C-ApiSRO - Sirius/XM Satellite Radio for PocketPC (PPC)

[640k]

ok i just got bumped from my xm channel ("we're sorry, the xm channel.. blah blah blah"), so i turned on logging and reconnected to see if i can catch something...

it reconnected right away... but i'll leave the log going for a minute or two.

[eve6er69]

i just had to re download the program cause i got an error for the first time. but it works fine now

[labboypro]

Originally Posted by R-Capi

Send me a log file so I can see what's going on. I spawn an HTTP proxy on a different thread to intercept the Sirius stream. This provides me the ability to pull song information from the stream. Maybe the Treo has problems with threading.

Loggie attached. I x'd out my username. If it's a problem, PM me an email address and I can send you the unredacted log privately.

[R-Capi]

Originally Posted by 640k

XM. It happens everyday. I stream the connection all day at work.

This "freezing/locking up" happens under two situations:

1. Random internet hiccup. Suddenly the app will need to buffer and I'll lose music. If I try to exit, disconnect or anything within the app, it's unresponsive.

2. When I try to change a channel. If the channel takes a long time to change, the app is basically frozen. Telling you this is the best way I can describe what is happening. If you change the channel after listening for an extended period of time and it seems to hang while "tuning" in to the next channel, that is the same behavior I face when it randomly hangs.

3. Related or not, yesterday I noticed that while it was trying to reconnect or buffer or something, the EXIT option was grayed out on the Menu.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to start testing the XM stream in more detail. My concern is that this might be a Windows Media Player issue, because I simply fetch the URL from XM and pass it to the embedded player. Why it locks up my application is yet to be determined.

It could take a few days of testing before I can reproduce this with enough regularity to fix it.

[R-Capi]

Originally Posted by labboypro

Loggie attached. I x'd out my username. If it's a problem, PM me an email address and I can send you the unredacted log privately.

After going through your log file it seems the media player isn't connecting to my HTTP proxy. It's possible there is a port conflict with something else installed on your machine.

Attached is a DEBUG ONLY version of C-ApiSRO. This is just the executable, so please copy this file to your "Program Files\C-ApiSRO" folder. Make sure you make a backup of the original C-ApiSRO.exe file before doing the copy. I would like you to execute the DEBUG version of C-ApiSRO, with logging enabled, and let me know what happens. If it fails, send me the log again.

[640k]

Originally Posted by R-Capi

Thanks for the info. I'm going to start testing the XM stream in more detail. My concern is that this might be a Windows Media Player issue, because I simply fetch the URL from XM and pass it to the embedded player. Why it locks up my application is yet to be determined.

It could take a few days of testing before I can reproduce this with enough regularity to fix it.

I'm kind of agreeing with you on the WM part. It must be in the way that you're incorporating it with your code, instead of sending a URL to the player itself.

I've also noticed that with this version, it can take a good 30 seconds to respond to a command sometimes. I said before that I stream all day. By streaming all day, I risk draining my battery really fast, so I keep it on the USB charger (USB to PC, with USB connections disabled in Activesync). This keeps me charged and listening to music while at work.

When I'm ready to leave for the day, I do one of two things. I either hit stop and then disconnect the cable, or I disconnect the cable and then hit stop. Either way, it doesn't seem to respond to my command.

Yesterday, because it wasn't responding from me hitting stop, I hit the X to close the application (x-button feature, close applications on x). The player closed, but the music continued to play.

Whenever this happens, I tend to later see that the program is still running in the background, but no music is playing.

Now that I think about it, it's almost as if the media player part is "taking over" it's application presence in the task manager. Kind of like a shell or something. So when I hit x, it's only closing the media player.

[jdpohl]

Was using XstreamXM to launch Media Player. It worked a few times, then always returned a Media Player stream stating channel selected was unavailable. This is SIMPLY awesome .... great sound as well

[labboypro]

Originally Posted by R-Capi

Attached is a DEBUG ONLY version of C-ApiSRO. This is just the executable, so please copy this file to your "Program Files\C-ApiSRO" folder. Make sure you make a backup of the original C-ApiSRO.exe file before doing the copy. I would like you to execute the DEBUG version of C-ApiSRO, with logging enabled, and let me know what happens. If it fails, send me the log again.

Done, and attached. Thanks! The app wouldn't free up the log file for me to copy... even after killing the exe, so I had to hard reset the phone. I don't know what I'm looking at, but if you see cruft on the end of this log, keep the above in mind.

[sp0nge]

Program is awesome.. Great job!! Thank You

[jblade]

Thanks, love it

Once it gets stable I look forward to some GUI implementations