WebGuide is back from the dead to natively support MediaCenter 2005 . 

View WebGuide 3 in action in this video!    

What is WebGuide?
MCE WebGuide™ was created for Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition users to provide remote Internet access to scheduling and the management of recorded programs on the Media Center Edition (MCE) PC.

MCE WebGuide features:

Allows you to schedule recordings of shows anytime and anywhere from a web browser.

Installs quickly and runs with the familiar easy-to-use MCE interface.

Accesses your own MCE PC which means live scheduling without delays.

Provides LAN-based access to recorded TV shows via networked PC's with playback in Windows Media Player.

An improved homepage that provides quick access to recent and upcoming recordings.

Improved guide listing that scrolls in-place, rather than scrolling the whole browser. This makes it very easy to get program info without having to scroll to the bottom of the page.

A much improved search interface. Similar to Media Center, you can now get your search results grouped by show rather than just sorted by date/time.

Ability to set manual recordings and adjust the settings of scheduled recordings.

Why WebGuide?
I tend to use Media Center as a video server and most often watch the recorded shows from another Windows XP machine. As such, I needed a tool that facilitated the scheduling and watching of recorded TV remotely. Thus WebGuide was born 3 years ago. I hope you find it as useful as I do.

Download WebGuide 3

 

Enjoy! 

Doug

awesome doug! Can't wait to play around with it!

Thanks for bringing it back from the dead!

How does this work with the "hacked" extra tuners? Does it work with these configurations?

Dunno.  How do the hacked extra tuners show up to MCE?  If they show up as any other tuner, it may work, but not sure.

Give it a shot and let me know.  I'd be happy to investigate further.

Thanks.

just downloaded the exe file and its saying that i need ISS 4.0 or higher...

 

i have everysingle windows update and i still cant install the program

 

any ideas where i can get this ISS from? quick seach on the M$ website doesnt relly help

Go to Add/Remove Windows Components. If youa re running MCE 2005 you will find it there.

IIS comes with Media Center (and all XP machines) as an optional OS component.

Go into Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs and click on "Add/Remove Windows Components" in the left column.  In the list that comes up should be "Internet Information Service (IIS)".

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Thanks.

I'm a little bit confused on installing Webguide. Does it get installed on all machines in a LAN or just the MCE PC? Do all PC's in the LAN have to have MCE?

I tried installing it on a PC in a LAN that doesn't have MCE just XP, and I get an error. I do have Framework 1.1 installed. The error I get is "Internet Information Server 4.0 or higher is required."

Any help you can give me?

Thanks.

 

the machine i want to install it on is XP home.. and its not in the remove list....

You just install it on your MCE machine, you access it like a webpage on the other machines.

OK, that would explain my trouble.

Thanks for helping me out.

 

so i was able to install & run it, but i'm not seeing the ability to play it remotely like i saw in ur video. Any ideas?

big thanks, I like this tool

First I like to explain that we living with 24 hours hope it will be in next version?

so my question is if this can create a problem ? Because when I tray to add manual recording this error arrive

System.InvalidOperationException: Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131509. at ehiProxy.IRecordingML.CreateManualRequest() at webguide3.recording_utils.createManualRecording(String title, String sub_title, String description, Int32 channel, DateTime starttime, Int32 duration, Int32 frequency, Int32 keep_up_to, Int32 keep_until, Int32 quality)

or can it be something else??

we should also like a pocket version

 

 

 

If you don't have a "delete" and "play" button, it means that it isn't finding your shared Recorded TV folder.

Look in your settings to make sure that Recorded TV is shared on the network and then double check the "web.config" file to see if it is looking for it correctly.  By default it would look for a share named \\MachineName\Recorded TV.  It then looks for a filename that matches the show you are trying to view.  If it finds it, then it will enable the play button.

Here's the code if you are interested:

If sched.FileName.StartsWith("\\") Then

     button_play.Visible = True

     button_delete.Visible = False

ElseIf IO.File.Exists("\\" & System.Net.Dns.GetHostName & "\" & ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("recorded_tv_share") & "\" & System.IO.Path.GetFileName(sched.FileName)) Then

     button_play.Visible = True

     button_delete.Visible = True

Else

     button_delete.Visible = False

     button_play.Visible = False

End If