Adding poster art to the PyTiVo mobile web app!

[bradleys]

I have been playing around a little bit with the PyTiVo UI html... Not long ago the look was refreshed for mobile devices by one of the contributers.

I liked the look on my iPad, but decided I needed to add something a little bit extra for the DVD archive on my server. Poster Art!

I pull the art from an online movie database api and use the metadata title and year. I can extend this to the TiVo repositories too - but since they are mostly television programs, I need to see if I can find a source for that art... Anyway - I have been sitting in an office so long, it was nice to actually play with the code again.

Tell me what you think.

[windracer]

You might want to talk to dlfl since he grabs poster art for TV shows in MetaGenerator 3 (http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/forum/metagenerator-version-3-t1786.html). Looks like he's using TVDB and TVRage.

I'll have to try out the new mobile UI for pyTivo as well, looks nice.

[bradleys]

I am using the mmetagenerator 3, and that is what originally got me thinking about this... But as I got into the project - getting the script to find the right directory and get the proper reference just turned into a pain.

So, I figured it would be easier to make the web call myself. Also, if I want to grab the poster art from the TiVo collections - this approach will allow me to do that.

I just need to work on getting the call for television art to work a little better before I commit to that.

[bradleys]

I actually thought there would be more interest in this! :rolleyes: I think this is a pretty cool hack - I love being able to see the poster art when I am browsing my movie library...

http://www.ffcars.com/photopost/data/500/medium/ipad1.png

[windracer]

You're pulling those images from the internet, though, right? I have all my poster art in .meta folders along with the other metadata (for streambaby and vidmgr) so it'd be cool if you could use the local art/files instead of downloading external ones. That'd probably be faster too ...

Of course, I'm saying all this having not used the mobile UI fork of pyTivo yet. :)

[bradleys]

I started this project with exactly that goal.

But, sadly I must admit - I just could not get my code to work. I started with the image name from the metagen 3 metatdata file and then tried to dynamically append that to the path from the directory.

Unfortunately, I have videos in multiple shares on my server and I just could not get the code nailed down to generate the path information. I did not go digging through the python - so there might be a way, but I decided this was a more bullet proof solution.

Since this UI can only be used at home via wifi - it generates the poster art very quickly.