Hello all,
I was very excited to see that StreamFab added a scheduling feature in version 5.0.2.8. As a lifetime PlayOn user that was burned by recent updates there, I'd love to evaluate this and I have a few questions for others that might be using this that has implications for how StreamFab is going to integrate with this feature. To me, this feature was the only functional gap between StreamFab and PlayOn.
1) When in trial mode will StreamFab attempt to download new scheduled shows if you still are within quota? The popup implies no, but it allowed me to create the schedule anyway. I'll find out in a few days I guess.
2) I'm really curious here what others' experience here is around the software being more or less hands-off and automatic. I've had to enter in credentials repeatedly in Audials and StreamFab, especially after taking new updates, and that seems to run counter to the goal here and could be one of the reasons why PlayOn requires you to separately configure credentials per source/channel. Does anyone here feel confident walking away from your PC for a week?
3) Related to 2), PlayOn takes updates automatically, and while there's a startup application configured for StreamFab ("StreamUpdate.exe") so far I think it doesn't do anything but notify, and even then not very quickly. Especially for me at least as I keep my PC on 24/7.
For anyone interested, it appears that the approach here is that a portion StreamFab doesn't run as a separate background service like PlayOn, but rather creates a scheduled task to run StreamFab with the "TaskScheduler" parameter. Not sure yet how it distinguishes between each show that way and whether it's something that can be micromanaged through automation yet.
Thanks for any insights anyone can provide!
I was very excited to see that StreamFab added a scheduling feature in version 5.0.2.8. As a lifetime PlayOn user that was burned by recent updates there, I'd love to evaluate this and I have a few questions for others that might be using this that has implications for how StreamFab is going to integrate with this feature. To me, this feature was the only functional gap between StreamFab and PlayOn.
1) When in trial mode will StreamFab attempt to download new scheduled shows if you still are within quota? The popup implies no, but it allowed me to create the schedule anyway. I'll find out in a few days I guess.
2) I'm really curious here what others' experience here is around the software being more or less hands-off and automatic. I've had to enter in credentials repeatedly in Audials and StreamFab, especially after taking new updates, and that seems to run counter to the goal here and could be one of the reasons why PlayOn requires you to separately configure credentials per source/channel. Does anyone here feel confident walking away from your PC for a week?
3) Related to 2), PlayOn takes updates automatically, and while there's a startup application configured for StreamFab ("StreamUpdate.exe") so far I think it doesn't do anything but notify, and even then not very quickly. Especially for me at least as I keep my PC on 24/7.
For anyone interested, it appears that the approach here is that a portion StreamFab doesn't run as a separate background service like PlayOn, but rather creates a scheduled task to run StreamFab with the "TaskScheduler" parameter. Not sure yet how it distinguishes between each show that way and whether it's something that can be micromanaged through automation yet.
Thanks for any insights anyone can provide!
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