Suggestions for the KODI Add-on

[mvallevand]

I believe I have update the addon for Matrix to flatten the recordings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXfUQV56tHA

The only issue is I think that Kodi has got the sorting wrong IMO the date and name orders should be merging folders and one offs and with file being the file system view with folders then recordings. To me it is dumb to sort folders by date and then single recordings by date.

I have commented on this on the Kodi forum https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=353273 but not really getting much feedback from the devs.

Martin

[Escape7]

Thank you for the work you are doing.

Please consider, if you could not do some of the work also for the current V18 Version.

Kodi V19 - Matrix, is Alpha, not even Beta, and it will take a long way, till it is a stable product. We are not on betas right now, we are on alpha. There will be a long beta phase coming, and after that a long RC phase. And kodi might change things again, till it is finished.

Right now Kodi V19 can not be used in real life, because nothing works correct, most add-ons do no work, etc. The only thing that works is NPVR. Thats good, for the future, but i think most people can not use it, because the do a little more with kodi, and that can only be done with the release, not with the alpha. (not talking about illegal stuff, just the legal plugins).

Would really be great to see that the development for the current stable release is not forgotten, only because the alpha of v19 is out.

Thank you very much, Peter

[mvallevand]

Sorry I am not about to attempt to consider changing Leia for anything but bug fixes at this point. I believe in using the code to test it so it wouldn't make sense to release untested code in a stable release. When I am done with the enhancements I expect that the alpha cycle will be continuing, as you wrote the PVR components are reasonably stable.

There is one PVR design change in Matrix that frustrates me, there is an expectation that users will leave Kodi running for a significant time an hour or more daily which may or maybe not be true but we shall see. Certainly it impacts development.

This is a new version and it is typical not to backport cosmetic changes and usability improvements in software development. The changes are integrated with structural changes in the code which make it hard to isolate change. There is a new settings.xml format and the changes are also dependent on other new features in Matrix. They also are enhanced by new features in V5 so the timing will be good most people will have migrated in the longer term. Of course the source code is available so anyone is free to make a custom version.

Finally rather then requesting this from me you should be finding out from your addon authors when and if they will be migrating. Python 2 is a security issue now and has even been removed from Ubuntu.

Martin

[Escape7]

OK. I understand, even if i would like to have it in another way.

I can work with it right now, and thats OK. Would have been nice, but no problem. It all free software, so thats absolutly OK.

Thank you for your fast response!

[mvallevand]

Escape7  I changed the discussion on the pre release pvr.nextpvr to this thread so you can focus on answering sub's questions.

In response to https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid597220  glad you got it working,  the default is text because the OTA based genre codes are only applicable to DVB.    I will try and explain what is happening in the PR but it might get confusing.

To understand DVB codes have a genre which is generic and then a sub genre which is more specific.  The basic list is show here https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid1250345  the 0 codes are the type and under the type are the sub types

In text mode NextPVR sends both.  So your example with "Nachrichten / Tagesgeschehen" is just a type 0 code and actually it would have been translated before since it didn't have a sub type.  It gets more complicate with sub types/  For news magazine shows you end up getting "News/Current Affair; News Magazine"  in English.  With this change your will get the German "Nachrichtenmagazin"  and English users will see just "News Magazine"

All strings are translated but the one you show in English "Soap / Melodrama / Folkore"  is actually how it is translated in Weblate https://kodi.weblate.cloud/translate/kod...y,position  I was confused at first but in English that is Folkloric so it is working.    Before this change that will always shows as the cumbersome "Movie / Drama; Soap / Melodrama / Folkloric"

The attached change adds support for recording genres,  plus I saw you like the carriage return, it probably is best, so no more -cr file but I made a special case it in Kodi if the first line ends in a year, the CR is removed

Martin

[Escape7]

Hello Martin. At the moment i am not at home so much, so extensiv testing is missing time (for the EPG update problem with sub).

I changed the DLL and made some screenshots for you (that does not take much time).

Looks good! Only one Line feed to much, but i can be that this is part of the EPG data. Really great work!

[Escape7]

I think the line feed is completely correct. This is how the EPG is.

And the break for the years is correct now.

Perfekt!

[mvallevand]

Thanks for taking the time to check. I can't release this as a PR just yet because there is a change coming to the NShared that sends the carriage returns properly and it hasn't even released yet but I will start preparing it. I never really had DVB source to play with but that English and squished text look wrong to me even if I can't read it.

I did try moving Darsteller into cast too but I couldn't find a skin that does a good job with that.

Martin

[Escape7]

Hi Martin,

as soon as the change in nshared.dll is done, i can do testing for you.

I can also make some TS dumps for you, if you need/ want it. Or i could send you my complete database, if this helps. So you would have the complete data. The EPG data is not the same on every channel. And also not every channel/provides has EPG for 14 days, these are only some channels.

Just say everything that would help you.

[mvallevand]

Thanks for the offer, it is much appreciated. I think I would only need a full mux if you find something wasn't working as expected. I can use an expired file for most of my testing.

Martin