Manual recording API

[mvallevand]

I am trying to schedule a manual recording for a show in Kodi.  Is there a way using the API to keep it manual if I provide a name?  In this case my 2hr recording is being truncated to one hour.

Code:

2023-11-08 18:37:37.972 [DEBUG][221]    Got request [127.0.0.1]: /service (recording.save)
2023-11-08 18:37:37.972 [DEBUG][221]    method=recording.save
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]    parameters:
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      method: recording.save
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      name: CBC Ottawa News
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      recording_id: 0
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      channel: 7388
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      time_t: 1699484340
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      duration: 7260
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      pre_padding: 0
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      post_padding: 0
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      directory_id: Default
2023-11-08 18:37:37.973 [DEBUG][221]      sid: 2da1af8edcdb4e2cb84aa381e888bf22
2023-11-08 18:37:37.974 [DEBUG][221]      client_ip: 127.0.0.1
2023-11-08 18:37:37.974 [DEBUG][221]      user_agent: Kodi/21.0-BETA1 (Windows NT 10.0.22631.2506; W2023-11-08 18:37:37.974 [DEBUG][221]      host_callback: ...
2023-11-08 18:37:37.974 [DEBUG][221]    Schedule Recording from EPGEvent...
2023-11-08 18:37:37.975 [DEBUG][221]    about to record:
<Event>
  <OID>2301140</OID>
  <Title>CBC Ottawa News</Title>
  <SubTitle></SubTitle>
  <Description>Coverage of the top local news.</Description>
  <ChannelOID>7388</ChannelOID>
  <StartTime>2023-11-08T22:59:00.0000000Z</StartTime>
  <EndTime>2023-11-09T00:00:00.0000000Z</EndTime>
  <FirstRun>true</FirstRun>
  <OriginalAirDate>2015-10-05T04:00:00.0000000</OriginalAirDate>
  <Quality>HDTV</Quality>
  <Genres>
    <Genre>News</Genre>
  </Genres>
  <MD5>MVnlNLHZB7UuWmhEFLvjpQ</MD5>
  <UniqueID>SH022793520000</UniqueID>
</Event>

Martin

[sub]

Looking at the code, if the name is an exact match on that channel, for that time, then no - it treats it as a EPG based recording. If the name hadn't been an exact match, it'd have been stayed a manual recording.

Could probably add some sort of &manual=true for the next release if you need it.

[mvallevand]

I don't really want to make a Kodi specific rule, With the web rule not matching on the name could it be because of XML vs JSON or maybe because Kodi send recording_id: 0 on new recordings?

Code:

2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]    method=recording.save
2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]    parameters:
2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]       method: recording.save
2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]       channel: 7396
2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]       time_t: 1699539000
2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]       duration: 720
2023-11-09 09:10:09.231    [DEBUG][111]       name: Drazilion
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       pre_padding: 0
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       post_padding: 0
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       directory_id: Default
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       format: json
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       sid: 64ef8210-1ef3-49e8-85c3-efad506cdab7
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       client_ip: 127.0.0.1
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0
2023-11-09 09:10:09.232    [DEBUG][111]       host_callback: ...
2023-11-09 09:10:09.233    [DEBUG][111]    Unable to find matching show ('Drazilion': 2023-11-09 09:10). Scheduling manual recording.

and Kodi matching

Code:

2023-11-09 09:07:12.111    [DEBUG][19]    method=recording.save
2023-11-09 09:07:12.111    [DEBUG][19]    parameters:
2023-11-09 09:07:12.111    [DEBUG][19]       method: recording.save
2023-11-09 09:07:12.111    [DEBUG][19]       name: Drazilion
2023-11-09 09:07:12.111    [DEBUG][19]       recording_id: 0
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       channel: 7396
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       time_t: 1699538400
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       duration: 3600
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       pre_padding: 0
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       post_padding: 0
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       directory_id: Default
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       sid: e05e9c15cb304192809912a8f0580a22
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       client_ip: 127.0.0.1
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       user_agent: Kodi/21.0-BETA1 (Windows NT 10.0.22631.2506; Win64; x64) App_Bitness/64 Version/21.0-BETA1-(20.90.801)-Git:20231021-55c05bdc51
2023-11-09 09:07:12.112    [DEBUG][19]       host_callback: ...
2023-11-09 09:07:12.113    [DEBUG][19]    Schedule Recording from EPGEvent...

Martin