Iview Program

[Trinh Livingston]

PlantsiView was initiated by the Plant Biology Association of Graduate Students (PBAGS) at UIUC who recognized the challenges of interacting with the surrounding community to promote and communicate plant science to a general audience. Communication of science is a key element for our development as teacher-scholars, but these skills are often overlooked within formal graduate training programs. The Plants iView project closely aligns with the goals of the ASPB Education Foundation and meets the criteria outlined in the proposal call by: (1) creating an interactive learning environment for middle school students that will allow graduate students to communicate higher level concepts about plant science through small group leadership, (2) developing lesson plans and multimedia instructional supplements for small group activities in collaboration with middle school science teachers, and (3) creating a project webpage/blog for broader dissemination of inquiry-based lesson plans and materials.

From reading other reviews, I knew that some jump drives did not work well and, if formatted as FAT or FAT 32, would stop recording a TV program after a few minutes. All advice was to use an external HD, so I used my 500GB PATA HD in its USB 2.0 case. I had other TV shows and movies already on this drive and was using it with a Sony video player/Internet box. It was formatted NTFS (New Technology file System) and was recognized by the iView 3500 just fine. The iView was able to play all the already present TV shows and movies on this HD, but when I set seven timers and it tried to record these shows, all seven of them stopped recording after about 10 minutes.

While this was a hard drive, properly formatted, with an external power supply, I figured that the older technology was probably the cause, so I bought a 2TB USB 2.0/3.0 HD with no external power supply. I figured that if need be, I could use a 1 Amp USB wall supply and modify the USB cable to supply the needed power. The smaller HD was plugged into the iView and it spun right up so I could see the file structure. Since all other previously scheduled programs were still on the recording schedule, I left it to see what would happen between Wednesday evening and Thursday afternoon when I got home from work.

I wanted to find a way to get back to the recordings quickly. With the new remote control, this is easily done by pressing the blue PVR button and then waiting until the recorded programs menu comes up.

I found this rather strange, since the iView was able to play all the video files I had on the other HD and which I copied over to this new HD as well. So, even though the iView can play these files, they will not show up, here from the PVR menu.

The other thing I tried with the HD attached to my laptop was creating folders within the HBPVR default folder. I then moved shows into these folders and renamed them. It was much easier to do this using the laptop rather than the limited file renaming feature of the iView.

2. This is a single channel/function device. While it is recording, you cannot use this box to watch another TV station, so you may want to install a splitter so you can attach your antenna to the TV as well as to the iView. You may need a low noise signal amplifier to have enough signal level to allow splitting it to the two devices. It would be nice to have an antenna bypass output as well as the NTSC Channel 3 output when the box is playing/recording something so we at least would not need to buy a splitter.

4. Transparency should be removed from the INFO information as well. Again it only makes it more difficult to read and, on top of that, there is more than enough screen area to watch the program if wanted. Fixed with Firmware upgrade

Give it a try and let me know if it works for you. Oh, one piece of advice, the remote will probably not work with batteries as low in voltage as it used to with this modification. By diffusing the light it means any light getting into the iView receiver is weaker than it used to be since the same amount of light is now diffused into a larger area so that at least some of it will get into the iView receiver. With the light more directional, with just the LED lens, it was a stronger signal when we could get it into the correct location on the receiver, with it more diffused it is weaker but some of the light seems to get into the receiver no matter how badly the remote is aimed at the box. So with less light getting to the box the batteries will need to be in somewhat better condition to still produce enough light in this diffused condition to allow control of the box.

I was having no luck recording shows except for the three timers I had put in at the very beginning which were still working. I decided to try one thing more before doing a firmware upgrade and that was to delete all timers and try again.

From my observations it seems whatever event I have coming up next will work if the iView is on that channel when I turn it off. Sometimes it manages to change channels when the next timer requires a change, but more often than not, it does not.

1. The problem of the see-through menus and timer schedule has been fixed. All menus and timer schedule pages are now no longer see through and have good contrast so that one can actually see and read the listings.

I was on vacation for a week and left the iView working to record four shows I wanted. When I got home, and had time to notice things, I noticed that the USB HD was ticking. I also noticed late Sunday evening that it was recording so I went to bed and in the morning turned the iView off and disconnected the ticking HD.

When I had time the next day I determined that there was nothing wrong with the 2TB USB HD since it worked just fine when connected to my laptop. I also noticed that it did not record anything the evening I returned but had recorded the previous week so something died between the last recording and the one Sunday evening. Exactly one week between them.

I then tested both a FAT32 jump drive and a self powered NTFS USB HD that had all the shows on it except those from the iView HBPVR folder so I made the HBPVR folder and copied one of the iView shows into the HBPVR folder. When I used the externally powered USB HD the iView saw the entire file-folder structure and was able to play shows from all the folders as well.

The American Society of Plant Biologists' Education Foundation will provide nearly $20,000 in funding for a new after-school program on plant biology at Urbana Middle School. With the support of faculty members from several departments, plant biology graduate students will develop the program, called Plants iView, which will have a strong online component.

"The fact that the Plants iView program is student-driven was a key feature in our selection for funding and something for us to be proud of, I think," said plant biology professor Andrew Leakey, principal investigator of the project.

"Many students in our department felt strongly that we could and should put more effort into community outreach, but we didn't yet have the organization or resources in place for it," said Ryan Kelly, student leader of the project. "Plants iView is our homegrown solution to provide both."

Plant biology professor Tom Jacobs, cell and developmental biology professor Mary Schuler, curriculum and instruction professor Barbara Hug, and entomology professor and department head May Berenbaum are supporting the initiative. Plant biology graduate students Cody Markelz, Rhiannon Peery, Miranda Segura, Sharon Gray, Courtney Leisner and Rebecca Slattery will work with Kelly and the faculty members to develop and implement the program.

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