iLiad Feedbooks.com iLiad Downloader - Page 7

Blue · 01-20-2008, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadrien

Problem with the subscriptions on the sudoku should be fixed now.

That's right! Thanks!

jackbrown · 01-23-2008, 03:54 AM

I am able to download and read books successfully using this app. I downloaded Don Quixote; it ended up in the Iliad's internal 'Books' folder as a PDF, nicely formatted etc.

However, my 3 different newsfeeds (BBC news/BBC science/custom NYT hed&bbc hed), while reporting successful downloads, do not actually show up anywhere, either in the internal memory or on the SD card.

I am currently running Blue's last version off an SD card over a wireless connection, on a developer package Iliad. As I said, a book successfully downloaded.

Where is this 'mht' folder where the news feeds are supposedly ending up?

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 05:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackbrown

I am able to download and read books successfully using this app. I downloaded Don Quixote; it ended up in the Iliad's internal 'Books' folder as a PDF, nicely formatted etc.

However, my 3 different newsfeeds (BBC news/BBC science/custom NYT hed&bbc hed), while reporting successful downloads, do not actually show up anywhere, either in the internal memory or on the SD card.

I am currently running Blue's last version off an SD card over a wireless connection, on a developer package Iliad. As I said, a book successfully downloaded.

Where is this 'mht' folder where the news feeds are supposedly ending up?

It should be downloaded in your default folder for newspapers, I think that's "mnt/news/".

serge · 01-23-2008, 02:00 PM

I do not have any feeds displayed - probably because I have not subscribed to any.
I registered on the feedbooks site, and immediately logged on in the iNewsStand, which worked. I then tried to log on the site, but was asked to confirm my account. Each time I try to log in, I get an empty "Confirm your account on Feedbooks" message - there is nothing to click or paste. Hence I cannot subscribe to any feeds...

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by serge

I do not have any feeds displayed - probably because I have not subscribed to any.
I registered on the feedbooks site, and immediately logged on in the iNewsStand, which worked. I then tried to log on the site, but was asked to confirm my account. Each time I try to log in, I get an empty "Confirm your account on Feedbooks" message - there is nothing to click or paste. Hence I cannot subscribe to any feeds...

That's a problem with some webmails. Yahoo used to have it although it seems that they corrected this bug on their end. Don't know why exactly though, our e-mail are standard. Check the source of the message to get the link, or e-mail me and I'll manually confirm your account.

serge · 01-23-2008, 02:25 PM

Thanks!
It is a yahoo.co.uk email account. I clicked "Save Message Test" and the saved "invisible" attachment did contain the activation link. Weird...

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by serge

Thanks!
It is a yahoo.co.uk email account. I clicked "Save Message Test" and the saved "invisible" attachment did contain the activation link. Weird...

Just took a look at our recently registered users, and all yahoo.co.uk e-mails had this problem. People with @yahoo.com e-mails used to have it, but they all work perfectly now.

jackbrown · 01-23-2008, 03:18 PM

presumably it is mnt/news which opens when I click the news button; that folder is entirely empty (as it is when I navigate to it from the content lister). As I said above, a book came down, but no news feeds. I would have guessed it was the standard feedbooks cache problem, but i am after all trying to get the BBC which is one of FB's most popular items and presumably cached.

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackbrown

presumably it is mht/news which opens when I click the news button; that folder is entirely empty (as it is when I navigate to it from the content lister). As I said above, a book came down, but no news feeds. I would have guessed it was the standard feedbooks cache problem, but i am after all trying to get the BBC which is one of FB's most popular items and presumably cached.

Might be the case. Try with Slashdot, it's the best way to test things.

serge · 01-23-2008, 04:27 PM

I also encountered a problem with the BBC UK feed. But BBC full content and several others are working as expected.

Blue · 01-23-2008, 04:54 PM

I remember having problems with that feed as well. I tried it again and it seems that this one: http://www.feedbooks.com/feed/view/?...sworldfullfeed doesn't work. Like has been said before, you can see it in the list of feeds and when you select it and press 'sync !' the green light on your iliad does turn green for a bit but there is no new file downloaded.

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blue

I remember having problems with that feed as well. I tried it again and it seems that this one: http://www.feedbooks.com/feed/view/?...sworldfullfeed doesn't work. Like has been said before, you can see it in the list of feeds and when you select it and press 'sync !' the green light on your iliad does turn green for a bit but there is no new file downloaded.

I know why. Just tried it on the website and it worked perfectly. But there's a | in the name, which might be a problem with Linux. I'll have to escape a few characters from the file name.

Blue · 01-23-2008, 05:15 PM

And then they say Linux is better then Windows

ok... just tried to make a file with a | in windows and it doesn't work either.. hehe

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blue

And then they say Linux is better then Windows

ok... just tried to make a file with a | in windows and it doesn't work either.. hehe

| is a pipe, a special character that's very useful in a shell.

Hadrien · 01-23-2008, 05:29 PM

While we're working on speed and cache issues for the RSS, I think I'll remove image support. A lot more feeds/newspaper will work, and it'll be much faster to get the files.

This way, I'll also work on epub/Mobipocket output for this feature.

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01-23-2008, 03:54 AM	#92
jackbrown Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco USA/North Africa	I am able to download and read books successfully using this app. I downloaded Don Quixote; it ended up in the Iliad's internal 'Books' folder as a PDF, nicely formatted etc. However, my 3 different newsfeeds (BBC news/BBC science/custom NYT hed&bbc hed), while reporting successful downloads, do not actually show up anywhere, either in the internal memory or on the SD card. I am currently running Blue's last version off an SD card over a wireless connection, on a developer package Iliad. As I said, a book successfully downloaded. Where is this 'mht' folder where the news feeds are supposedly ending up?

01-23-2008, 02:00 PM	#94
serge Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 80 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: iRex iLiad	I do not have any feeds displayed - probably because I have not subscribed to any. I registered on the feedbooks site, and immediately logged on in the iNewsStand, which worked. I then tried to log on the site, but was asked to confirm my account. Each time I try to log in, I get an empty "Confirm your account on Feedbooks" message - there is nothing to click or paste. Hence I cannot subscribe to any feeds...

01-23-2008, 02:25 PM	#96
serge Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 80 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: iRex iLiad	Thanks! It is a yahoo.co.uk email account. I clicked "Save Message Test" and the saved "invisible" attachment did contain the activation link. Weird...

01-23-2008, 03:18 PM	#98
jackbrown Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Francisco USA/North Africa	presumably it is mnt/news which opens when I click the news button; that folder is entirely empty (as it is when I navigate to it from the content lister). As I said above, a book came down, but no news feeds. I would have guessed it was the standard feedbooks cache problem, but i am after all trying to get the BBC which is one of FB's most popular items and presumably cached.

01-23-2008, 04:27 PM	#100
serge Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 80 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: iRex iLiad	I also encountered a problem with the BBC UK feed. But BBC full content and several others are working as expected.

01-23-2008, 04:54 PM	#101
Blue Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 63 Join Date: Apr 2007	I remember having problems with that feed as well. I tried it again and it seems that this one: http://www.feedbooks.com/feed/view/?...sworldfullfeed doesn't work. Like has been said before, you can see it in the list of feeds and when you select it and press 'sync !' the green light on your iliad does turn green for a bit but there is no new file downloaded.

01-23-2008, 05:15 PM	#103
Blue Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 63 Join Date: Apr 2007	And then they say Linux is better then Windows ok... just tried to make a file with a \| in windows and it doesn't work either.. hehe

01-23-2008, 05:29 PM	#105
Hadrien Feedbooks.com Co-Founder Posts: 2,263 Karma: 145123 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Paris, France Device: Sony PRS-t-1/350/300/500/505/600/700, Nexus S, iPad	While we're working on speed and cache issues for the RSS, I think I'll remove image support. A lot more feeds/newspaper will work, and it'll be much faster to get the files. This way, I'll also work on epub/Mobipocket output for this feature.

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