SiingFront not working with latest ActiveX plugin

[oviano]

Not hugely critical right now as we can just uninstall the latest and let SlingFront download and install the old older one but this might catch up with us at some point if they ever make new firmware require a newer plugin, or indeed fix bugs in the plugin which we want to take advantage of.

Tom/anybody coding:

Aside from a couple of minor build errors, the main problem is it lists the Slingboxes but cannot connect.

I traced it through to the Player.CurrentBox.IsAvailable and .IsConfigured being zero at the point of connecting, with the new plugin installed.

Without it installed these values are 1 - indeed they are 1 right immediately upon entry to the program with the old plugin, but zero with the new plugin.

Maybe some kind of initializer needs calling, but I can't see what...

[dammad]

I'd like to see SlingFront support the latest ActiveX plugin too. From my testing, the latest plugins is more stable, better picture and lower latency on key presses. Any chance of someone looking into why this doesn't work?

[jillefsky]

I second the request. I use SlingFront everyday as it allows me to replicate a proper TV viewing experience, and it would be a pity if it would no longer support the latest SlingMedia plugins which seem to provide a better picture.

Please, would it be possible to have SlingFront support the latest plugin?

[oviano]

I had another look at this but I've still not managed to work it out.

This is likely because when it comes to VB and ActiveX I haven't really got a clue, in fact this is my first exposure

I'm still at the same point described above, with the most recent plugin. I can get it building and running up and retrieving the directory but it fails connecting because a bunch of stuff isn't set.

[jillefsky]

Thank you for your attempts on making it work, oviano. Really appreciate it.

Would it be possible for someone from spesoft to have a look into it?

Cheers