Import recordings from TvHeadEnd?

[aTF6i]

That's the full list, yeah

[mvallevand]

OK, thanks I can always modify it for other lists.

Martin

[mvallevand]

The file says there total of 508 recording but I only see 1/10th of that. Can you see if either of these create bigger files

curl http://user:password@tvh:9981/api/dvr/entry/grid_finished?limit=0 -o filename
curl http://user:password@tvh:9981/api/dvr/entry/grid_finished?limit=1 -o filename
curl http://user:password@tvh:9981/api/dvr/entry/grid_finished?limit=10000 -o filename

Martin

[aTF6i]

Last one worked.

Seemed to stick it all on a single line, though

[mvallevand]

That's JSON that's ok on one line. They are all there and I do seem some S/E infomation on Taskmaster. I will also clean up some that start with "New: " and some that have the subtitle in the title (I took it out of the description already)

You run in Docker right? I saw you posting in the linux sub group.

Martin

[aTF6i]

That's right, I run it in docker

I thought you'd have some automated script to convert them over? I hope it's not a load of manual work?

[mvallevand]

This reuses a lot of code so it is trivial really.  I do a little extra just for fun to make it look better.  There is a website json2csharp that does the hard part.

Martin

[aTF6i]

I've been doing some tidying up myself, I've put some of it off as TVHeadend wasn't helping me

I had a few reasons I moved away from TVHeadEnd...

1. The newest version would not work for me
   
2. Couldn't get any answers of the forums
   
3. Duplicate episode detection would not work, so I've just been through and manually deleted tonnes of repeats
   
4. Recordings, particularly CBeebies would not stop and I'd manually have to go in and stop them...After recording for say 72 hours...Maximum time did not work
   

Now I'm making some progress, I've started encoding some of my keeps over to h264. I usually do this and then move them over to Jellyfin.

A nice little bonus is NextPVR appears to name them in the scheme that I would usually need to go searching

[mvallevand]

Here to you go install instruction here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid564371

Syntax for this on docker from bash.  Better to unzip the files before going into bash since unzip would need to be installed

cd /app
dotnet NextTool.dll --tvheadend filename

filename can be created anywhere but the recording names from TVHeadend need to be as seen by the NextPVR file system.

To recap the syntax to get the TVHeadend recording JSON file is

curl http://user:password@tvh:9981/api/dvr/entry/grid_finished?limit=10000 -o filename

There should be a log of what is happening in NextTool.log in the NextPVR log folder (and in the zip) and you can remove it if all is good.

Martin

[aTF6i]

Worked a treat. Many thanks for your hard effort; it's very much appreciated

For anyone else using this tool to import tvheadend; do as follows

• curl http://user:password@tvh:9981/api/dvr/entry/grid_finished?limit=10000 -o filename  (Grab the JSON of recordings from TVHeadEnd
  
• Extract   NextTool-1.0.1.zip
  
• Move extractions + filename JSON to a place the docker can grab the files
  
• sudo docker exec -u 0 -it nextpvr /bin/bash (Bash into docker nextpvr)
  
• Copy all 5 files to /app
  
• apt install sqlite3
  
• cp /app/runtimes/linux-x64/native/libe_sqlite3.so /app/
  
• cd /app/
  
• dotnet NextTool.dll --tvheadend filename
  

Done