually happening. I think for this reason that they abandoned the queued state of the icon.

But, interestingly, the grey icons do have holes in them, showing that having holes in doughnuts is not a problem pers se  ., or to put it another way, if non-recording icons can be made to show that (phantom) recording events have been queued, why not real ones?  And, as we said before, the Red Recording icons should be enabled so as to distinguish between queued and scheduled recordings. Without this, they're only half the ful bottle.

[Daniel Drysdale at IceTV]

We have never supported the status of the recordings in the widget.

We have a few things we wanted to add to the widgets in this update but we had to bump them to a future version.

Support for task status requires extending the web services API the widgets are based on as well as substantial changes in the widgets themselves.

We have no firm timeframe on the next round of updates, let me catch up on my sleep, it's been a hard slog to get these done.

[prl]

My recollection is that the Widget never distinguished betwen queued and scheduled. The OSX Dashboard widget doesn't distinguish, either.

Well, I think it did initially, perhaps before you came to use the Widget. ...

I think I've been using the Widget for most, if not all, of its public release life. Anyway, Daniel from IceTV has confirmed that the widget never showed scheduled/queued status.

[JPP]

I think I've been using the Widget for most, if not all, of its public release life. Anyway, Daniel from IceTV has confirmed that the widget never showed scheduled/queued status.

Yes, the neurons may not be connecting as well as they used to  . Could have sworn it was thus  . Anyways, apologies to all concerned. By the sound of it, the ICETV Software team have been burning the midnight oil to get this out before this long weekend.

[BillD]

The Yahoo! Widget engine widget has been updated and is once again available.

More details at http://www.icetv.com.au/news/?p=984

With the new Yahoo widget just released, when I click on a show, it does not pop-up any detailed info about the show.   Is this feature no longer available in the new widget?  I'm using a free subscription and Windows Vista.

I had been used to the old "IceTV Windows Edition" widget for the last couple of months (it still works) and it does give pop-up details.  It's useful for sports programs when the one-line descriptions truncate the name of the teams playing ;-)