Author: Fonceur
Short Description: Improved conflict resolution and more
Long Description: BTV-Negociator (cross between the French négociateur and English negotiator as both language files are included, feel free to send me yours...) is a little project that I started to teach myself C#. It is an add-on for Beyond TV, originally created to help resolve recording conflicts. Since then, extra features such as changing the recording frequency, creating mass recording, removing blocked/forced/recent recordings and performing permanent searches have been added.
Version Number: 4.15
Status: In development
Last Updated: 14 July 2008
Homepage: http://fonceur.tripod.com/BTV-Nego/Nego.html
Installation Instructions: The application does not come with an installer, so just unzip the file in the appropriate folder and run BTV-Negociator.exe from there or through a shortcut.
If the BTV-Server is not located at
http://localhost:8129 (how do you access the web admin from this machine?) with a blank password, you can edit the configuration file BTV-Negociator.ini. Alternatively, if no connexion are made BTV-Negociator will go to the Configuration tab, sub-tab Parameters so you can input the appropriate values (remember to save...).
The BTV license information is automatically obtained from the appropriate registry key (tested with version 3.7.4 of BTV registered, BTV-Link registered or unregistered). I recommand to set your unsubscribed channels as Hidden to avoid false alternatives/recordings...
Release Notes:
What BTV-Negociator does is to list:
* All the Rejected recordings due to a Conflict. The list of shows creating that conflict and alternate times/channels to record are also provided. It is possible to modify from record once to always, if that solves a conflict as well as to add the alternate recording or replace the conflict by it. By using the auto-refresh timer, BTV-Negociator can be run in the background and setup a fake recording to warn you of conflict(s).
* All the Blocked recordings.
* All the Forced recordings.
* All the Recent recordings.
* All the Rejected recordings with the reason (can be filtered).
* All the Upcoming recordings.
* All the Duplicate recordings with the possibility of blocking extra recordings. Conflicts appear in red.
* All the Recording jobs with the possiblity of changing their frequency, to create a mass recording (record on any channel at any time), etc.
* Results from searches by Keyword, by Title or for a specific Episode in a Serie. To search by Episode, the Serie must first be added from another list, then the format Serie: episode (i.e. Lexx: The Giga Shadow) will add a new episode to that search. Through the use of a context menu appropriate to the current list (accessed by right-clicking), it is possible to create/modify Recording jobs, add Searches, remove/force/block a specific recording, etc.
Recent changes:
- Updated the IMDb parsing to grab the description.
License: Freeware, donations accepted at:
http://fonceur.tripod.com/Donation.html
Requirements: BTV 3.7.4 (or link) + .Net Framework
Download BTV-Negociator_4.15.zip
