[VU+ Duo2] OpenViX Spinner

[Narl]

Just watching tv earlier and a I noticed this red circle in the corner of the screen, I reflashed the image and done all the normal settings but it has came back again, the box didn't freeze but it was very slow.

Anyone know if there is a setting that has maybe been activated causing this to happen??

 

[spanner123]

It's probably when the box is doing an autotimer scan, this does slow the box down quite a bit for some reason. Set it to poll just once a day then it's not so annoying.

 

[ccs]

It's probably when the box is doing an autotimer scan, this does slow the box down quite a bit for some reason. Set it to poll just once a day then it's not so annoying.

.... although doing that could miss any late programme reschedules.

Mine is set to 25 minutes, and I've never noticed the spinner.

 

[spanner123]

.... although doing that could miss any late programme reschedules.

Mine is set to 25 minutes, and I've never noticed the spinner.

I have a solo2 and have always noticed a slowing down of the box when polling autotimer sometimes with a spinner and sometimes without.

By the way with the latest image the poll timer is in hours so are you sure it is not set to 25 hours?

With the older images I had mine set to 1440 minutes (24 hours) then realised with the new images it was set to 1440 Hours!

 

[spanner123]

Edit- web page glitched and posted twice!

 

[ccs]

By the way with the latest image the poll timer is in hours so are you sure it is not set to 25 hours?

With the older images I had mine set to 1440 minutes (24 hours) then realised with the new images it was set to 1440 Hours!

Thanks for that - it does say hours

I wonder if anyone can confirm that the unit is now in hours rather than minutes?

My vote is for minutes if it isn't already.

Discussed here http://www.world-of-satellite.com/s...ng-via-Web-I-F&p=421749&viewfull=1#post421749 a while ago, but I'm now even more confused.

 

[birdman]

I wonder if anyone can confirm that the unit is now in hours rather than minutes?

Yes - it does look that way, given that mine is now set to 135 hours!?
I did see some code changes passing by abut this, but I'd assumed that this was just a display issue, not changing the units of an existing variable.

My vote is for minutes if it isn't already.

So would mine be. If you only get your EPG by downloading it then I suppose there's only a need to run it shortly after the download, as nothing will change until the next one. But for those of us picking up the EPG from the broadcast signal (e.g. terrestrial Freeview) than the EPG can change at any time.

 

[Huevos]

Beyonwiz, OpenMIPS, and OpenATV poll in minutes. All othe distros poll in hours.

 

[ccs]

I've had debug logs running for nearly an hour, I'll report back later.

 

[ccs]

Autotimer still seems to be running at 25 minute intervals, with a 3 minute warning flag before hand. (5.0.026)

2017-09-17 12:41:34     50.767  [Timezones] AutoTimer poll will be run in 3 minutes
2017-09-17 12:41:41     57.645  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Enabled
2017-09-17 12:44:41    237.645  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll
2017-09-17 12:44:41    237.646  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Started
2017-09-17 12:47:34    410.867  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll
2017-09-17 12:47:34    410.868  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Started

2017-09-17 13:09:41   1737.714  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll
2017-09-17 13:09:41   1737.715  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Started
2017-09-17 13:12:34   1910.915  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll
2017-09-17 13:12:34   1910.916  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Started

2017-09-17 13:34:41   3237.737  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll
2017-09-17 13:34:41   3237.737  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Started
2017-09-17 13:37:34   3410.963  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll
2017-09-17 13:37:34   3410.963  [AutoTimer] Auto Poll Started

 

[birdman]

By the way with the latest image the poll timer is in hours so are you sure it is not set to 25 hours?

Well, the menu says that it is, but that doesn't mean the code treats it that way.

The code for this looks like a mess. There seem to be various attempts (looking at commented out code) to make this setting be in hours rather then minutes (no reason ever given as to why). There are options to set the text according to the distribution (so Beyonwiz set its to be in minutes - but only in one place, not where the default value is set) but these only seem to apply to the menu text. The code that actually uses the variable always multiplies it by 60 (so treats it as minutes).

 

[ccs]

So, it's more than possible that people who think that they are setting it to 1 hour, are in fact setting it to 1 minute.

 

[birdman]

So, it's more than possible that people who think that they are setting it to 1 hour, are in fact setting it to 1 minute.

It's certain.
The thread linked to in #6 refers to an incompatibility between the AutoTimer plugin (which uses it as seconds, regardless of how it describes it, which is now image-dependant)) and the OpenWebIF plugin (which describes it as hours).
It needs consistency....

 

[Tkr001]

Are you sure? I had mine set to 1 and based on this thread have changed it to 60. Will be annoyed if that turns out to be 60 hrs

 

[birdman]

Are you sure? I had mine set to 1 and based on this thread have changed it to 60. Will be annoyed if that turns out to be 60 hrs

This is the code in AutoPoller.py

                #TODO back to hours
                #self.timer.startLongTimer(config.plugins.autotimer.interval.value * 3600)
                self.timer.startLongTimer(config.plugins.autotimer.interval.value * 60)

It's still treated as minutes. The hours coding is commented out and marked as TODO (which is wrong....).