Overview

For various scenarios it might be useful to display notifications as popup or progress information without actually disturbing the user.

Feature

The notifications could be:

• Event notification
• Progress notifications

The notification might fade out after a customizable timeout.

The notification might contain a hide or dismiss button.

Plugins should be able to attach custom actions to these notifications.

Event notification

• event notifications about something that has been
  • started
  • stopped
  • finished
  • added
  • removed
  • ...

Examples

• newly added media
  • series, videos, pictures, music, ....
  • if multiple of a kind at once > consolidate them
    • show "series XY" has added, instead of showing a notification for each episode
• new updates are available
  • System > Windows
  • MediaPortal 2 > Application
  • MediaPortal 2 > Extensions
• new channels are available
  • TV
  • Radio
• ....

Progress notification

• progress notification including a progress bar and a percentage of completed

Examples

• Update of OnlineVideo sites
• Update of Webradio stations
• Scanning for tv/radio channels
• Importing media shares
• Download of OnlineVideo videos
  • CustomActions:
    • Go to Queue
    • Pause
• Scanning for Wifi networks if scan is manually triggered

Related

• APIs for Plugin Devs