[E² Plugin] AJPanel

[ocean777]

Ajpanel_v10.0.0

[Hannibal_Lecter]

v10.1.0 .. 2024-10-14

- Added the option "Export ALL to M3U File ..." to IPTV tables to save channles to M3U file (including PIcon URLs).

- Added a new option to Bouquet Editor to "Export Selected Bouquets to M3U File".

- Added options to add a font to the system (without changing system fonts).

.. Usage Example: to add Arabic font if missing from Images/Skins.

.. The new options in "Color/Font" (Blue Button in Main page):

... 1- "Add Extra Font to System" : Adds a font to the system (no restart requierd).

... 2- "Replace Extra Font" : Replaces the added font with another one (no restart requierd).

... 3- "Remove Extra Font" : Removes the the added font (requires GUI Restart).

... Note: The panel does not provide font files (it uses the fonts in /usr/share/fonts).



- Added a yellow icon to Player Bar to highlight movies with subtitle tracks.

- Added options to download M3U files from servers (with different formats).

- Added an option to download XML-TV (EPG) from from servers.

- Added options to download server resources to browse the server locally.

.. Use the new option "Local Servers & M3U Cache" to access Local Cached Servers.

- Improved "M3U/M3U8 File Browser" to be cached for much faster browsing.

- Improved File Manager to play M3U/M3U8 files.

- Improved the option "IPTV Server Browser (from Playlists)" to read URL/Username/Passwrod from 3 separated lines.

- Added option to Playlist Categories window menu to sort by "Server Default Sorting".

- Replaced "Check & Filter" (Blue Button) in Portal table with two options:

.. "Filter Responsive Servers" (same as previous "Check & Filter").

.. "Find Servers with Playlist Access" (to create Playlist URLs from Portal servers).

- Improved "All to Playlist" in "IPTV Server Browser (from M3U/M3U8 Subscription File)".

.. This option creates a file with Playlist URLs from all the listed M3U.

.. Now runs with a progress bar with the ability to stop at any point.

- Improved Movies Browser:

.. The Player can zap from the Movies Browser now.

.. The option "Change Poster (locate manually) ..." will now open File Manager to (to preview the posters).

.. When the Movies Browser starts, it will move the cursor to the current playing movie.

- Improved frozen-channel auto-refresh.

.. Improved to refresh all types of frozen IPTV Channels (Live/VOD/Series).

.. Fixed the case where System Info-Bar is shown during the refresh process.

- Improved media metadata for portal channels (in INFO page).

- Improved "M3U/M3U8 File Browser".

.. Handles files with satellite channels.

.. Prevents replaying chan if already playing (when clicking OK).


- Improved Player Bar to stop the playing service with Long-Power and Long-Stop buttons.

- Fixed "General Guide" option (show no info).

- Fixed Portal server handling of some server types (which were giving errors).

- Fixed some issues with Movies Resume for slow IPTV servers and Ref. Type 4097 (servicemp3).

- Fixed DreamOS issues:

.. Fixed DreamOS Hotkeys detection by the panel to launch the Player Bar.

.. Fixed Screenshot to use Long-PVR to take scfreenshots (test on Dream-Two / Gemini-4.2).

.. Fixed changing Subtitle font size.

.. Fixed Plugins options which were not working on DreamOS.

... "Download/Install Packages (from image feeds)"

... "Remove Packages (show all)"

... "Remove Packages (Plugins/SoftCams/Skins)"

... "Upgradable Packages"

... "Active Feeds"

.. Fixed DreamOS freezing when AJPanel displays a picture on some screens.

.. Fixed DreamOS freezing when using Bouquet Importer.

.. Fixed a crash on DreamOS when clicking "Audio" Button in Player bar.

- Fixed VTi issues:

.. Fixed changing Subtitle font size.

.. Fixed Player Hotkeys (were not working).

.. Menus wrap-around scrolling.

.. Fixed a crash in Channel Binding/Chaining.

[Hannibal_Lecter]

v10.2.0 .. 2024-12-01

- Added Long-PVR (Long-Playlist) key to take a screenshot.
- Added "Delete Reader" (Red Button) to the option "NCam/OSCam Readers" to delete readers.
- Added new options to "OSCam/NCam Status" (in Blue Button) to delete a reader and clean inactive and duplicate readers.
- Improved Download Manager resume process.
- Improved Filter in "Download/Install Packages (from image feeds)" to filter packages per feed.
- Improved Player Bar to forward/rewind while subtitle is running (without showing the bar).
- Improved Player-Bar Buttons.

.. Added PVR/Playlist button to show System Channel Selection.
.. OK-Button will show Channel List (if no active service).
.. Long-Stop and Long-Power buttons will stop current service and zap to the last used service (or show Channel List).

- Improved Stream Relay handling for images with Stream Relay Patch (to handle PIcons/Signal/Data/etc.).
- Fixed changing AJPanel font on DreamOS.
- Fixed "M3U/M3U8 File Browser" to handle unicode files.
- Fixed Playlist timeout problem (when reading categories for some servers).
- Fixed File Manager error when converting .mvi files to jpg/png.

.. Note: this option may not work on some images if the provided ffmpeg does not support mvi.

[Hannibal_Lecter]

update v 10.2.1
02.12.2024

Fix crash on DreamBox-920 with Merlin image

[Hannibal_Lecter]

AJPanel Enigma2 Tools by AMAJamry 10.2.2

- Improved File Manager to execute Python script files (py/pyo/pyc) in the Terminal.
.. Note: Currently does not interact with input() function.
- Improved Subtitle-Search method.
- Improved IPTV PIcons/Posters Download for some images.

[Hannibal_Lecter]

update v 10.3.0

01.01.2025


- Added the option "Merge All Files" (Blue Button) to Playlist file browser (to merge the listed files into one file for easier processing).

- Improved Playlist option "Check & Filter" to add the Expiry Date to the result table.



- General IPTV improvements:

.. Improved reading Playlist lines from files to accept user custom remarks (separated by "#").

.. Improved reading Playlist and Portal lines from files to skip duplicate servers data.

.. Improved IPTV Channel Name Prefix removal.

.. Improved servers filter options for Portal & Playlist to refresh the files list to show the new file.

.. Fixed handling some Portal servers that show the error "Forbidden".

.. Fixed a type of Portal Server which was not providing categories.

.. Fixed Playlist IPTV Servers timeout error when reading VOD categories from some servers.

- Improved INFO page to translate Current and Next events.

- Added "Save" option (Yellow Button) to the "Play with ..." menu (to save current player as default player).

- Improved Terminal.

.. Improved to handle Progress-Bars and color-codes from Shell and Python scripts.

.. Added "Delete File" (Yellow Button) to the Terminal option "Change Custom Commands File".

- Improved reading packages/feed on VTi.

- Improved Local Servers handling:

.. Added "Find" (Yellow Button) option to search in Live/VOD/Series.

.. Improved adding channels to bouquets (to include Server host name in bouquet name).

.. Improved M3U files handling (when opened from File Manager or M3U/M3U8 File Browser).

- Improved File Manager:

.. Add shortcut key Back/Recall to move to parent directory.

.. Add shortcut key FAV to save current/selected directory as the startup directory.

.. Add option "Keys (Shortcuts)" too File Manager "More Options" menu.

- Fixed Subtitle option "Set Maximum Delay" to apply changes immediately (no need to exit then reopen then subtitle).

- Fixed a crash in the option "Tuners Info" (in "Dev. Info" page).

- Fixed a crash when opening "XML-TV Tools" with the presence of bad xmltv file format.

[Hannibal_Lecter]

Ajpanel_v10.5.0

- Added "Rename" (Blue Button) to rename the local servers in "Local Servers & M3U Cache" page.

- Improved Subtitle Line/Delay Changer (which opens with Left & Right keys):
.. Will not change the delay until the arrows are used.
.. Will not timeout and can be closed with Exit or OK.
.. Added Up/Down Buttons to change the delay.
.. Added "Reset" (Yellow Button) to reset the delay.
.. Shows auto-updated line number and line time.

- Can now download from IPTV Catchup programs.

- Improved searching in Playlist option "Find in Selected" (Blue Button) for slow servers.

- Improved Player-Bar:
.. If hidden, Cancel/Exit Button will show it back (instead of closing the bar).
.. Subtitle indicator will show different icons for embedded subtitles, file-subtitles or both.
.. The subtitle indicator works with DVB channels now.
.. Added new Audio-Track icon if the current channel has more than one Audio-Track.

- Improved File Manager process and error handling for the options "Create New File" and "Create New Directory".

- Improved File Manager option "Create New Directory" to offer a name that matches the selected file (useful for managing movies paths).

- Improved Settings to automatically separate saved files to separate paths in the backup directory.
.. Removed "Created Package Files (IPK/DEB/etc.) + Package Projects"
.. Removed "Downloaded Packages (from feeds)"
.. Removed "Exported Tables"
.. Removed "Exported PIcons/Screenshots/Pictures"

- Improved exiting from "Find" and "Channels Tools" to overcome hanging (reported on a specific skin).

- Fixed XML-TV page reaction (when there is no Channel-Reference File).

- Fixed Subtitle where it asks to save changes when exiting a newly started subtitle.

Thx @ biko_73

[Hannibal_Lecter]

AJPanel 10.5.1
General fixes and improvements

Thx @biko_73

[Hannibal_Lecter]

update v 10.6.0
11.02.2025

- Added a second menu to the Player-Bar for quick access to more options.
.. "Stop Current Service"
.. "Stop Current Service & Close AJPanel"
.. "Play Last Stopped Channel"
.. "Channel Selection"
.. "Channels Browser"
.. "Zap History"
.. "Close AJPanel"

- Improved launching "Channel Selection" to point to the current channel.

- Improved Channels Browser:
.. Added INFO Button to show channel info.
.. Zapping will add the newly played service to the Zap History.

.. Rearranged the buttons and their usage (OK/Red/Green/Blue Buttons).

- Improved Channels Binder:
.. Added the options "Next Chained Service" and "Previous Chained Service" Channels Binder to locate chained channels.
.. Will allow binding a source channel to multiple target channels.
.. Title will show current service mode (TV/Radio).

- Fixed "Share Reference with DVB Channels (from xml file)" to prevent changing duplicate reference in bouquet file.

- Fixed the problem of skipping pyo/pyc files when creating ipk/deb packages.

[Hannibal_Lecter]

AJPanel v10.7.1

- Fixed a crash on OpenDriod in the new option "Set Local Media PIcons (ALL Bouquets)".