How to Add Recently Added to your homescreen

[bobbarrett]

Answer to my prayers

The pedant in me must wonder why FEATURED and QUEUE are all caps, while Recently Added is not? Tried searching home.xml, but couldn't find it. Are these strings stored elsewhere?

[generator85]

Is there a way to add the 'boxee feeds' that you define for your account on the boxee website to the first column on the home screen?

Yeah I would like to know that too. I thought that was wat the 'boxee feeds' were for.

Answer to my prayers

The pedant in me must wonder why FEATURED and QUEUE are all caps, while Recently Added is not? Tried searching home.xml, but couldn't find it. Are these strings stored elsewhere?

You should edit id 52008 in "/language/English/strings.xml"


And is there an easy way to change the "view" of the items like in the FEEDS section? Now I just put recently added in place of the feeds, but I would like to have them both.

[brokentrees]

I'm not at home at moment and havent had a chance to play with newest version as much as I'd like but classes end tomorrow and I took off work so this weekend I will dig deeper and find some new tricks, glad everyone has benifited from my suggestions and I'll try to comment more if possible
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The feeds column on the home screen at installation is the 'featured' rss which includes videos suggested by friends as well as those imported from twitter/facebook/etc. if linked to your account

Add MY_RSS Feeds to Home Screen

Note: This will ONLY list on Home Screen your subscriptions, not the individual items within
Also, &v= removed from end of url thus on occasion you should open rss app through apps to update the 'last_feed_refresh' value

Sort - A to Z
rss://www.boxee.tv/rssapi/userfeeds?sort=name


Sort - Recently Added
rss://www.boxee.tv/rssapi/userfeeds?sort=date

[brokentrees]

So I've been able to place my Hulu queue RSS URL in lieu of the suggested feed and it works great. But i got to thinking...Since I have all of my video podcasts that I subscribe to in Google Reader,, within a folder...I was wondering if there was a way to make one RSS URL to rule them all.

You may have figured this out by now since the boxee team added the MyFeeds app back in, you can use the feed from there to pull in a list of your subscribed feeds from boxee.tv
--- rss://www.boxee.tv/rssapi/userfeeds?sort=name ---

Is there a way to list recent episodes, rather than just the TV shows? How can I look through the feed options? Is there documentation of this online, or can you direct me to a spot to browse in the boxee files?

since the most recent boxee build, 'recently add' sort within the TV Shows Channel now sorts shows by the last time the show had an episode added. Previously, the last build used the sort value of original scan (i.e. when "Californication - S03E010" added to monitored folder and boxee added to database, the sort value would not update to show it had a recently added episode within 'My Shows' list, at least in my experience). Apologies if that was convulted. I expect that since then the feed
--- boxeedb://recent/?limit=10 ---
may now display the correct sort, per episode, but again this is only a guess. If you have figured out anything since your last post let me know. I'm only just now getting to play with the wonders of boxee again [media pc packed away until semester course were over].

Is there a way to add the 'boxee feeds' that you define for your account on the boxee website to the first column on the home screen?

I thought that was wat the 'boxee feeds' were for.

Updated thread, probably already resolved/discovered this, just didn't want to leave post(s) unanswered

And is there an easy way to change the "view" of the items like in the FEEDS section? Now I just put recently added in place of the feeds, but I would like to have them both.

Why not replace the-
middle column with your feeds,
left column as Recently Added, and
right column as Queue
Many different combos, I know that may not have exactly been what you were looking for but this weekend I am going to see about combining MY_RSS feed with featured or other direct combinations to generate a single rss (probably use yahoo pipes or something); which would solve your problem I believe, I'll keep you updated. If I am misunderstanding let me know, I'd be happy to work together to achieve your desired customization


thanks everyone for interest and I'll do my very best to help anyway I can, and remember all thanks goes to the "Boxee Team."

[generator85]

Thanks for the answer! Just read your post because the notification was marked as spam.

I'll try your solution this week.

[toomanyplugs]

This was quite helpful! I was stuck with the default boxee feed that wasn't updating (and I got tired of seeing the "HP computers are racist" at the top).

I found out how to add History to the panes and wanted to share:

history://all/?limit=10

where "all" can be:

all
video
audio
picture

This is probably not the perfect/right way to do this, but I thought that was a better use of my home screen real estate.

(I also added another label in the xml to display the tv episode's title as well as its season/episode numbers. I can go into more detail if desired)

[Sccrluk9]

I like the history tab. Ill have to work that into mine later tonight because like you im tired of the feed.

Well got the history working and am really liking it. Only question I have is where do I find the different labels? Ive been looking and have been unable to find with number relates to which label name.

Edit: If anyone is wondering the label for history is 54022

If you want the home.xml with the recently added and history but dont want to find and change the code yourself here is what I have based off brokentrees original code posted in the first post.

Also to the above about wanting "Recently Added" in all caps like the rest of the text. Instead of editing the string just change the string used in home.xml to 53506. This string value is "RECENTLY ADDED". That way instead of changing something so theres dups just use what Boxee already has

[brokentrees]

Only question I have is where do I find the different labels?

Unsure if you found it or not, but just in case. The different feed label ids are listed in strings.xml located at

Win XP C:\Program Files\Boxee\language\English
Win 7 C:\Program Files (x86)\Boxee\language\English


---also main post has been updated---

[darcilicious]

Excellent work -- thanks for the updates!

[Zero7]

I like the history tab.

Thanks Sccrluk9 and Brokentrees. Now I like the Homescreen, it's the way I would like to have it.