Append Channel/Network to file name

[MarkMills]

Hi all,
I've been trying to find away to add the channel/network name to the recorded file name. My intention is that I want to use MCEBuddy to carry out specific tasks dependent on the channel. For example, in the UK, I don't want to carry out a commercial scan for BBC channels. And the add detection for Quest seems to be different for the Dave channel.
I've sort of got Imagegrablite working but cannot see a way to just add the channel name.
Any idea or pointers?
Thanks in advance
Mark

[sub]

There is nothing built in that will do that, but the PostProcessing.bat, which is run after each recording, is passed the channel number as the second parameter, so you can hookup your own custom logic if you want.

[MarkMills]

OK, great. Thank you. That's encouraging to know that it's possible. I've made some progress and adapted JavaWiz's batch file as below

:BEGIN
SETLOCAL
Set SCRIPTNAME=%0
Set BASEDIR=c:\Users\Public\NPVR
Set LOGFILE=%BASEDIR%\Logs\BatchProcessing.log

Set FILENAME=%1
Set CH_NUM=%2
Set OID=%3
Set DEV_OID=%4
Set REC_TITLE=%5

Call :LOGMSG Recording complete - filename: %FILENAME% ChannelNUM: %CH_NUM% OID: %OID% DeviceOID: %DEV_OID% Title: %REC_TITLE%

:: EX: Place your system specific commands here...
rename %FILENAME% %REC_TITLE%,%CH_NUM%

GoTo :EXITJOB

--------------------------------------------------------------
:LOGMSG
echo %*
echo %date:~4% %time% [%SCRIPTNAME%] %* >> %LOGFILE%
Goto :EOF

But the rename command has spaces and quote marks in it so that I get:

rename "\\OPENMEDIAVAULT3\TVHRecordings\Room 101\Room 101_20170816_21002140.ts" "Room 101",12
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
I've checked the replace spaces with period characters box.

Any further thoughts would be appreciated.
Regards
Mark
PS Please excuse the TVHeadend reference, that was the previous attempt at getting my ultimate set up. :-)

[JavaWiz]

You might try something like:

Code:

:BEGIN
    SETLOCAL
    Set SCRIPTNAME=%0
    Set BASEDIR=c:\Users\Public\NPVR
    Set LOGFILE=%BASEDIR%\Logs\BatchProcessing.log

    Set FILENAME=%1
    Set CH_NUM=%2
    Set OID=%3
    Set DEV_OID=%4
    Set REC_TITLE=%5
[B]    [color=#FF0000]Set REC_TITLE=%REC_TITLE:"=%[/color][/B]
    
    Call :LOGMSG Recording complete - filename: %FILENAME% ChannelNUM: %CH_NUM% OID: %OID% DeviceOID: %DEV_OID% Title: %REC_TITLE%

    :: EX: Place your system specific commands here...
    rename %FILENAME% [B][color=#FF0000]"%REC_TITLE%--%CH_NUM%%~x1"[/color][/B]

GoTo :EXITJOB

[MarkMills]

Thank you JavaWiz, I don't think my tinkering would have resulted in anything like that. This achieves the renaming nicely, but I seem to have lost the recordings from the database/recordings screen. Is there a workaround for that or am I venturing into unknown territory at this point?
Thanks again,
Mark.
PS, I assume the first line is redundant??
Set REC_TITLE=%5
Set REC_TITLE=%REC_TITLE:"=%

[JavaWiz]

First line is not redundant. 1st line loads parameter into variable, 2nd line removes the quotes. It could probably be done in a single statement, but I didn't test it out...

To keep the database in-sync, you'll want to use NScriptHelper.exe. There is some documentation in this thread.

Add something like line below after the rename:

Code:

NScriptHelper.exe %FILENAME% "%REC_TITLE%--%CH_NUM%%~x1"

If NPVR directory is not in your path, you'll have to prefix it with the location of the exe.

[pBS]

an easier way to remove quotes from an incoming parameter is to use %~
example:
Set FILENAME=%~1
Set REC_TITLE=%~5

will load those variables without the quotes surrounding them
and keeps the spaces in the variable..
[note, only works with incoming %x and %%x variables not with normal variables like %REC_TITLE%]