Post by: BenJeremy on July 15, 2003, 09:35:00 AM
Post your links here and experience. The links should be to http server with complete xml files in rss format.
As some sites mangle these format, I have not had time to clean up support - but will in the 0.9n.1 release.
This is Xbox-Scene's RSS newsfeed format:
| CODE |
: : ... : : : : |
Ones in similar format should work great. If the format is different, let me know here!!
Post by: XBOX War3z on July 15, 2003, 01:10:00 PM
so anyways
http://www.php.net/news.rss
Post by: koldfuzion on July 16, 2003, 06:47:00 PM
http://www.allxboxskins.com/rssmxm.xml
I can give you guys the thumbnails too if you want them.
Does the format need to be changed, BJ ?
What about some kind of community feed for MXM? I could create a quick page
This post has been edited by koldfuzion: Jul 17 2003, 01:47 AM
Post by: BenJeremy on July 16, 2003, 07:51:00 PM
| QUOTE (koldfuzion @ Jul 16 2003, 11:41 PM) |
| Anyone interested in the Most Recent MXM skin listing? http://www.allxboxskins.com/rssmxm.xml I can give you guys the thumbnails too if you want them. Does the format need to be changed, BJ ? What about some kind of community feed for MXM? I could create a quick page |
That format should work fine....
Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't post that
I knew there was a good one I was missing.Trying to get that php.net feed to work, and I get a "301 Document moved permanently to here" and "here" is a link to the EXACT SAME PLACE I just queried for the file! Yet, IE brings up the XML...... Arrggghhhh.... Gotta love it when web servers throw curveballs at simple clients!
Post by: whoknew on July 16, 2003, 07:15:00 PM
Post by: BenJeremy on July 16, 2003, 07:27:00 PM
| QUOTE (whoknew @ Jul 17 2003, 12:09 AM) |
| Maybe you could trick the server into thinking MXM is IE? or does the problem lie elsewhere? |
I don't know. The protocol is basic "1.0" http - no headers. I may have to handle headers and such, but that will take a while. I'll play with a few other feeds and see what comes up.
Basically, some feeds will be very stubborn, and not work, even if you can read them in IE, thanks to server quirks.
Post by: koldfuzion on July 16, 2003, 08:16:00 PM
Post by: BenJeremy on July 17, 2003, 02:10:00 AM
| QUOTE (koldfuzion @ Jul 17 2003, 01:10 AM) |
| i added the author and preview image in case anyone was interested in it. |
Cool... I plan on expanding support for the different newsfeed fields and ways to display them.
The system is actually capable of handling multiple newsfeeds, too...
Post by: IHG on July 19, 2003, 07:49:00 AM
Post by: jinx_removing on July 22, 2003, 12:35:00 AM
I've been curious about this RSS feature as I don't know much about it. How does one integrate the RSS stuff into mxm.xml or menu.xml -- or, is it its own XML file? Does anyone have a working example? If this provides what I think it will to my dashboard, that'd be awesome.
Any help / documentation would be greatly appreciated. I've checked the docs that bundle with MXM and have had no luck finding info.
Thanks everyone.
-Jinx
Post by: BenJeremy on July 22, 2003, 03:05:00 AM
| QUOTE (jinx_removing @ Jul 22 2003, 04:35 AM) |
| BJ: Awesome dashboard. It is simply the best. I've been curious about this RSS feature as I don't know much about it. How does one integrate the RSS stuff into mxm.xml or menu.xml -- or, is it its own XML file? Does anyone have a working example? If this provides what I think it will to my dashboard, that'd be awesome. Any help / documentation would be greatly appreciated. I've checked the docs that bundle with MXM and have had no luck finding info. Thanks everyone. -Jinx |
It's detailed a bit in the ReadMe.txt:
| QUOTE |
* Some Newsfeed capability... Add a Newsfeed node into the Config node of MXM.xml: <Config> : : <Newsfeed name="user"> <Global>True</Global> <RotateChannels>False</RotateChannels> <URL>http://www.xbox-scen...scene.xml</URL> <UpdateIntervalMin>28</UpdateIntervalMin> <RotateItemInterval>10</RotateItemInterval> </Newsfeed> : : </Config> Access it with a text source of "newsfeed" The user MUST have a proper DNS defined, otherwise, they have to use the dotted 'numeric' IP for the server. |
Skins need to have a Text Element with source of "newsfeed" which will cycle between Titles in the supplied newsfeed(s). It will support more than one newsfeed, BTW.
I will make it much more flexible when it gets enough testing, and is relatively solid.
Post by: leftyfb on July 22, 2003, 03:12:00 AM
http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf
Post by: BenJeremy on July 22, 2003, 03:17:00 AM
| QUOTE (leftyfb @ Jul 22 2003, 07:12 AM) |
| well, not sure about rdf .. i know X-S's RSS feed is compatible with the RDF plugin in trillian, so maybe an RSS reader will be able to read RDF. http://www.slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf |
I did a little shuffling, and it SHOULD be able to read that newsfeed... try it and see, I will do some more testing just before I release n.2
Post by: jinx_removing on July 22, 2003, 06:32:00 AM
Currenlty I am using xbins.org/xbins.xml as my news feed and I can't get the news item to rotate to the next item. Here's the MXM.XML settings:
| QUOTE |
| <Newsfeed name="newsfeed"> <Global>True</Global> <RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels> <URL>http://xbins.org/xbins.xml</URL> <UpdateIntervalMin>28</UpdateIntervalMin> <RotateItemInterval>1</RotateItemInterval> </Newsfeed> |
I would think that RotateItemInterval would be the value to switch the visible news item...?
Sorry to bother -- thanks for the help. :)
This post has been edited by jinx_removing: Jul 22 2003, 01:59 PM
Post by: chilin_dude on July 22, 2003, 07:09:00 AM
Post by: BenJeremy on July 22, 2003, 08:26:00 AM
| QUOTE (jinx_removing @ Jul 22 2003, 11:26 AM) | ||
| Thanks! Got it working, but I have one oustanding issue (and I'm sure it's easy to solve): Currenlty I am using xbins.org/xbins.xml as my news feed and I can't get the news item to rotate to the next item. Here's the MXM.XML settings:
I would think that RotateItemInterval would be the value to switch the visible news item...? Sorry to bother -- thanks for the help. |
It's the number of seconds before it switches to the next item.
I'm still working out some details on different ways of displaying newsfeed information.
Post by: BenJeremy on July 22, 2003, 10:42:00 AM
| QUOTE (jinx_removing @ Jul 22 2003, 02:11 PM) |
| Gotcha -- so, if I have RotateItemInterval set to 1, then every 1 second it should be switching items in my RSS feed, correct? The Xbins feed has all the news items on its site in its XML feed -- but I only get the first one. And then it never changes. Last question - promise. -J |
Well, this might be a compiler optimization bug. I noticed it stopped working, but in my last recompile, it works fine now.
I'll be looking into it again, though soon...
Post by: koldfuzion on July 25, 2003, 05:23:00 PM
| QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Jul 22 2003, 07:42 PM) | ||
Well, this might be a compiler optimization bug. I noticed it stopped working, but in my last recompile, it works fine now. I'll be looking into it again, though soon... |
Im still having this problem with 9o2. not sure if you had a chance to look at it yet.. just thought i would post a note.
i've tried both x-s news and axs skin list for mxm... and both do the same.
Post by: BenJeremy on July 25, 2003, 05:29:00 PM
Post by: koldfuzion on July 25, 2003, 05:45:00 PM
just for clarification...
i have the same results with 9n 9n1 9n2 and 9o (o reports itself as 9n2..so im not sure if n2 and o ar ethe same.)
I tried with both the xbox-scene.com and mxmlauncher skins (just because the tags difference - single vs. multi-line)
and again, using both news feeds.
Just in case any of that helps.
Post by: koldfuzion on July 25, 2003, 10:15:00 PM
I downloaded the latest... still didnt work. WTF?
So I started trying different stuff in the MXM.XML. Loading the newsfeeds at various places. Still didnt work - WTF?
So I decided to strip my MXM.XML file all the way down to near nothing.....and that Is why I appoligize for wasting your time.
My lazy a$$ never switched my menu from the MXM.XML. It always worked exactly as intended so I never bothered.
The <MENU> -- or something between these two tags --</MENU> is what is causing the newsfeed to break.
I thought maybe the titlesort or title tags just due the similarity in the newsfeed itself. Nope. I removed everything except the menu, submenu, item and url tags of a single entry and it would still mess up the feed.
I moved the menu to menu.xml, reuploaded the two files and rebooted... and bam! in my face newsfeeds.
Thanks for the work... again.
Sorry for being a dumbass.
Post by: Dalma on July 26, 2003, 04:32:00 AM
My newsfeed just stops and isn't rotating.
This is what my mxm.xml looks like
<Config>
<Main>
<DiscTitle>Media X Menu</DiscTitle>
<DiscSubtitle> </DiscSubtitle>
<skinspath>C:MXMSkins</skinspath>
</Main>
<Network>
<UseDHCP>False</UseDHCP>
<IP>192.168.1.5</IP>
<DefaultGateway>192.168.1.1</DefaultGateway>
<SubnetMask>255.255.255.0</SubnetMask>
<DNS1>213.93.128.11</DNS1>
<DNS2>62.108.1.66</DNS2>
</Network>
<Newsfeed name="newsfeed">
<Global>True</Global>
<RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>
<URL>http://xbins.org/xbins.xml</URL>
<UpdateIntervalMin>28</UpdateIntervalMin>
<RotateItemInterval>1</RotateItemInterval>
</Newsfeed>
<Preferences>
<SynchronizeClock>true</SynchronizeClock>
<TimeServerIP>192.168.1.1</TimeServerIP>
<Nickname>Dalmas Xbox</Nickname>
</Preferences>
</Config>
I am using menu.xml as well, but i guess that's not needed with my problem atm..
Thanks for any help!
Post by: BenJeremy on July 26, 2003, 04:54:00 AM
After I do a couple more things today, and verify with WIP testers that it's working for them, I'll release a bug fix version tonight.
Post by: BenJeremy on July 26, 2003, 06:53:00 AM
Post by: Dalma on July 26, 2003, 07:18:00 AM
Post by: koldfuzion on July 26, 2003, 10:08:00 AM
I deleted my menu.xml and added the full menu back to mxm.xml and it still cycles through the newsgroup.
<Newsfeed name="user1">
<Global>True</Global>
<RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>
<URL>http://www.xbox-scen...scene.xml</URL>
<UpdateIntervalMin>20</UpdateIntervalMin>
<RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval>
</Newsfeed>
<Newsfeed name="user2">
<Global>True</Global>
<RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>
<URL>http://www.allxboxsk...ssmxm.xml</URL>
<UpdateIntervalMin>10</UpdateIntervalMin>
<RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval>
</Newsfeed>
Works Great and cycles through both feeds. Thanks BJ! U the man!
Post by: Dalma on July 26, 2003, 11:57:00 AM
| QUOTE (koldfuzion @ Jul 26 2003, 06:08 PM) |
| Yes, BJ.. that fixed it. I deleted my menu.xml and added the full menu back to mxm.xml and it still cycles through the newsgroup. <Newsfeed name="user1"> <Global>True</Global> <RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels> <URL>http://www.xbox-scen...scene.xml</URL> <UpdateIntervalMin>20</UpdateIntervalMin> <RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval> </Newsfeed> <Newsfeed name="user2"> <Global>True</Global> <RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels> <URL>http://www.allxboxsk...ssmxm.xml</URL> <UpdateIntervalMin>10</UpdateIntervalMin> <RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval> </Newsfeed> Works Great and cycles through both feeds. Thanks BJ! U the man! |
The latest "WIP" Binaries have this fix... Koldfuzio
what do you mean by this?
i already checked xbins on efnet, couldn't find anything...
Post by: a weasel on July 26, 2003, 01:25:00 PM
and no i didnt read through this thread, im in a hurry. so dont get pissed if someone mentioned this.
when the .xml is down the dashboard preformes slowly.
im using http://xbins.org/xbins.xml
Post by: a weasel on July 26, 2003, 01:35:00 PM
i was using deviod. and i switched to mxmlauncher and it worked.
Post by: BenJeremy on July 26, 2003, 02:06:00 PM
Post by: Dalma on July 27, 2003, 02:11:00 AM
I had that problem with newsfeed rotating. It works now with the .3 release.
Thanks, you're great!!
Post by: koldfuzion on July 27, 2003, 07:50:00 AM
| QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Jul 26 2003, 11:06 PM) |
| I spotted the problem with bad newsfeeds... I changed it so it will only retry every 5 minutes if it fails. |
Thats great for those that have an isolated box.
Post by: oswald on July 27, 2003, 09:11:00 PM
ArsTechnica , a good geek site
<Newsfeed name="user3">
<Global>True</Global>
<RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>
<URL>http://arstechnica.com/etc/rdf/ars.rdf</URL>
<UpdateIntervalMin>10</UpdateIntervalMin>
<RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval>
</Newsfeed>
I can't get these to work, HardOCP and Shacknews, both RDF feeds.
<Newsfeed name="user4">
<Global>True</Global>
<RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>
<URL>http://www.hardocp.com/hardocp.rdf</URL>
<UpdateIntervalMin>10</UpdateIntervalMin>
<RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval>
</Newsfeed>
<Newsfeed name="user5">
<Global>True</Global>
<RotateChannels>True</RotateChannels>
<URL>http://www.shacknews.com/headlines.rdf</URL>
<UpdateIntervalMin>10</UpdateIntervalMin>
<RotateItemInterval>5</RotateItemInterval>
</Newsfeed>
Hey!!! Stop the presses, here's one more: Another Useless Website headlines, for what it's worth.
http://anotheruseles...com/backend.php
I didn't think it would work, it did!
The site I run is a pretty vanilla PHP-Nuke 6.5 install, so I figure that means that any nuke site should work ok for the newsfeeds in the skins. That accounts for a very large number of websites, let me tell you.
Post by: a weasel on July 29, 2003, 07:38:00 AM
Post by: BenJeremy on July 29, 2003, 08:15:00 AM
| QUOTE (a weasel @ Jul 29 2003, 11:38 AM) |
| hmm, it semms to be going really slow again, the problem disapears when i disable networking. this time its with the x-s newsfeed. what's going on? |
Is there a problem with your network settings?
Post by: Crash N Burn on July 29, 2003, 08:23:00 AM
,,.............................Crash N Burn
Post by: BenJeremy on July 29, 2003, 08:29:00 AM
| QUOTE (Crash N Burn @ Jul 29 2003, 12:23 PM) |
| It did the same thing to me (running REALLY slow) when I loaded up Livewire skin. I thought it was the skin config . So I went throught it and it was fine . So I rebooted my computer /w the box off & rebooted my box and it solved it . Whew .....Let me tell ya ......................THAT SHIT SCARED ME ,,.............................Crash N Burn |
Well, if Evo-X has different network settings, it can upset the balance when switching between the two programs.
I'm going to dig into the networking mysteries soon to clean thos up once and for all. Obviously, the System UI will allow you to edit those onscreen, too.
Post by: a weasel on July 29, 2003, 08:38:00 AM
| QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Jul 29 2003, 05:29 PM) | ||
Well, if Evo-X has different network settings, it can upset the balance when switching between the two programs. I'm going to dig into the networking mysteries soon to clean thos up once and for all. Obviously, the System UI will allow you to edit those onscreen, too. |
Interesting, Because I remember going into Evox when I discovered MXM was keyboard compatible (Allthough with several limitations). I wanted to see if Evox was aswell. Just to save a few people some time, It isn't.
My solution to this problem is just deleting the Newsfeed settings in my mxm.xml.
Post by: BenJeremy on July 29, 2003, 08:45:00 AM
| QUOTE (a weasel @ Jul 29 2003, 12:38 PM) | ||||
Interesting, Because I remember going into Evox when I discovered MXM was keyboard compatible (Allthough with several limitations). I wanted to see if Evox was aswell. Just to save a few people some time, It isn't. My solution to this problem is just deleting the Newsfeed settings in my mxm.xml. |
Well, you could just synchronize the network settings between them.
My system is thrown into confusion when I switch between my Debug BIOS and 4977... because when I run Evo-X, it rapes my Debug BIOS's network settings.
The Debug BIOS emulates TWO network cards... one for debugging between the BIOS and the XDK, and another for the application's usage. Evo-X does something funky to them.
The XKD Launcher has complete network settings, though... so I will be playing with those, and comparing the results I get from the internal routines in MXM. This will allow me to better map out these settings and get network support solid (and open sourced!!).
Post by: Crash N Burn on July 29, 2003, 08:53:00 AM
) so I wouldn't think this would 'confuse' anything to say . Could it be that my DCHP setting upsetted something . Never the less it solved it by rebooting . A small price to pay . It all works now .
,,.............................................Crash N Burn
Post by: a weasel on July 29, 2003, 10:04:00 AM
| QUOTE (Crash N Burn @ Jul 29 2003, 05:53 PM) |
| I ripped EvoX out wks ago (it didn't do anything for me ) MXM is my only dash (with good reasons why ) so I wouldn't think this would 'confuse' anything to say . Could it be that my DCHP setting upsetted something . Never the less it solved it by rebooting . A small price to pay . It all works now . ,,.............................................Crash N Burn |
I use it to flash my BIOS time to time.
and i use avalaunch to download save games.
Hopefully mxm will be able to do these things soon, so there really wont be any need for evox, or really any other dash.
Post by: Amything on July 29, 2003, 11:07:00 AM
| CODE |
So when one has many newsfeeds it would display "X-S:" (for xbox scene) infront of each news item. That way we know where it comes from.
Then it would perhaps look something like this:
"X-S: Game Size Editor v1.6"
"X-S: Fceultra V6"
"AXS: Livewire"
"AXS: Black box"
Post by: BenJeremy on July 29, 2003, 11:17:00 AM
| QUOTE (Amything @ Jul 29 2003, 03:07 PM) | ||
Would it be possible to add some sort of description tag? Say like this:
So when one has many newsfeeds it would display "X-S:" (for xbox scene) infront of each news item. That way we know where it comes from. Then it would perhaps look something like this: "X-S: Game Size Editor v1.6" "X-S: Fceultra V6" "AXS: Livewire" "AXS: Black box" |
That's a good idea. I'm still hashing out a number of ways to spin the newsfeeds to suit most everybody.
Post by: Crash N Burn on July 29, 2003, 11:24:00 AM
| QUOTE (a weasel @ Jul 29 2003, 11:04 AM) |
| I use it to flash my BIOS time to time. |
I have a cheapmod so I'm using Pheonix Bios Loader (which works great) BJ will be incorp. this in his own code.
| QUOTE |
| i use avalaunch to download save games. |
I take it you don't have ftp going on
although this would be a nice feature . I'm sure it's on the bottum of the list .| QUOTE |
| Would it be possible to add some sort of description tag? So when one has many newsfeeds it would display "X-S:" (for xbox scene) infront of each news item. That way we know where it comes from. Then it would perhaps look something like this: "X-S: Game Size Editor v1.6" "X-S: Fceultra V6" "AXS: Livewire" "AXS: Black box" |
This would be a awesome add-in . Confusion would no longer exist on which site it comes from . Nice request .
,,..................................Crash N Burn
Post by: a weasel on July 29, 2003, 09:45:00 PM
| QUOTE (Crash N Burn @ Jul 29 2003, 08:24 PM) | ||
I take it you don't have ftp going on although this would be a nice feature . I'm sure it's on the bottum of the list . |
Ohh no, I do. It's just easier to do things from the xbox.
I hope you can edit and menu.xml and the mxm.xml though MXM in future releases. That would make life easier, But thats not to important at the moment.
Post by: Amything on July 30, 2003, 10:35:00 AM
Post by: Cofi on August 03, 2003, 08:17:00 AM
http://www.theisonew...leases-xbox.rdf
Didn't work for me... X-S works ok... so it must be the coding on isonews...
Post by: chief on August 24, 2003, 06:22:00 PM
http://w.moreover.co...y_list_xml.html
all different types here... including sports
-chief
Post by: Habs69M on August 26, 2003, 02:24:00 PM
| QUOTE (chief @ Aug 25 2003, 03:22 AM) |
| found a whole bunch of newsfeeds here... i haven't tested them out yet, but i assume they are in the right format http://w.moreover.co...y_list_xml.html all different types here... including sports -chief |
Anybody got these to work??
I would love to have hockey news on my box
Post by: MrSelfDestruct on September 21, 2003, 08:12:00 PM
-Sports (scores, and news and such)
-Games (game releases, scores....etc)
Ive been looking around, but its a pain in the ass to find any in the correct format
EDIT: Oh crap!!! I didnt see your post. Damn....look at all those newsfeeds!!!. It would be SWEET if those were compatible. Im going to give them a shot.
Post by: YLA G on November 13, 2003, 07:24:00 PM
| QUOTE (oswald @ Jul 28 2003, 06:11 AM) |
| Here's another working one: http://anotheruseles...com/backend.php I didn't think it would work, it did! The site I run is a pretty vanilla PHP-Nuke 6.5 install, so I figure that means that any nuke site should work ok for the newsfeeds in the skins. That accounts for a very large number of websites, let me tell you. |
can anyone tell me why this good dutch xbox site in phpnuke not ging?
http://www.x-power.be/backend.php
it looks exactly the same as the quote..
help?
Post by: YLA G on November 14, 2003, 02:20:00 AM
