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TheGreenButton.tv Code of Conduct

Last post by makryger « Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:41 pm

by makryger » Thu Mar 07, 2013 3:41 pm

By using this website, you implicitly agree to follow this code of conduct. The moderators of this forum, at their discretion, may give you a warning, lock threads, delete posts, modify posts, or ban you from this website if you do not follow these rules. Repeated offenders, especially after...

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BADGES ARE HERE!

Last post by holidayboy « Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:20 pm
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by makryger » Thu Jun 30, 2011 3:20 am
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Hello folks, I've finally finished the last thing on my to-do list for this forum, and that is BADGES. I added the badges for a few people that I had access to their info from WEC, so you'll start to see some people with them right away. Always appreciate any feedback!

Unfortunately, the ranking...

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Badges are on the way guys - we're updating a few things behind the scenes in order to automate the 1yr / 2yrs / 5yrs badge upgrades.

Should all be sorted over the coming weekend....
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Tue Sep 17, 2019 5:20 pm
Contribute to the Wiki! Seriously!

Last post by Sharks « Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:39 pm
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by makryger » Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:37 am

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Do you use Media Center? Of course you do, you are on TGB.tv. That means you probably know a thing or two about media center as well. If you have the ability to describe something in media center, like Oh, I use My Movies, I think I could describe what the functions of the software are. or I just...

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I added how to setup Network tuners for InfiniTV PCIe6 on Windows 8.1. I'm also currently adding to the Remote Streaming section. : D

Also any update on some way to post WMC add-ons/theme files?

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Last post by Sharks
Mon Aug 17, 2015 4:39 pm
HTPC Specs in your Mini-Profile!

Last post by TeddyR « Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:34 am
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by makryger » Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:34 am

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Whats that you say? You want TGB.tv to be even MORE useful than before?

Now you can update your HTPC specs in your user profile, and they will automatically appear under your mini profile in all the topic views. Mine are already loaded in- to see them, click on the Monitor+ icon next to HTPC Specs...

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Suggestion: Increase the size/number of charecters of the Tuner listing in the form for the HTPC specs in the mini profile; I (and probably others with multiple tuners) are not able to list all the tuners on their WMC systems. Currently only have space for 2xHDHR3CC,2xHDHRUS,2xTBS5980 , even though...

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Last post by TeddyR
Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:34 am
Forum software upgrade

Last post by Space « Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:45 am
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by holidayboy » Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:34 am

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Hi folks,

just a quick heads up to say we'll be upgrading the forums to the latest version of phpBB within the next few days.

I plan to carry out the work one morning (UK time) this week, the forums will hopefully only be offline for a short time.

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Yes, every time the post is posted, it just seems like after it posts it either has a long delay or you get the SQL error.

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Last post by Space
Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:45 am
TGB.tv donations drive !

Last post by holidayboy « Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:19 am
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by holidayboy » Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:47 am

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Hi all,

Just a quick post to see if any of our members are willing / able to make a small donation to help cover our running costs?

I completely understand that times are hard for a lot of folks and many people are unable to offer any financial support.

Please don't feel pressured into donating...

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Thank you to the people who have recently donated, it's very much appreciated.

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Last post by holidayboy
Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:19 am
Site outage

Last post by IT Troll « Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:12 am
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by holidayboy » Tue Nov 14, 2023 12:21 pm

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Hi folks,

Apologies for the recent major outage!

We've moved to a new host and the DNS change has taken an age to settle down - hopefully it will be completely propagated within the next day or so.

I have a couple of changes to make to the server settings but want to wait until the DNS changes...

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Glad to hear the site move went OK.

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Last post by IT Troll
Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:12 am
Why Windows 11 not here ?

Last post by Scallica « Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:05 pm
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by Rickt1962 » Fri Aug 11, 2023 2:15 pm

Just wondering why a new forum ?

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Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:05 pm
CERT errors

Last post by holidayboy « Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:06 am
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by stuartm » Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:26 am

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Getting errors in chrome when accessing many/most pages on the forum

This server could not prove that it is www.thegreenbutton.tv; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection.

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The certs have now renewed successfully. You might need to close your browser or delete cookies etc...

I've asked our hosting provider to tell me exactly why autossl didn't take care of the renewal.

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Last post by holidayboy
Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:06 am
BEST SNOW & HOLIDAY GRAPHICS ON WEB

Last post by ozzy84 « Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:16 pm

by ozzy84 » Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:16 pm

Every year about this time I look forward to seeing it Snow & break some holiday lights.

Transplant stuck in the South, never get to see Snow before say Jan - Feb (if any).

I also like how the Snow changes direction based on your mouse movement!

Bring on the SNOW :D

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Last post by ozzy84
Wed Oct 26, 2022 5:16 pm
Christmas 2021 - should we have the snow effect available?

Last post by holidayboy « Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:43 pm
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by holidayboy » Tue Nov 30, 2021 8:27 pm

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The snow effect can always be turned off on a per user basis in the User Control Panel if desired.....

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That was my first thought - the plugin isn't written that way unfortunately!

The plugin can either be on or off globally and will be turned on by default for all users when enabled - unless they turned off the snow option in the UCP last year, in which case the setting should hopefully be...

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Last post by holidayboy
Wed Dec 01, 2021 1:43 pm
Problems with the EPG forum?

Last post by holidayboy « Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:21 pm
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by IT Troll » Fri Oct 01, 2021 5:48 am

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I’m experiencing intermittent load problems in the EPG forums. Sometimes they open up fine but more often I get a server not responding. I think this might be the largest forum in terms of posts.

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Back at home and all appears to be working normally again. Must have been some weird configuration issue somewhere in the interweb.
Perhaps whatever it was also broke Facebook. The Facebook outage passed me by without me (and many others I'm sure) even noticing

Glad you're able to get your tgb...

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Last post by holidayboy
Thu Oct 07, 2021 7:21 pm
Wiki Broken?

Last post by IT Troll « Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:25 pm
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by IT Troll » Sat Mar 20, 2021 5:18 pm

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I get an error when trying to access.

/wiki/ MWException from line 4014 of /home/thegreenbutton/public_html/wiki/includes/user/User.php: CAS update failed on user_touched. The version of the user to be saved is older than the current version.

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#0...

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Is it possible to try logging in on another device? Or did you already try that?

Yes tried both my PC and iPad. Also tried private mode with clean cookies. I guess it is something to do with my account The version of the user to be saved is older than the current version.

Don't worry about it...

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Sat Mar 20, 2021 7:25 pm
RSS Now Active!

Last post by jonwz « Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:34 pm
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by makryger » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:55 pm

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If you look at the top right side of the forum, you should see Smartfeed that will allow you create a customized RSS feed for your preferred reader.

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There is also a setting in Smartfeed to Reset my last visit date on news feed access

That worked - THANKS!

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Last post by jonwz
Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:34 pm
Festive Snow!

Last post by Space « Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:57 pm
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by holidayboy » Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:34 pm

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Hi all,

We've just turned on the festive TGB banner and snow effect - yep, it's that time of year already!

We did have a few complaints last year so we're trying a new add-in this year - if you find that your browser / PC is struggling with the snow effect then it can be disabled in the User...

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First time I smashed them it made no sound for some reason. The next time I accidentally did it, it scared the Christmas lights out of me.

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Last post by Space
Wed Dec 02, 2020 6:57 pm
TGB.tv Donations

Last post by holidayboy « Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:29 pm
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by holidayboy » Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:20 am

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Hi folks, just a quick shameless post to say that we now have a donations facility for anybody who would like to help cover ongoing costs here at TheGreenButton.

The website now has a donate link on the menu bar when you're logged in, the url is www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/app.php/donate (sorry,...

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Hi folks,

I just wanted to say a quick thank you for the recent donations.

It's very much appreciated - especially in these difficult times.

Stay safe everybody

Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

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Tue Nov 10, 2020 6:29 pm
WMC Add-in Depository not able to logon

Last post by holidayboy « Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:12 am
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by DavidinCT » Wed Apr 29, 2020 3:14 pm

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Hey Guys,

I popped over to the WMC Add-in Depository today because Zap2XML's website is down now, so I wanted upload it so we had a copy for everyone. It's not per-say a WMC app but, it gets data for WMC so it could be a needed thing for WMC guide data.

When I went into the WMC Add-in...

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Sorry for the delay in replying!

I've finished a few tweaks to the wiki setup - you should be able to upload files directly from the wiki page editing toolbar now.

wiki_file_uploads.png

Drag and drop is possible, or you can select files using the new round upload icon to the left of advanced...

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Last post by holidayboy
Tue Aug 25, 2020 6:12 am
SQL Error

Last post by holidayboy « Sun Jul 12, 2020 3:36 pm
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by StinkyImp » Sun Jul 12, 2020 3:32 pm

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I've been getting the following error about once a week over the past few months. Sometimes I can refresh (a few times) and access the site. There have been a few times where I gave up and had to try the next day.

It's happened enough times that I thought I'd go ahead and report it.

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Thanks for the report.

I saw a similar error a few weeks ago during the automatic database backup tasks.

I'll double check logs and investigate.

Sent from my SM-G965F using Tapatalk

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Last post by holidayboy
Sun Jul 12, 2020 3:36 pm
Not remembering login?

Last post by adam1991 « Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:41 pm
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by adam1991 » Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:33 pm

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Suddenly I have to log in every time I visit. Something's not remembering my login. This started a couple of days ago or so.

I cleared all my cookies for thegreenbutton.tv, but that changed nothing.

Firefox 74.0/Mac. I couldn't tell you when I installed this version or if it's related to this...

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yep, fixed here--and without me having to do anything, even log back in.

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Last post by adam1991
Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:41 pm
AT&T (att.net) - blocking tgb.tv automated emails

Last post by holidayboy « Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:34 am
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by holidayboy » Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:47 am

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Hi all,

I thought I'd post just to say that AT&T seem to be blocking the emails being sent out by the forum software at the moment.

I've emailed them asking to be unblocked.

If you've tried to sign up for an account recently and have not received the automated email then please email me directly...

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We've seen a high number of errors from our email server over the last 48 hours due to AT&T blocking emails.

This means that anybody trying to sign up for a new account will not receive their activation email.

Please email me as per the post above (please include your chosen username!) and I'll...

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Last post by holidayboy
Sun Jan 05, 2020 8:34 am
Please STOP the snowflakes! They are annoyingly distracting.

Last post by n4mwd « Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:50 am
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by GreenButton_for_MJ » Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:28 am

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Please STOP the snowflakes! They are annoyingly distracting.

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The snow has melted. My CPU thanks you.

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Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:50 am
Why does TGB run my cpu at 100%

Last post by n4mwd « Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:00 am
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by n4mwd » Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:16 pm

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I can barely do anything. Going to other pages drops the cpu usage to near zero. What is going on? Its sustaining at 100% for several minutes now.

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An i-anything is going to have more horsepower than a celeron. I ran a few tests on the main page with no login.
My XP laptop with a single core celeron is 100%.
My 12 core AMD runs it at 8%. I think its 8 cpu cores and 4 gpu cores.
My 4 core Atom runs it at 30%. This is what powers WMC. It has a...

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Last post by n4mwd
Thu Jan 02, 2020 1:00 am
Media Center Add-ins Section

Last post by DavidinCT « Thu Oct 10, 2019 2:33 pm
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by holidayboy » Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:37 am
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Hi folks.

So if we were to add a new section aimed at creating a file store for Media Center add-ins etc, in what sort of format would you guys and gals prefer to have it?

1. A new forum section where add ins can simply be uploaded as attachments?

2. An ftp site?

3. Other ideas - such as.....?...

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How's this going ? Are you getting a lot of apps uploaded, and what are you doing with them ? Are you looking for anything special ?

If you had a list of things you had, I would get an idea what you don't have so I am not uploading a bunch of dups...
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Last post by DavidinCT
Thu Oct 10, 2019 2:33 pm
Badges

Last post by holidayboy « Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:44 am

by holidayboy » Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:44 am

Hi all,

We've just updated the badge system in order to allow auto updating of 1yr / 2yrs / 5+yrs membership status.

Please post here if you believe you are missing a badge of any sort.

Thanks folks.

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Last post by holidayboy
Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:44 am
Site outage & forum software upgrade!

Last post by holidayboy « Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:36 am
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by holidayboy » Thu Aug 30, 2018 1:17 pm

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Hi folks,

Apologies for the downtime.

We've been looking at upgrading our forum software and due to our hosts (or rather me not reading the small print!), our database fell over while a backup tried to run.

I've quickly got us up and running on the new forum software and will continue to update...

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Hi folks,

We'll be adding a few features to the site over the coming weeks / months...

The first will hopefully be an update to the notification emails feature that will include post text and PM text in the emails sent, rather than just links to take you to the thread / message - like we had with...

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Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:36 am
Wiki unavailable

Last post by holidayboy « Sat Sep 01, 2018 4:12 pm
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by holidayboy » Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:15 pm

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Hi folks,

Due to the impromptu forum upgrade earlier today, the wiki is currently out of action, it's next on the to-do list.

Apologies, the forum upgrade has meant that database tables linking the wiki user credentials to the forums are no longer available.

No information stored in the wiki has...

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The wiki is now back up and running

If you log into the forums then you also get logged into the wiki automatically.

The login button on the wiki will take you to the forum login page, then return you to the wiki once you're logged in.

Please post here if you see any unexpected behaviour with...

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Sat Sep 01, 2018 4:12 pm

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