GuidePlus for NPVR

[carpeVideo]

What behavior would you like for show like leave it to Bryan? I could make it so you could give it a flag in the showfile where it would not search for episode data or it would search for a more exact match.

I looked on the TVdb and on TVrage and the show is not listed on the TVdb, it is on TVrage but there is not real data for it.

Also if you are using an OTA source you need to pull the schedules direct data twice and the merge the files. Each config points to a different lineup :

xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --days 10 --config xmltv-cable.config --output cable.xml
xmltv.exe tv_grab_na_dd --days 10 --config xmltv-air.config --output air.xml
xmltv.exe tv_cat air.xml cable.xml >tvGuide.xml

After that you still need to merge the channels in NPVR but it only needs to be done once.

[Karyudo]

I think the only reason there's any data on TVrage for 'Leave It To Bryan' is because I put it there! But I haven't been keeping up, and I didn't ever add it to The TVDb. Guess I should...

Regardless, that's the solution for just one show, and I think your suggestion for missing/incomplete shows would do: a flag that could be set to either force guidePlus to ignore episode data for a show, or to search for a more exact match. I'd be pleased to see that added as an option, at your discretion. Thanks, carpeVideo!

As for merging Schedules Direct data, I did figure out I had to pull data twice, and concatenate (it's like this in your batch file, for example, which I analyzed and copied liberally from). However, when I did that, XMLTV.exe notices that some of the channels in the cable lineup and OTA lineups are the same, and it arbitrarily (its word!) chooses one version for the concatenated file. Turns out that's not quite as big a deal as I thought it was -- it's still possible to assign that guide data to two separate channels, one cable and one OTA -- but it's a little annoying that it's not quite as elegantly compartmentalized as it is when using SD natively in NVPR. I do know that this is NOT the fault of guidePlus, of course!

If one were to keep the cable.xml and air.xml files separate, could one then run a batch file that called guidePlus twice, once for each set of channels? Or is it important that all the channels be present in a single "master" tvGuide.xml file?

[carpeVideo]

You could certainly try - guideplus won't mind but I am unsure how npvr will handle things from there.

[mvallevand]

No issues, I tell NextPVR to use three external xml files and also Schedules Direct.

Martin

[skl111]

What command line do I need to use with the latest one for renaming only?
Can you update the wiki as well sometime, it still references the trigger.
http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?....GuidePlus

[carpeVideo]

I think the only reason there's any data on TVrage for 'Leave It To Bryan' is because I put it there! But I haven't been keeping up, and I didn't ever add it to The TVDb. Guess I should...

Regardless, that's the solution for just one show, and I think your suggestion for missing/incomplete shows would do: a flag that could be set to either force guidePlus to ignore episode data for a show, or to search for a more exact match. I'd be pleased to see that added as an option, at your discretion. Thanks, carpeVideo!

I have release a guidePlus version .83 that has the switch you need. Essentially you need to open your showfile and find the leave it to bryan entry.
Remove all the show descriptions from leave it to beaver (all text to the next new show) and add an arg exactMatchOnly to the line as below.

From
NEWSHOW~~Leave It To Bryan~~0~~n/a~~0}}
..... a whole bunch of leave it to beaver episode descriptions ......
NEWSHOW~~Friends~~0~~n/a~~0}}

to

NEWSHOW~~Leave It To Bryan~~0~~n/a~~0~~exactMatchOnly}}
NEWSHOW~~Friends~~0~~n/a~~0}}

With this change it will actually find your entries on dbRage and rename with the season episode strings from there.

[DukeCrow]

Does this still work with the GBPVR database?

I get the following error whenver I run GuidePlus. I do have mode=GBPVR set on the command line.

Code:

*** Altering filenames and/or archiving ***


Unhandled Exception: System.Data.SQLite.SQLi
no such table: scheduled_recording
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLite3.Prepare(SQL
LiteStatement previous, UInt32 timeoutMS, St
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.Build
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.GetSt
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader.Ne
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteDataReader..c
or behave)
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.Execu
   at System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteCommand.Execu
   at ShowDetail.IShows.alterNpvrRecordingsI
Npvr)
   at guidePlus.Program.Main(String[] args)

Note that my GBPVR db has a RECORDING_SCHEDULE table but not a schedule_recording table.

Thanks.

[carpeVideo]

I may have turned off GBPVR support - if necessary I can see if I can flip it back on, I thought gbpvr use had gone to nearly zero at this point

[carpeVideo]

Version .85 released on the wiki. It adds support for the first-run flag in the XML and sets the default new show indicator to a blank, making the assumption the new indicator will be supplied by TV listings or TV guide. If you like the old method use newShowInd=* in the command line. It over-rides any first-run indicator by assuming is a show is a series and is within 3 days of the original air date it is new. Also for movies if the movie has not appeared in the guide before then (new) is appended to the title to be shown in the guide.

[thegpfury]

I've been experimenting with this, pretty great so far.

Two questions though.

1. Is there any way to make rename VPRJ files as well?

2. It sometimes grabs the wrong show if there are several of the same name. Is there any way to have it link a title to a TVDB ID?