Feature #3351
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ideas for better usability and easy setup
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Description
!Probably include it at Extjs rewrite (4.4?) to avoid double work!
Bring back the usability to Tvh.
As the features count is rising and rising (tx) the usability getting worse and worse - of course Tvh was never in a good shape in this department.
It is a bit like vim vs nano - vim is is awesome but why the heck did I have to learn a program to change a single line.
I'm doing a bit support for Tvh since a while and getting always the same problems.
1. the regular user have near to 0 chance to get it working because the necessary steps are "nowhere" described - without an tutorial nearly impossible
2. the setup order is not intuitive
3. the most people are simple overwhelmed by the options (look at channels-old.png ...) - too much "useless" (for >95%) stuff is displayed
Now is the question how we could fix that without to sacrifice a lot of settings and features.
1. We need some kind of setup wizard (I don't know how easy this could be implemented, because it has to be working with every kind of setup)
just name some ideas
- some kind of window or frame what tells you what you have to click or that you could only click to the next logical window (this way the existing windows/tabs could be reused)- a "slideshow" at the first use - to get a basic idea how it works at all (shows pictures of the setup procedure of a basic setup - maybe you could choose if you use iptv, dvb-t ...)- a YT video that shows a basic setup - displayed at "first" login and with an button at a eye catching spot- a real setup where you get asked for adapters to use and so on in a typical setup view - only basic setup - probably the most problematic way- a better "work flow" see 2. (to avoid the use of a tutorial)2. If I had never used Tvh, I would do these steps like I done it at every receiver & software I used
1. Tab 1-1: choose/activate tuners
2. Tab 1-2: setup the sat/network...
3. Tab 1-3: scan
4. Tab 1-4: sort channels
current situation (my questions in (...) ):
1. Tab 3-3-2: setup the sat/network... (fairly easy if I know to do this first - if not apt-get remove tvheadend)
2. Tab 3-3-1: choose/activate tuners (wtf I had to conf the positions ? for what? - why are there no networks ?)
3. Tab 3-3-2: scan (did it scan, what happens, I don't see anything, is it finished?)
4. Tab 3-3-4: map muxes (pls what? I have no idea, what is a mux? services ?)
5. Tab 3-4-1: sort channels (difficult due to the giant list with useless informations)
solutions:
for 1: call this window if you activate the tuners
for 2: change the window layout to include these setting at a higher level and let it complain if there is no network chosen
for 3: a proper feedback (not only at status) if a scan is running and how much is finished
for 4: no idea how to fix it properly - maybe do the map-mux directly after scan (include the map window at scan)
for 5: a channel sort window - a special window only designed to sort channels quick and easy
3. pretty simple idea, hide what isn't needed for basic setup
add a hide tag to each column-button-setting which is not necessary and include a "button" to make them visible at press/switching - without reloading the site (also at config a "show advanced settings at default")
some examples are at the pictures to show the main benefits without loosing the basic functionality
channel window LOL !
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