hello,
While I was working on my first plex channel I faced some framework limitations, although I found a workaround it would be much better if this would/could be implemented. I'm not an experienced python coder, so please let me know if some of this is already possible ... some thoughts/ideas :
Background Service/Polling
Is it possible to define a background task with a channel ? (e.g. automatically URL updating/polling every XX minutes EVEN if the channel isn't active).
Option to make channel strings available in the skinning engine (Plex Home Theater/Other Clients?)
This would also be a very powerful tool and together with background polling this would allow proper channel and skinning integration e.g. :
You could have a Weather Channel, which also have a background polling/service to get the current weather every XX minutes and hand the weather information like temperature over to the skinning engine. Now a skin developer could use this information from the channel/plexserver to display a weather widget.
Or you could do a "In Theaters" Deck which always shows current movies in your local theater. Anyway, I think you get my point ...
What do you guys think?
