News

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Intro

The news section allows the user to configure RSS feeds so they can get current news events from their personal news outlet. There are two sections of the news in xStreamed. One is the news ticker at the bottom of the main screen, the second is an independent news screen.

Installation/Setup

There is included with the install, some default RSS news feeds that reside in the xStreamed/databases directory. If the user does not wish to use these feeds, then they have to create their own. To do this the user must:

1. open Xlobby setup (F2 or through the skin setting screen)
2. select Databases
3. Then under "Create New RSS Database" enter the database name next to DB Name:
4. Enter the RSS URL internet location in the "URL(RSS feeds)" parameter field
5. click on the "Create RSS DB" button
6. select Events, and look for the news event group under SKIN
7. click on "Add Event" or modify a current news event
8. the news event consist of two commands, the first command, "set database", selects the database (RSS feed) to display in the news_rss category. The second command refreshes the category to display this feed (news_rss category is shared amongst all the RSS databases)

Now to add this feed to the menu list:

1. select Databases again

Operation

Main Menu News "Ticker" at bottom of screen will cycle different news articles

RSS News Screen

I'm planning on getting back into this and finally releasing it. The only issue that I have not been able to pin down is a timing bug. When using the ticker on the main menu screen, I set up a 30 second time to display each news article. What I'm finding out though is once the system has been brought out of standby, the timing is all messed up and articles seem to flash in the ticker at random rates. One article may be on display for 10 seconds, then a second one for 5, then two more will just flash on the screen. It will remain like this until Xlobby is restarted.