myGBPVR: use XMBC as GBPVR FrontEnd

[dljones8053]

Ton

Ok I'm going to be brave here and ask if this script will work with XMBC Version 10.0, I have loaded Beta2 on a box and looks like a lot of the external scripting is built into the app now. You can grab plug-ins and skins within the app and it does the rest of the work by downloading and install itself, very nice direction XBMC is going in. btw I use XBMC as a full time client and works great.

dj

[Blackhawk]

I am in the process of trying to integrate GBPVR with XBMC.

I am not so much interested in using XBMC to schedule recordings. Therefore I believe I can use 2XBMC.exe alone, without using the XBMC scripts. I would use 2XBMC to copy the file to my WHS and rename it to a SxxExx format required for XBMC library mode. It would have been nice to have 2XBMC move the file and update the GBPVR DB, but I understand your design decision.

I have 3 issues.

The first issue is with the fact that 2XBMC is using S01Exx as default. I do have some shows where I have archived say season 1 and 2, and I am now recording season 3. That would make the new recording clash with old recordings if using 2XBMC. This one I can probably fix easily by editing the source code and use S99Exx. Then when I am ready to archive rename to S03Exx with proper episode number.

The second one is more tricky to fix for me as I am not a C# guy. The script is having issues with accented characters. For example, I have a show named L'Épicerie. GBPVR will trunk it to LÉpicerie. When using 2XBMC, a directory named LÉpicerie gets created with a show LÉpicerieS01E01 .The generated nfo files also includes the same code (I did not get to the point to see if it would show correctly in XBMC though). It looks like there is a missing conversion from XML unicode to whatever is used by the OS for filenames and directories.

EDIT: It seems the board does not like accented characters eitheir! The show is Lxepicerie where x is E accute. The resulting directory and files are Lcodepicerie where code is "& # 2 0 1 ;" without spaces.

The third is that it does not copy other files associated to the show (I am using EDL comskip files) but that agoin I could probably fix myself using source code.

Pierre

[carpeVideo]

I am in the process of trying to integrate GBPVR with XBMC.

I am not so much interested in using XBMC to schedule recordings. Therefore I believe I can use 2XBMC.exe alone, without using the XBMC scripts. I would use 2XBMC to copy the file to my WHS and rename it to a SxxExx format required for XBMC library mode. It would have been nice to have 2XBMC move the file and update the GBPVR DB, but I understand your design decision.

I have 3 issues.

The first issue is with the fact that 2XBMC is using S01Exx as default. I do have some shows where I have archived say season 1 and 2, and I am now recording season 3. That would make the new recording clash with old recordings if using 2XBMC. This one I can probably fix easily by editing the source code and use S99Exx. Then when I am ready to archive rename to S03Exx with proper episode number.

The second one is more tricky to fix for me as I am not a C# guy. The script is having issues with accented characters. For example, I have a show named L'Épicerie. GBPVR will trunk it to LÉpicerie. When using 2XBMC, a directory named LÉpicerie gets created with a show LÉpicerieS01E01 .The generated nfo files also includes the same code (I did not get to the point to see if it would show correctly in XBMC though). It looks like there is a missing conversion from XML unicode to whatever is used by the OS for filenames and directories.

EDIT: It seems the board does not like accented characters eitheir! The show is Lxepicerie where x is E accute. The resulting directory and files are Lcodepicerie where code is "& # 2 0 1 ;" without spaces.

The third is that it does not copy other files associated to the show (I am using EDL comskip files) but that agoin I could probably fix myself using source code.

Pierre

I have a version of guidePlus that does all of the above on a nightly run- its beta but let me know if you want to give it a try.
Here is what it does
* renames series with s0xE0x syntax,
* moves series to a specified directory (and all others to a different directory if you'd like)
* renames and moves all associated files
* makes appropriate changes in the GBPVR database

It also adds the series data to the guide info.

CV

[Blackhawk]

CarpeVideo,

Would it also create fake season and episode number when there are no info available? Most French show in Quebec do not provide info as to Season and Episode to TV Guide providers. They don't even provide episode title most of the time (at least for ScheduleDirect).

I also studied the option of using the myGBPVR scripts. Fumbled a bit with PyCrypto and finally got it installed. In the end I didn't get it to work. I am currently using Dharma beta 2, and I found out that pre Dharma scripts will not work on Dharma. I guess I am in integration hell!

[carpeVideo]

Do the French listings have an episode number starting with ep.... or sh.... that is what I look for to know if it is a series, although you can manually specify by title in a txt file.

[Blackhawk]

The Zap2It XML shows 1 program with the SH00xxxxxx00000 and EP00xxxxxx. The listing is refering to that same program multiple times, even if those slots are showing different episodes.

The work around with 2XBMC (as far as I understand it) is that in these case it would arbitrarily use season 1 and then increment episode number using the first available episode number. So first show copied gets episode 1, second show episode 2 and so on.

[tm12]

Getting errors connecting. Access from a web browser works. What is wrong here?

Code:

16:20:32 T:159220 M: 80883712  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
16:20:33 T:159220 M: 85012480  NOTICE: myGBPVRGlobals Version: 0.0.1 Date: 29-11-2009
16:20:34 T:159220 M: 83558400  NOTICE: Resolving hostname to: 127.0.0.1
16:20:35 T:159700 M: 84135936   ERROR: DIRECTORY::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting ?
16:20:35 T:159700 M: 84135936   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(?) failed
16:20:35 T:159220 M: 84127744  NOTICE: --> AreYouThere() socket on port 7620 using ip=127.0.0.1
16:20:35 T:159220 M: 84127744  NOTICE:                   mac:00:22:19:DE:2A:7Abroadcast: 255.255.255.255
16:20:35 T:159220 M: 84127744  NOTICE: This got: False / 00:22:19:DE:2A:7A
16:20:35 T:159220 M: 84119552  NOTICE: --> AreYouThere() returning: True
16:20:35 T:155856 M: 78974976   ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
16:20:35 T:155856 M: 75104256   ERROR: WEATHER: Weather download failed!
16:20:38 T:159220 M: 81129472  NOTICE: EXCEPTION: : Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "C:\Documents and Settings\terrencem\Application Data\XBMC\scripts\myGBPVR\resources\src\gbpvr\home.py", line 151, in refreshOnInit
                                                self.statusData = self.gbpvr.GetGBPVRInfo(self.settings.GBPVR_USER, self.settings.GBPVR_PW)
                                              File "C:\Documents and Settings\terrencem\Application Data\XBMC\scripts\myGBPVR\resources\src\GBPVR_Connect.py", line 113, in GetGBPVRInfo
                                                website = urllib2.urlopen(address)
                                              File "special:\\xbmc\system\python\python24.zlib\urllib2.py", line 130, in urlopen
                                            HTTPError: HTTP Error 407: Proxy Authentication Required

[codex]

Is there any chance of this working on the new release of XBMC an NPVR? It would be great to see the two combined.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Is there any chance of this working on the new release of XBMC an NPVR? It would be great to see the two combined.

I was in conversation with Ton the other day....he is still working on things (MyNPVR) but has been preoccupied by community work on Android open-source initiative as well as some Linux work. He didn't say when he would have a release.....

[JiiJii]

Does this script work on the latest XBMC release? I'm a noob with XBMC and I tried to install this script and then I realised that the scripts have been changed to addons.