imageGrabLite Beta

[mvallevand]

Inspired by JavaWiz's WizImageGrab, and based on SearchLite's online search engine please find the first beta of imageGrabLite. If you haven't run SearchLite before the searches will get metadata and cover art from thetvdb.com, tvrage.com and themoviedb.org.

You can run it from the command line.for testing or add to the Script batch file(s). It must be run from the NPVR Program Files folder, where it is installed because it uses NPVR plugin dlls.

1) The syntax for single file recordings in ParallelProcessing.bat on 32bit is


"C:\Program Files\NPVR\imageGrabLite.exe" --oid %3


(it uses %3 because it is the real database oid which avoid issues if the file gets renamed)

If you also want to rename it to S##E## notation and get images in PostProcessing.bat


"C:\Program Files\NPVR\imageGrabLite.exe" --oid %3 --rename



2) The syntax for EPG update processing to get new scheduled shows in PostUpdateEPG.bat on 32bit is


"C:\Program Files\NPVR\imageGrabLite.exe" --updateepg


3) If you are using schedules direct or some zap2it based EPG add
--zap2it to stop searching files that aren't marked as movies on themovedb.org.

4) If you want to exclude generic files from searching edit
excluded.txt in the Plugins\SearchLite folder
You can have as many real regular expression searches as you'd like to
exclude any show with news just enter

News

Regular expression assume *News*

A unique name would be

^Criminal Minds$

5) I found there are specific channels that don't return many matches to exclude channels from channels add a line to your Excluded.txt file like this

SkipChannels=54, 56

6) Files that aren't found are marked in Plugins\SearchList\Skips

7) Files that are found are in Media\Shows as .xml and .jpg

If you have trouble compress and upload your imageGrabLite log files and I will have a look.


Martin

[jksmurf]

Awesome! Can't wait to try it after work tonight. It seems to be a wider scope than what we were discussing though? I thought the idea was to restrict it to recordings, existing and pending only?

K

[mvallevand]

I thought the idea was to restrict it to recordings, existing and pending only?

I didn't widen the scope. In the --oid mode in Post/ParallelProcessing.bat it searches them one-by-one as they are recording, in --updateepg mode it gets new information for files that are pending. The changes from the discussions were to provide a couple of ways to restrict this even further

Martin

[gEd]

wonderful....! Many thanks indeed Martin.

testing now, will provide fb asap.

[jksmurf]

I think I must be doing something wrong?

Code:

[...startup]
2011-06-28 06:11:36.721    [DEBUG][1]    Command Line --updateepg
2011-06-28 06:11:36.822    [DEBUG][1]    Searching select scheduled_recording.name, event_details from scheduled_recording, channel where filename = "" group by name
2011-06-28 06:11:36.822    [ERROR][1]    Read Error SQLite error
ambiguous column name: name

k.

[mvallevand]

Sorry about that I broke it on a last minute change Try this one.

Edit: Update moved to the first post http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post412754

Martin

[johnsonx42]

looks nice Martin. I'm away on vacation now, but look forward to implementing this on my box in 2 weeks when I get back home.

[jksmurf]

Code:

[...startup]
2011-06-28 19:38:03.664    [DEBUG][1]    Command Line --updateepg
2011-06-28 19:38:03.755    [DEBUG][1]    Searching select scheduled_recording.name, event_details from scheduled_recording, channel where filename = "" group by scheduled_recording.name
2011-06-28 19:38:05.911    [ERROR][1]    Read Error Could not find a part of the path 'c:\temp\martinrage.xml'.

Hardcoded temp path?

k.

[mvallevand]

Ok sorry again, I was testing myself to keep it under an hour and it shows. I have update the file in post 1 again.

Martin

[jksmurf]

Code:

[...startup]
2011-06-28 20:13:49.605    [DEBUG][1]    Command Line --updateepg
2011-06-28 20:13:49.710    [DEBUG][1]    Searching select scheduled_recording.name, event_details from scheduled_recording, channel where filename = "" group by scheduled_recording.name
2011-06-28 20:13:52.828    [ERROR][1]    Read Error Could not find a part of the path 'c:\temp\martinrage.xml'.

No worries Martin, that's what beta testers are for... :-)
.. same error though? Maybe multiple instances