episode search, don't get it - not working ?

[KRA]

I might be getting picky, but from the searche's screenshot, the EPG doesn't really align with 20:00? Visual misalignment, or does the programme start earlier than 20:00, hence failing to comply with the search?

hehe, nice find, however it's only a gui/web site display error. The show does actually start at 20.00 and is reporting as starting 20.00 everywhere.

[ACTCMS]

Hi ACTCMS,

I have not looked at the CLI yet, but is fighting with NEWA auto search/record

Problem is, it's not returning any results on my searches, even if it should.

To keep it really basic I try the following:

- all I type in is keyword to search for and what channel to use. I hit submit and it presents me with 2 results.
1. this saturday at 1800-1855
2. this saturday at 1900-2000

THIS IS CORRECT, and all it should find based on the EPG data.

Then I up the ante and add another setting, I add on time range start time 1800, now it only finds
1. this saturday at 1800-1855

Then I add both start 1800 and end time 20.00 and it finds:
1. this saturday 1900-2000

I can actually set any endtime after 20.00 and it will give me that result, however if I set anything before 20.00 it will result in blank.

If I set start 1600 end 2200 all it picks up is the 1900-2000 show, only way I can get it to find the 1800-1855 show is to set only start time (1800) and no endtime. Or simply no time at all.

My appologies - I never specify any dates or times in my rules. I normally start with only the search phrase and let it run, then if I get too many hits (recordings I don't want) I normally add a channel to the rule (usually to get rid of the +1 channels) - I do get quite a few unwanted recordings which I simply delete, but I rarely missing anything...

I'll do some playing about with times to see if I can confirm your results...

Alex

[mvallevand]

It's hard to test this because there is also a potential bug (cosmetic?) in NextPVR http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post443941 so when I was working with my FTR import I really didn't know what date sub is expecting and what it uses.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Load the attahed updated search engine class which provides a little more detailed logging and post the results for the search.

[KRA]

here is the log for search, as you can see in log it finds several hits in the epg, and several that are withing the parameters/rules, but in the end it doesn't process any of them.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Ok....attached is a patch for the search engine....let me know if this fixes it.

Looking at the code in debug I found the below.....the single line compare that also formats the time into a standard string returns -1 (var-a < var-b) but when the same values are first converted to a string and then do the compare the result = 1 (var-a > var-b) which is what (given the values of var-a and var-b) the return should be.

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[KRA]

Great stuff, that seems to have fixed it, tried 3 different shows and they all return correct result.

I ran into another issue though, not a big issue but the search does not handle norwegian characters, they are displayed corrent in tv-guide and logs but search, seems like the search process works fine, but the result page come up blank. The chars are åøæ ÅØÆ (don't know if you can see them).

And last is there a way to exclude re-runs ? they are marked ® in my epg.

Oh, one more thing Is there a way to limit the number of recordings to keep, this option is available after you click submit on episode search, but I'm looking for the option on the auto-record feature.

Like :

on channel TV2 between 2100 and 2130 record The News, and keep the last 7 shows.

[UncleJohnsBand]

Great stuff, that seems to have fixed it, tried 3 different shows and they all return correct result.

Thanks....good to hear.

I ran into another issue though, not a big issue but the search does not handle norwegian characters, they are displayed corrent in tv-guide and logs but search, seems like the search process works fine, but the result page come up blank. The chars are åøæ ÅØÆ (don't know if you can see them).

Not sure why it is not working on the results pages....they are coded the same as all the other pages.

And last is there a way to exclude re-runs ? they are marked ® in my epg.

Oh, one more thing Is there a way to limit the number of recordings to keep, this option is available after you click submit on episode search, but I'm looking for the option on the auto-record feature.

Like :

on channel TV2 between 2100 and 2130 record The News, and keep the last 7 shows.

Not from the search page....but when you setup a recurring recording both of those are options.