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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
I can add the sky movie channels. Don't have any icons for them, but I'll try to create some in photoshop!

Is it the Sky sport channels that you mean? Sky sports 1 to 3?

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gsm44:
Pilot1 .... Thank you soooooooooooo much !

:)

Best application I found on internet for UK TV listings !

Works great with no issues.

Love the sliding effect.

You've done a great job in this application.

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thank you very much gsm44!! And thanks again for the donation recieved!!

I've been a bit busy during the weekend, but now there is finally a UK WVGA version available for download from the first page!

It has the same channels that are available in the VGA version, but I will add the sky movie channels and sport channels soon! (to both version of course)

Finally, let me know how the wvga version runs, as I can omly test it in the emuloator... !

Enjoy!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uniqueboy:
I guess so, I don't deeply do sports myself grand prix/snooker/world cup is as good as it gets for me. But it must be worthwhile adding any sports channels that have the info available. :)

A bit of leap, but it would be rather cool to link the times to alarms somehow...your program is about to start...kinda thing. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
I have thought about this idea as well... a button to add the show to the calendar with a reminder that goes of let's say 10 minutes before the show starts or something like that =)

I'll see if I'm able to put this together in a future release.... =)

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uniqueboy:
It sounds so easy but I bet it's not. I look forward to your future releases and thanks again for the app so far.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Well, it's not that hard actually as it turns out :)

How many minutes before a show would it be good to have the reminder set? As this will be a fixed value, at least in first version. Thinking of 5 or 10 minutes.. .what do you guys think?

Managed to code this already, just not sure where I should put the button to add the show to the calendar.. thinking of having it in a way that when you press a show button a pop up window let you select between showing information for the show or adding it to the calendar...

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dom_mitchell1:
Can I just say: "Awsome App". I'm using the WVGA UK version on my Touch HD. I've been looking for something like this for so long!

Love the idea of a calendar integration/alarm setting. 5 minutes before the start sounds good.

What would be really good as an improvement is if when you view a channel the app takes into account the current time and only shows search results from that point in time forwards rather than showing the listings for the whole day.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uniqueboy:
5 minutes sounds reasonable, just enough to log on to my slingbox and tell my sky+ box to record it if I'm out. Looking good!:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barbapappa_86:
Great app fellow countryman! :) I´ll try it asap
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Ok cool...5 minutes it is then =)

Will probably release the new versions later this week or during the weekend... the UK versions will then also include the Sky movie channels + sky sports 1-3!

Will also have a look at reducing the listing in the UK version to only show the present tvshow and onwards...this is already the case in the swedish version but only because that is how it is presented on the source for the swedish listings!

Glad you guys enjoy the application!!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dom_mitchell1:
Don't forget Sky Sports Xtra! As a rugby fan that channel is often vital for watching most of the Southern Hemisphere games.

Many thanks for all the speedy developement work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dom_mitchell1:
I don't know if you're still missing Icons for Sky Sports etc but I've attached the 4 sports channel logos and the Movies channels.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thanks buddy, couldn't really make those look nice and readable when I scaled them down, so I ended up making the icons by myself. If there is any photoshop guru that would like to make some new better looking icons for the skymovie channels and skysport channels, you are welcome to do so... please provide them in .png format and 40x66px please :)

The channel was added at your request! :)

Please let me know how the 1.10 version runs... still haven't fixed all the small things like "more shows" pages sometimes are available even if there are no more shows, but I'll get to that later. Really wanted to add the reminder option in this release plus all the new channels for my british friends =)

Note: Adding a show that airs past midnight will unfortunately add it on todays calendar and not on tomorrows... will look inte how to solve this later!!

Hope you enjoy the new release!!!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dom_mitchell1:
Excellent news. Downloading 1.10 now. Will let you know how I get on.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Great! Hope you enjoy it!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dom_mitchell1:
All seems to be working well but there is a slight problem every now and then. the program locks up and freezes before geting a .net debug notice. It looks like it's because the call to the listings provider has timed out. It tends to happen when I've checked about 3 different channels.

I'll try and get a copy of the error note next time it happens.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thanks for letting me know!!

I think I found and corrected what caused this to happen. Please download

v1.11 from post #1 and let me know if it works better now!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] uniqueboy:
Hi Pilot1, I had the bug on 1.10 but it appears to be cured in the new 1.11 build. As far as I can tell after my initial tests all is working great. The reminder feature is implemented really well and works perfectly. Just some swipe type gestures back and forward and the app will be nicely complete.:)

Thank you very much for a very useful and very nice to use app. Good stuff.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] JPW:
Hi,

WOW I have just stumbled on this thread while the family are watching Harry Potter ... All I can say is brilliant app - will be on my install list for every new rom...It works perfectly on my touch hd but if I could suggest a quicker way to get back to the main listings and perhaps a chance of viewing tommorows listings would make it better (if possible).

Great app - well done

jpw
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Glad it works better now!! Yeah, some swipe gestures would be cool.. never done that, but I'll give it a try sometime soon =)

Thanks =)

I agree that it can take a while to get back to first channels, when one is far into the listings... will have a look at putting a button in there to get right back to the start!

Viewing tomorrows listings for the UK is unfortunately not possible at this time because the sources do not provide them. It would however be possible to add that functionality in the Swedish version, I might do that later on.

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] manuv1615:
Hello Sonny

Thanks for this great app.

Works very well on my tp2.

I've noticed 2 issues:

- the listing only shows 2 pages max (e.g. for today, it doesn't display any shows for BBC1 listing past 10.30)

- not displaying properly on wvga when in landscape mode: shows listing displayed on the left while showing the show details on the right. I'll try to get you a screenshot if that helps.

A few suggestions:

- Options screen to set things like the reminder (5 mins is ok for me but I'm sure someone will ask for a different number!) and option to turn animations on/off (the wipe effect from channels to shows listing is a bit sluggish on tp2 and I would rather have it off)

- link to IMDB for movies (assuming you can get the type of show from your source)

- colour coding for programmes types, MediaPortal tv guide does something similar

HTH and thanks again for this very handy app
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paalkr:
Hi!

This is a great app, I have been looking for this for a long time. Would it be possible to add Norwegian channels as well, tv.nu has listing for those channels (for good neighbors)?? What about adding a config file and let the users choose the channels from tv.nu them selves?

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Hi,

Sorry for not answering for a few days, but I've managed to get the flu... which sucks! :(

I hope I feel better in a few days so that I can get som work done on the application!

-I assume you're using the WVGA version, and I will add another page for the tv shows so they will all show. Soon you will also be able to choose to have the application just show the present and coming shows!

-OnTV is not designed to operate in landscape mode at all, that's why it's not showing up properly.

-A settings page will be available soon, which will let you set the reminder minutes to a number of your choice!

-Unfortunately IMDB links are not available from the source, the only possible thing would be a link to the search page at imdb with a search of the show name...

-Color coding of the shows is an awsome idea.. Type of show is unfortunately not information that the source provide so not sure how that could be done...

Will put some efforts in to making a norwegian version. Which channels would you like to have available??

A config file has been on the drawing board before, just haven't got very far with it... I might look into it again when I start looking at making the norwegian version :)

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pbv302:
Pig flu!? :confused:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
I hope not... :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] THUDUK:
Thanks for this, this is a fantastic application....look forward to future releases, hopefully with listings for the next 5 days
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] manuv1615:
hope you'll get better!

yep, touch pro 2 is wvga

no probs, I'm sure we can live with that...

cool...

I'd say that a link to imdb search results would be great. But now, if you can't getthe type of show and can't distinguish movies, it could be annoying to see the imdb link all the time. what about a link to google or bing to search for the programme name?!

which source are you using?

take care
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
That might be a better idea, I agree!

I use this listing service which provides it in handy xml format. http://www.bleb.org/services/tv/data/listings/0/

I apologies for what I have said earlier that it would not be possible to show the next few days schedule for the UK version, I had forgot that the source actually do provide them....been a while since I clicked on "Parent directory" , and there it is...voilá!!!

So schedule for the next few days will soon be available in both swedish and UK version =)

I've got quite a busy week (even though I'm unemployed, imagine that :) ), so don't expect much to happen this week, but I'll put some time in whenever I can!!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] crazyC:
Thank you - this is a great app.

If you could add some of the kids TV channels - UK - that would be great? (Cbeebies, etc)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dom_mitchell1:
Still loving using this app.

What would be really good though would be if the default entry screen showed a 'Now and Next' type view for each of the channels that data is pulled for. Kind of a one view ability to see each of the channels.

Is there any way that the data can be filtered in this way?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paalkr:
Thanks a lot! I would prefer to have at least the following channel, but I'm not quite sure which Norwegian channels that are actually available in tv.nu (I would like as many as possible).

Channels:

NRK1

NRK2

NRK3

TV2 Norge

TV2 Zebra

TVNorge

TV3 (N)

Viasat 4 (N)

FEM

Discovery (N)

National Geographic (N)

Eurosport (N)

Eurosport2 (N)

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] m0nkeyman:
thank you this looks good and works well.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Hi,

Just wanted to let you guys know that I haven't abandoned this project or anything. I've just been quite busy the last two weeks so I haven't been on the forum for a while.

I'm working on a new release with some design changes, some settings that will now changeable, and there will be listings for five days available. In the UK version there will also be an option to view only the shows that air from the current time and onwards, instead of the whole days schedule. There will be some other minor changes as well.

Not sure when I will be releasing this, but I've been putting in quite a few hours this week and will try to continue to do so to get it out there as soon as possible.... =)

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Barty_2:
Great news Thanks--got this threat on daily updates:)

Appreciate your good work!!!

Regards

UK user

Miri V7.1 mil 2.5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] farqui:
Well done, this a really handy application.

Looking forward to the updates.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paalkr:
Hi!

Any news on the Norwegian listings?

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cirrus363:
Only two pages of tv listings!

Has anyone experienced only up to 20.00 on the BBC? This is 2 days running!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
please can you make this qvga this forum has many qvga users i think this app is so cool i would love to try it please :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eymen:
Could anyone with knowledge can do this for Germany.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] superdannyj:
Have you lot seen http://www.digiguide.com/

i know its a windows 86x app but its exactly what you would want to work towards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] apienk01:
Below is a link to a web service providing Polish TV listings for mobile phones in simple HTML. Could you possibly make the Polish version of OnTV?

http://lajt.onet.pl/programtv/lista.html
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] apienk01:
I can provide the program logo icons, just give me the correct format and size.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
HI all,

New version is out now. Try it out and tell me what you think of it, is it better or worse? =) As I'm changing the design even more in the next release please be forgiving on the fact that you can not always see the whole days schedule because no more pages of shows is available...this will be sorted out with the new design in the next release!

Yes there is. It's not part of this release, but I will make a norwegian release in the next major update with the channels that are availble from tv.nu.

Yes this is an issue, and you can blame it on my orinial poor design. In this version you can choose to only show broadcasts from the present time and forward which will make it a bit less of a problem. This problem should be gone in the next major release if I get the new design fully working.

There's been sooo many hours of work involved in making different resolution releases, that's why I have been trying to keep them as few as possible. That said, with the future design of OnTV I think this will be less of a problem and I might make a qvga release, but no promises.

Had a quick look at the site and I think it's quite a good souce, need to look through it a bit more though before I now for sure. No promises yet, as it takes a lot of time to adapt the extraction process from the webpages. Will not do this before the next major release though as it would be a waste of time doing it for the old design.

That would be helpful, they should be in .png fomat and 40x40 pixels. Since I won't start with the polish version until maybe 2 weeks or so (if I do one), there's no stress about these. I'll send you a pm with my email adress when I start developing, and you can just send them to me in an email!

Hope you guys enjoy the new release

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] beadza:
Another request for a QVGA version. The VGA version is usable, but the menu and channel icons and labels are all cropped.

Thanks for the great app :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] farqui:
Thanks for the update I'll wait until the next release (I'm WVGA and the schedule chops off and doesn't display shows whilst I'm at home). Keep in touch.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] cirrus363:
Brilliant!

Touch HD WVGA pretty much spot on!! Displaying shows by actual time is great. Keep up the good work!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thanks guys!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] orbit9:
Uk User here....BBC2 only shows programmes from early morning to 4.30pm. It is now 17.23 and i can't see what will be on TV when i get home from work.

Is it meant to auto-update? Am i missing something?

How can i download tonight's listings rather than every channel telling me what has been shown this morning instead of what's on tonight? In other words all the channers seem to stop at 16.00pm.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Auto-update? Not sure what you mean, but it will download each channel when you click on it to see the schedule.

If you can't see tonights schedule, try go to the settings page and

disable "Show Entire Day", then you will only see the present show and later ones!

Hope this helpes!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] orbit9:
Settings? What settings? I dont have an option for settings?

Just tried selecting BBC2 again and still showing me 6.30am - 16.30am listings.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wapvirus:
Thanks for considering my request and i understand that you are busy ,No pressure from me i would just love to have this wonderful app on my phone ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Make sure you have the latest version v1.20 that was released earlier today and is available in the first post.

If you still don't have the settings page, please let me know, then somethings wrong with the release!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] orbit9:
Ha! I downloaded version 1.11 this morning. Oh well never mind. Downloaded the lastest version and all works fine!!!

Absolutley super work!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Glad you got it working =)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] madmat_one:
This is looking really good despite the fact I'm a qvga user with cropped images ;)

A couple of suggestions, if I may...

1. it would be really useful if it cached the listings so that we can view them 'off-line' at a later time. In other words, one can download all the listings whilst docked or in wifi range and then view them at leisure in front of the telly.

2. any chance of adding the ability to use xmltv data, the number of available channels is much larger and the extent of the program data much further into the future. Obviously, some way to set which channels and for how far in the future would be useful :D

Matt
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Barty_2:
Thanks pilot1 your'e flying

Have not installed this version yet but from the change log i know this will be a big advance on the the previous Version and i will be looking out for the next release.:D Thank!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thanks Matt,

1. Cashing the listings would be great and I have thought of this before as well. This would probably require some kind of database, haven't developed anything like that before on win mobile, but I guess it wouldn't be o hard. Could probably also use a xml file to save or something like that. Will give this a serious thought later when I'm done with the next major release.

2. Not sure what source xmltv is using. But after a quick google search for xmltv and 5 minutes of reading I understand that it would open up the possibility for listing for several more countries, which would be cool. I'll have another look at this after the next m. release as well!

Hi Barty,

Yes I feel that this release has brought more value to the application, bringing in some of the features that has been requested in this thread. If I get everything to work the way I want it to, the next release will make it even better =)

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ciaran2506:
QVGA version?

Hi there any chance of there being a QVGA version at some point in the near future? Been looking for this type of app for ages but I have a QVGA HTC TyTN II.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] paalkr:
Hi!

Thanks for the information about the next major release, especially regarding the Norwegian listings. I'm really looking forward to that release. I noticed that you mentioned something about support for xmltv listings as well, and that would definitely be a great addition regarding TV-listings sources. I have worked with xmltv grabbers for different HTPC projects, and I think that xmltv support would be a great addition. I don't think there are any xmltv grabbers available for the WinMo platform at the moment, so xmltv files must be grabbed on a desktop computer and then be synced to the device. But that shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,

PK
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
See this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4643439&postcount=84

Currently working on a version with a editable xml file, in which one can edit the channels they want to be included from tv.nu. So you can then freely add which channels you want, for example the norwegian ones. The UK version will be set up in a similar way, where it's possible to choose channels from the ones available from the source.

I don't have much experience with xmltv grabbers so if I decide to start an implementation to support xmltv sources, I might send send a few questions your way if that's ok? But that will be at least a couple of weeks away from now!

I'm not really sure what information these sources provide either, so I will have to look into that, to decide if it's worth to put in the time to implement it!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deedee:
Awesome app, can see it may be very useful.

One request to make it very useful to us UK users, surprised no-one has asked before, is there any way to allow for the regional variations of BBC1, BBC2 and ITV1.

Looking at the schedule for today BBC1 I see 17:35 Midlands Today, spectacularly wrong as I am in N Ireland.

I am using this site, UKNetGuide TV, from the PC to check listings, whether it is of use to you i doubt very much.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Hi,

I'm hoping to have a editable xml file in the next release. In this xml file you can specify which channels you want to be present in OnTV from the ones available through the source. I see that variations of the BBC channels are in deed available, no sign of other ITV variations though. So, you will then be able to change the BBC channels to the ones for Northern Ireland instead! And other channels that you might want to have available!

So keep a look out for the next release =)

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] thebigbang:
nice little app mate, thanks trying now!! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thanks! Hope you like it!

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TonyJ999:
Only two pages displayed?

A very nice and usable app Sir!

There is a slight issue though if I may - on the UK version it only displays a maximum of two pages so if there are a lot of programs (as there is today on BBC1) it stops at 20:30. I have checked the settings box to "Show entire day" as well..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Drury:
would you be able to make this for WQVGA?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Pilot1:
Thanks TonyJ999!

Unfortunately that is a limitation right now. I didn't want to put down any more time in expanding the version with more pages, since I'm changing to a scrollable list in the next version, thus totally eliminating the problem. So just keep a look out for the next release!

Maybe later, if and when I decide to do a QVGA version, I might support WQVGA as well.

/Sonny
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] TonyJ999:
Cheers I'll indeed keep a look out for it!