[Plugin] Advanced-Event-Library

Plugin for using images and extra data in skins.
Please only install if your skin supports the library or if you want to and can skin yourself!
The library provides for Skinner Converter and Renderer in order to be able to display pictures and extended program and film information in the skin.

Functionality:
The library, which is started by defined task or manually, searches the current EPG, the VTIDB as well as all .m.e.t.a, .ts, .mkv, .avi and .mpg files of your recording directory and searches for these events on TV-Movie, TMDb, TVDb, OMDB, maze.tv and altersfreigaben.de for posters and backdrops and stores them permanently on the HDD, USB or NAS. In addition, a separate database is created in which the genre, year of publication, rating, FSK approval and country are saved. A prerequisite for a high and good hit rate is always a current EPG on the box, regardless of whether it is updated by EPGShare, EPGRefresh or in other ways.

Starting options of the plugin:
Extension menu
Define an FB key with MultiQuickButton
Assignment of a color key in the MovieList
Using the EPG button in the EPGSelection (adjustable in the plugin)
Settings in the plugin: "Data directory (press OK)" - Selection of the storage location of the pictures and the DB
"Maximum storage space (GB)" - Setting the maximum storage space to be used. There is a counter in the DB that counts the number of views of each saved image. If the memory requirement is exceeded, the images that were least displayed are always deleted.
"Number of preview images in the editor" - Number of preview images for posters and covers in the editor
"Quality of the posters in the editor" - resolution of the posters downloaded by the editor.
"Quality of the covers in the editor" "- resolution of the covers downloaded by the editor.
"use EPG key in EPGSelection to call the plugin" - this enables the plugin to be started in EPGSelection to e.g. edit missing or wrong entries.
Please be careful when choosing "original" for the quality of posters and covers! The images can be several megabytes in size. If such images are assigned to programs or recordings, there may be delays in loading the images.

Operation of the plugin:
Red button - Exit the plugin and return to the previous screen
Green button - save the settings made in the setup and restart the box
Yellow button - start of a manual search
Blue button - Opens the editor for the current event
Exit button - Exit the plugin and return to the previous screen
Menu key - Opens a selection menu with the following actions
'Delete entry' - deletes the current entry from the DB, images are retained, the entry may be requested again during the next search, insofar as it is available in the EPG or as a recording.
'Delete entry and put on blacklist' - deletes the current entry from the DB, images are retained, the entry is no longer requested during a search.
'Delete poster' - deletes an existing poster
'Delete cover' - deletes an existing cover
'Delete thumbnails' - deletes all preview images (useful if the skin used has defined a different size of the images)
'Delete BlackList' - deletes the entire blacklist of the DB. All entries will be requested again during the next search, insofar as they are available in the EPG or as a recording.
'create EPG share default image' - only for FluidNext users and installed EPGShare! Generates an EPGShare default image from an existing cover for use with FluidNext.
Operating the editor: The editor is used for the manual search of pictures and event information or for the manual editing of incorrect or incomplete entries. Red button - Accept the data and close the editor. If the event is an existing recording and there is no .eit or .**** file, a.**** and a .txt file with the information is created, which can be displayed in the MovieList or MoviPlayer. Green button - activate the editor. Here genre, country, year of publication, rating and FSK can be edited manually. Clicking OK under "Search EventName" opens the virtual keyboard with which the event name can be adapted or simply searched again. The search text can also include the year for better results to obtain . (Example: "Illuminat (2009)") After confirming OK all results are listed that match the search query. After selecting the correct entry, the data is transferred to the editor and the images may be reloaded. Yellow button - activate the poster selection. The selected poster is accepted by pressing OK. Blue button - activates the cover selection. The selected cover is accepted by pressing OK.

- Display problems fixed
- If you still don't know where the default pictures on your box belong, look in the log file (2nd line). This folder + / Default leads to success.

Preview of the upcoming version
- AEL Prime-Time-Planner: Overview of the programs at prime time sorted by genre
- AEL series start planner: Overview of all series starts sorted by genre
- AEL EPG list: EPG list in the EPG selection with thumbnails

- Fixed display errors in the planners
- Key assignment green / blue - Timer / switching swapped in the planners
- kexmap.xml taken from @schomi
- Converter AdvancedEventLibraryNextEvents now also works in the IB and SIB. with source = "session.extEvent_Now"
- Timers that are created in the planners are only created after confirmation in the timer editor.
- The event lists of the planners remain at the current position after creating a timer and do not jump back to position 1.
- Font colors of all AEL EPG lists can be defined via color definition in the skin.

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XML Source Code
<color name="EventLibraryListsFirstLineColor" value="#F0FFFF" />
<color name="EventLibraryListsSecondLineColor" value="#909090" />
<color name="EventLibraryListsFirstLineColorSelected" value="#070d0d" />
<color name="EventLibraryListsSecondLineColorSelecte d" value="#104E8B" />
without definition, the font color is always #FFFFFF.

- NEW backup function can be performed via the menu button in the plugin or as a separate task.

1. Image review added to editor menu.
- All AEL images in the directories are checked. If no valid JPG format is recognized for files or if files with extensions other than .jpg are present, they will be deleted.
2. Revised storage space check
3. TV-Movie preview images can be automatically deleted if the relevant program no longer appears in the EPG. Can be set in the setup.
4. Bing Image Search added to manual search in the editor. The known providers are used for the search query for images. If the number of images found is less than the number set in setup, the results list will be filled with results from Bing.
5. Fixed memory usage by AEL.
6. MovieWall
- Accelerated start by temporarily storing the recording data (noticeable from the 2nd start after the update)
- Data update after the search, at the beginning and end of a recording
- MovieWall can be displayed in list view (switch via TXT button or permanently via menu)
- Added database-based deletion to the menu
- Copy recording added to menu
- Recordings that are still encrypted or in progress are displayed
7. Prime-Time and Series Start Planners
- Planner can be displayed in wall view. (Switchover using the TXT button or permanently via the menu)
8. AEL gets its own selection menu in the main menu with extended statistics and from which all screens can be reached.
9. All AEL screens can be called up separately via the extension menu and can therefore also be assigned to a key with MQB.
10. When starting the editor, images are no longer searched for directly, but the existing poster / cover is displayed first. These can be deleted by selecting the corresponding list or searched for and assigned again by pressing the menu key.
11. Adaptation of the Eventview screen for MovieSelection, AEL-MovieWall and MoviePlayer (BETA!).
- Additional .txt files can be stored for all playable file formats, which are displayed on the screen or attached to existing event descriptions.

- Fix of the reported crash in the MediaHub
- Fix incorrect display of the trailer symbol when calling the Eventview for recordings without .eit files
- Reference list for TV feature films expanded for cable network users
For the cable network users, I have recorded most of the main channels, the rest will follow later.
Attention, if you have already modified your tvsreflist.data yourself, please make a backup beforehand, as it will be overwritten by the installation!