Mods, Staff, Members,

Do you think it would be helpful to have a subforum called Local Channel Settings or something similar? It would contain one thread for each geographic area so that we could discuss the latest problems and changes to the channel lineups relevant to our own local areas.

For...

I'm getting this error message every time there are new posts and I visit the unread posts entry point:

Refreshing the page clears it up. I'm using the latest Firefox and not seeing the problem anywhere else.

Hack7MC link needs updated to:
Lets keep things accurate!

TheGreenButton.com is now as fast as most sites I visit. It used to be horrible. Pages would take minutes to load, if they loaded at all. I'm not sure what you did, but thanks!

Have noticed that I'm not getting email notices on subscribed topics... Don't actually seem to be receiving the mails by my server logs, not trapped in a spam folder far as I can see. Are others getting subscription notices?

Can we get an adjustment to the profanity checker

Hi there,

I used to use TGB then Windows Experts as a support forum for my (free) windows media centre script. Basically I'd put in the documentation that if people wanted to ask a question the best place was the forum and then with a link to that place.

Obviously Windows Experts is dead now so...

Not sure if it's me or you?

Hi folks.

We've had an issue with forum generated emails not being sent out - everything is back up and running now.

People registering new accounts may not have received emails, please get in touch at the address below if so and we'll re-send them.

admin(at)thegreenbutton(dot)tv

Sorry for the...

/Topic split from: SNR and Signal Level Protocol w/CC

I do recall this being talked about a bit before on this site so I'm glad we have the code now. Do we have a file upload section?

I have posted a topic/thread in the Windows 7 Media Center forum.

Somehow, it got posted once while I was in the middle of composing the post, and then again when I was done and actually submitted it. THe first posting was only a small part of the entire post. When this happened, I was totally...

Hi folks,

It looks like our forum software got choked up somehow around the start of this month - new user accounts have not been receiving activation emails.

We've corrected the problem (we hope!).

If you have recently tried to join us and have not received an email then please contact us:...

Hi folks.

We've had a few undelivered notification emails bounced back over the last week or so.

Please ensure that admin thegreenbutton tv is in your whitelist to ensure that all mail is delivered.

We'll do our best to contact each affected member individually, but I'm afraid we can't go...

I've been a member of tgb for a few years but I'm unable to access my old account. I don't remember the old mail address associated with the account, how can I go about sorting it out?

For those of you who's clocks went back one hour, for post times to be correct please set your Summer Time/DST is in effect: to No in your board preferences.

So... what's up? It was down for quite a while today, and seems sluggish now.

/topic renamed

What happened to the CETON section? the format suddenly changed, now I can't find the three specific CETON related forums. Thanks.

Dear members and guests.

Starting tomorrow morning ET (October 1st) some more changes will take hold to the structure of the site.-
Changes will include moving Tuners to primary positions for better clarity as well as splitting WMC Software into Windows 7 and Windows 8 sections.

The work will be...

Dear members and guests,

In the next few days some changes are going to be made to the current structure of the site.- The Ceton forums will be moved into their respective TGB.tv areas, together with the addition of a SiliconDust sub forum along side with all related posts moved to it. Other...

Hi folks, it's just come to light that we've had an issue with the forum software not being able to send out emails for the past few days.

This has affected notifications, as well as new user registration emails.

If you have recently registered but have not been able to activate your account then...

Hi all,

If you're noticing any strange oddities browsing our site, it's due to a Tapatalk server problem. They are looking into things.

Please vote, even if it's first impressions. It's great data.

Finding it zippy?
Lag?

Please let us know and we will try to address any problems.

Hello folks, I've received a report that Tapatalk seems to be acting very slowly under the new host, especially with posting. Is anyone else experiencing this? Can someone try to reproduce?

The user has the following details:
Tapatalk: latest version
OS: Android 4.2.2
Network: Verizon 4G

Sorry folks, here we go again.

We've got a support ticket open, we're waiting for some answers from our hosts.

We've disabled guest search functions as part of our ongoing investigation into site performance.

The search function is still available for logged in members.

When I click the link for the wiki (www.thegreenbutton.tv/wiki/) it takes me to a blank page.

I noticed that Ceton infiniTV support area is way the bottom for thegreenbutton form index. The regulars know where to go, but what about newbies?

I'd like to suggest we add a Ceton infiniTV Sticky at the of:

Board index ‹ Windows Media Center ‹ WMC TV Tuners

That redirects to:

Board index ‹...

I noticed that the timestamps on my posts here are off by an hour - it's currentky 1:57PM here, but the last message posted on the Unread messages index says it was posted at 2:43PM. I've verified that my Timezone is set properly in Preferences.

I't's not a big deal, and I can just change my...

Split from

ahem... comments should not be directed at an individual. If you disagree with someone, you don't have to make it a personal attack. Let's be respectful! :angel:

Hi there. Jack here. Where do I begin?

First, let me quote:
(from 5. If you intend to advertise a product or software...

Wow. We get off on some tangents, but this is ridiculous! A single topic has been split in to three or four separate topics! Can't you let us geeks reminisce for a while?

I visit pretty much every day using Chrome and all of a sudden I'm not staying logged in even though remember me is checked at login. Anyone else seeing this?

(And should we have a separate board for forum issues/questions so I don't have to post in lounge, or should I have done this another way?)

Hi folks,

our apologies for the recent speed issues on tgb.tv

This is the result of our hosting package having resource limits, once we hit certain levels, our account is limited for a set period of time.

We are actively talking with our host regarding this matter and will be looking at all...

We're back! :thumbup:

Sorry folks - our hosts had server issues, things may be slow for a while until stuff settles down.

Anyway, get back to the festivities you lot :)

Happy holidays!

The e-mails I've been receiving lately have a link to the forum... not to the exact thread/post contained in the e-mail. What happened?

I was a member of the original Green Button starting around 2004. I was active and really enjoyed the forum. When it moved to the Microsoft Home Expert site, I could never get my account to migrate, got frustrated and gave up. Now, I discovered this board. I'm just curious about the background on...

When I try to use the Advanced search feature of this website, I am unable to select the Ceton Companion forum so that I can search for others with a similar problem.

I tried selecting the Ceton Product Forums main heading, but it still didn't find what I was looking for... even though I know it...

This board is low-traffic enough that using View unread posts is feasible, but I can't find a Mark forums read button on its page, which negates a lot of the convenience. Am I missing something? The Tapatalk app does have it!

I carried out some maintenance on the Tapatalk plugin earlier, unfortunately you may now see an incorrect number of unread posts reported.

One workaround is to mark the forums as read in your Tapatalk app and start from scratch.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

*HTPC Specs configuration is located in User Control Panel / Profile.
To see a members specs, click on the monitor icon under their details (Not available on Tapatalk).

The new addition is handy for the soon to launch Ceton Echo, as well as v2 extenders such as the Xbox360, Linksys DMA, HP...

As regular readers will know, it is my custom to write a treatise in reply to any question to which I think that I can contribute an answer. Recently I have found that when a reply is bigger than the size of the reply box, the reply box ends up in some weird auto-scrolling loop that causes it to...

Tapatalk just updated on WP7, says TGB is no longer compatible. It says to notify the board administrator to update your software.

Forum Theme / Look

mak has been injecting into the SQL to clean up each post field. You should note a cleaner, meaner thread look now.

-We're working on some other subtle changes too.

There has been a lot of new additions to TGB.tv that have been going on behind the scenes, but I thought it would be a good time to make a small but useful addition that's a bit more apparent to the folks that use the forums every day.

Now, every post has an associated post number in the top left...

Just a quick post to say that the forums have been set up to work with Tapatalk.

It should make checking in and posting much easier for mobile users.

Hey Guys it good to see TGB back on the map, I don't understand what MS was trying to do.

How long have you guys been back, no one told me.

Hi all,

I've had multiple reports from a member regarding DNS errors when trying to visit TGB.tv.

If anybody sees any downtime or errors etc when trying to get your 7MC fix here then please post back here (once you manage to get through to us!), or PM me.

many thanks.

HB

Hi folks, we've gotten some feedback about TGB.tv recently, so I thought I'd just update you on whats been changed.
1) We are now using reCaptcha instead of the old system, which was apparently difficult to read. reCaptcha isn't as fool-proof against spambots, but hopefully it will be effective in...

Hi Guys,
What am I doing wrong.
I want to search for best remote control in the hardware section to try and get the members thoughts on remotes for WMC.
When I search I get an error saying Remote and Control are too common to search for, so I only get results for Best .
Any tips or recommendations...

If I may suggest and certainly this is up for discussion from all, that members of both communities do not post the same question/comment on both forums.
By all means link between them as this will give all members the opportunity to decide where to post what. It also gives us the added benefit of...

I would say that when a person posts an item in a forum the firsty thing that comes to mind is how much visibility will the post get. The thinking is that the more visibility, the better the changes of getting an accurate and high quality answer (or solution) is. This thinking may be incorrect as...

Hi all.

We're continuing to make gradual changes to the forum software and we now have a google search facility.

Clicking on Advanced search below the search box will now give a google search option as well as the standard search facilities.

More tweaks to follow.....

I've created an entry in the WMC Wiki on WAF. What do you think? Anything that you would like to be added? Changed? Either edit yourself, or put your comments here!

Hi everyone

Just thought I'd stop by and thank the creators of TGB.tv for making this site!

I didn't visit TGB much but when I did it was always fantastically useful and full of information, I couldn't believe it when I tried to go back to it a few minutes ago to find it gone.

Best wishes to...

Does anyone using Chrome (or other browser) get an error when trying to click on a post? I frequently get No data received. Error 324 (net:ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data. . Pic of the error attached.

error.JPG

Hi everyone.

What do people think about having some sort of front end to TGB?

We set up a quick page below, feedback is welcome...

(some links may not work as expected at the moment but most should be ok)

Hi guys. It looks like my most recent post was missed in the transfer to the new wiki. I'll go-ahead and recreate. May be worth a quick review to make sure other content wasnt missed, but I think you are safe.

Reference:

I'm curious what others think of the main page. I personally feel it will get a bit ,easy and suggest we agree on a standard for general page layout on the wiki.

For starters, here are some of my suggestions:

- Simplify the sections by removing sub sections and putting those as embedded sections...

Hi folks,

Already we have had a few spammers advertising things we don't want or need on this site (cheap gold anyone?!), so I would like to ask if you see such a post to report it (the red exclamation mark top right of the post).
That will help us keep an effective and prompt level of...

It's great to see people are already getting onboard and helping to build out the WIKI.

Hopefully given time, it will become THE place to go for answers to common Media Center questions, as well as a place to re-visit when we set up new systems and wonder how we got things just right the last time...

There are times when I forget to quote someone on a post and when doing so there is no delete icon on my previous post. I end up editing the old one with just a smiley face and creating a new post with the quote.

I had no idea this existed until today (and quite by accident as it was mentioned as an afterthought in some thread in the experts community, without a URL). I used to be quite active on the old TGB, but found it so challenging to use the MS version I simply stopped posting (and reading, for that...

Just looked in User Control Panel but couldn't see anything, how do you turn on email notifications for threads you have posted on ?

Cheers.

Should you remove the green circle windows logo from the top banner, so MS can't shut you down?

Makryger has been working hard for the good of the people;

We now have strike through working. A useful tool to strike a line through text.

In the full editor, highlight the text you want to strike and select the 'S' box, or manually start with and end the text with .

Hey all,

I didn't see anything in the User Control Panel for this and I'm wondering if there is a way (other than right-click --> Open in new tab) to have links from forum posts open in a new tab automatically?

-Wolf sends

28 new members today, that's not bad going for one day, we just need to have that many join every single day for the next several months lol.

Welcome to all the new members :D

As the title says I don't see options for this in the user control panel ?

Thanks

Peeps,

As we've had no movement in both the Vista and XP Media Center Topics, what would you like done to them? Keep them for sh*ts and giggles? Perhaps someone will ask a genuine question? Who knows. Looking for the general consensus. Poll closing a week today, Monday 27th.

TIA.

Hi, and thanks for getting this board up and running.. the new M$ board is so f*'in lame i have to pinch myself every time I see it to make sure I'm awake.

anyways....

shouldn't you guys add some subcategories to the 7MC Software section? I mean like music photos recorded/live tv

I mean I have...

Error if you change My board style under User Control Panel-> Board Preferences to Subsilver2 .

Subsilver2 Errors:

General Error
template->_tpl_load_file(): File ./styles/subsilver2/template/overall_header.html does not exist or is empty

Fatal error: template->_tpl_load_file(): File...

Anyway for a user to increase the default number of posts shown per page? I hate having to click the next page after reading 10 posts.

I see all the other media center forums are listed at the bottom for convenience.

Maybe add AVSFORUM as well?

Home Theater Computers section:

Nice. While I was a fan of the MS migration at TGB for awhile, it really lacked the feeling of community we had at TGB. I once again feel like I am amongst friends. :D

Without wanting to overwork makryger (who has done an unbelievable job in setting this site up)......

Does anybody have any requests for forums?

Would a mobile devices forum be good maybe?

How about a Media Player forum?

Get your thinking caps on, nothing too out there - we don't want a page...

TGB.tv has a Favicon now! IE9 never played well with them, so it may not work there (unless you add to favorites), but it will work great in chrome and firefox.

Starting to feel like home yet?

I'd like to throw some cash in a pot if there is one. Admins can decide what to do with it to cover any hosting and effort.

Paypal preferred. Let me know.

On the right is counter intuitive to other forums and sites. At first I thought it was missing. Any way to rearrange a bit? Not a high importance item obviously.

Rob, just wondering why most of the members are bold green or bold red but mine is a normal blue?

Ta, Rich

Just wondering if there is a way to have the option for each user to disable receiving an email for every new post to a topic they are subscribed to? EG avforums only send out one email per topic until you re-visit the site. This obviously saves bandwidth and reources on the server and stops...

This well done message that appears after posting a message. Any way to disable it? This is only my fourth post or something and it's already annoying me.

Are custom avatars part of a future plan?

Ta