Media Browser Integration

[mvallevand]

I just update to try to help and it looks like the stupid server is now trying to download meta data for each epg entry so no thanks for now.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Ok it's not d/ling them from the Internet but it downloads and creates a separate image for each instance in the guide for one show. That's hundreds for The Big Bang Theory alone. As a result loading the EPG for two weeks data is way too slow 20 seconds a channel and I have 180+ channels.

Martin

[lukemb3]

It shouldn't be reading two weeks. You can go to the dashboard -> live tv settings -> change the number of guide days to 2. If the downloads are currently in progress, you can stop them by going to scheduled tasks -> stop the refresh guide task, although in the current version of the server you'll need to rerun the task manually after changing the setting.

[mvallevand]

Ok that's done to 5-7 seconds a channel but still way too slow. 80% of the problem seems to be in NEWA though, so UJB might need to look at it.

Martin

[UncleJohnsBand]

Ok that's done to 5-7 seconds a channel but still way too slow. 80% of the problem seems to be in NEWA though, so UJB might need to look at it.

Martin

Looking into this now....

[mvallevand]

lukemb3, is there a url to generate and epg update? I'd like to do that as a scheduled task, since although the NEWA time can be reduced (to under two minutes in my case) a full update takes another 10 minutes. If there is no url, I see a date stamp file can I just delete it and restart the service?

Martin

[mvallevand]

Can I disable automatcic epg updates completely? I got home today figuring I had a 1/2 an hour to play and without even updating my npvr.db3 from the backend MB3 server

1) did an epg update

2014-03-03 17:41:28.3303 Info - App: Refresh Guide Completed after 10 minute(s) and 2 seconds

2) update to new alpha server

3) did another epg update on restart with no check for an image on each event

2014-03-03 17:44:14.9069 Info - App: Refresh Guide Completed after 1 minute(s) and 49 seconds

(This is a killer each time I restart to load a new compile)

It's definitely fetching a year of data even when I ask for two days.

Martin

[lukemb3]

The best way to solve this is ensure the objects only have image url's if the images exist. That will eliminate 95% of the http requests. As you guys know the epg data can change, so just because a program doesn't have an image the first time, doesn't mean it won't have an image three hours later. so that's why it tries again everytime it refreshes the guide. You can eliminate all of those 404's http requests just by making that change.

[mvallevand]

You just shift the burden of checking the 60000 EPG entries for an image to the backend though. I just tried changing ImageUrl = null to see if I can live with it during testing and it still adds 10 seconds on to each scan, (8 1/2 minutes on an i7) so it is not something you want to do interactively.

Martin

[lukemb3]

There is a change that I would have to make also that will drastically reduce it. Right now regardless of ImageUrl the plugin will also attempt to use your image api endpoint and then just get a 404. If you guys are able to make this change, then I can remove that and you will see a drastic reduction.

The startup guide download that you mentioned before is something I do intend to improve. It shouldn't need to do that everytime, so I will be improving that.