2015-03-07, 07:22 PM
I'm using the current version of NextPVR. I think that is 3.1.1. Using it with Kodi 14.2. Using Schedules Direct for my channel guide. Everything is working and I have no complaint.
I am a long time user of Replay TV. I was an early adopter and until I built my HTPC (over a year ago now), I had 3 running daily. Still use 1 as a pure backup to make sure I always get my local and national news recorded. My wife still uses a Replay for Jeopardy. Both running Replays also use schedules direct (via Wirns). I hope to eventually get my wife to Kodi, but that may not happen till my last Replay TV gives up the ghost.
Here is the issue I'd like to try to address. On Replay TV, when you look at the channel guide for a particular show. If it is a "repeat" or "re-run", the word "repeat" surrounded by parens (repeat) is at the very beginning of the text describing the show. This only occurs on TV shows, not movies and stuff like that. So I know the schedules direct data has some indicator that a show is a repeat, and of course when you schedule a recording in NextPVR, one of the selections in "Recording Type" is "New episodes" only. So NexpPVR must know the "first run" status of a given show.
It would sure be nice when you looked at the TV Guide info if you knew right then if the show was a repeat or not. I am sure there are a lot of ways this could be done. You could put (repeat) at the beginning of the text (like Replay TV), a different color in the background, or many things. While I think that would be a good enhancement, if I knew where that info was within the database that contains the detail program guide, I could run a batch job after the EPG data is gathered and put the "repeat" indicator in myself. I know Kodi gets its guide from NextPVR so I assume if I modified the data on the NextPVR side it would get to Kodi by default.
Anyone have any ideas on how I might do this? I've gotten pretty good at Python since I built my HTPC, so I know I could code it if I knew where the data was and how to access it.
Thanks for any assistance given. I realize this is not a big priority item and the NextPVR team have plenty of more important things to worry about. But any help would be appreciated.
I am a long time user of Replay TV. I was an early adopter and until I built my HTPC (over a year ago now), I had 3 running daily. Still use 1 as a pure backup to make sure I always get my local and national news recorded. My wife still uses a Replay for Jeopardy. Both running Replays also use schedules direct (via Wirns). I hope to eventually get my wife to Kodi, but that may not happen till my last Replay TV gives up the ghost.
Here is the issue I'd like to try to address. On Replay TV, when you look at the channel guide for a particular show. If it is a "repeat" or "re-run", the word "repeat" surrounded by parens (repeat) is at the very beginning of the text describing the show. This only occurs on TV shows, not movies and stuff like that. So I know the schedules direct data has some indicator that a show is a repeat, and of course when you schedule a recording in NextPVR, one of the selections in "Recording Type" is "New episodes" only. So NexpPVR must know the "first run" status of a given show.
It would sure be nice when you looked at the TV Guide info if you knew right then if the show was a repeat or not. I am sure there are a lot of ways this could be done. You could put (repeat) at the beginning of the text (like Replay TV), a different color in the background, or many things. While I think that would be a good enhancement, if I knew where that info was within the database that contains the detail program guide, I could run a batch job after the EPG data is gathered and put the "repeat" indicator in myself. I know Kodi gets its guide from NextPVR so I assume if I modified the data on the NextPVR side it would get to Kodi by default.
Anyone have any ideas on how I might do this? I've gotten pretty good at Python since I built my HTPC, so I know I could code it if I knew where the data was and how to access it.
Thanks for any assistance given. I realize this is not a big priority item and the NextPVR team have plenty of more important things to worry about. But any help would be appreciated.
