Is there an easier way to rearrange the priorities of 600+ recurring recordings?

[ChaosMageX]

Currently I have 610 recurring recordings and I want to rearrange them so that they're grouped by channel so that finally NextPVR will record back-to-back shows on the same tuner.

However, given the shear number, it just isn't practical to use the Ctrl + Left-Arrow / Ctrl + Right-Arrow method in the UI.

Is there an alternate way in the UI or a way I can do it in a text file in order to group them by channel?

I want to stop NextPVR from losing the post-padding so often, which more often than not loses part of the end of the show, or at least part of the end credits.

I'm hoping I could simply do it with the daily exported recurring recording XML file and simply re-import the recordings in the correct order, because then I can just write external software to read, rearrange, and rewrite the file. However, I need to know in advance if that will work.

If writing external software will work, then where can I find the schema for the exported recurring recording XML file? I want to make sure that the software doesn't miss any data fields.

[sub]

600+ recurring recordings? Is this for commercial use?

[ChaosMageX]

600+ recurring recordings? Is this for commercial use?

This is really part of a currently private television archival project of my own making. It's really more of a hobby right now. For now I'm still experimenting. Many of those recordings are actually regularly scheduled news broadcasts and talk shows that I've added gradually since I started this project back in September of 2015. At the very least I will eventually contribute my now 150+ terabytes of recordings to the TV News Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/tv.

At least a dozen of them are also duplicates of shows that have apostrophes and ampersands in their names. Those symbols occasionally vanish from the listings in the guide, most likely due to escaping issues in parsing the XMLTV file, but I haven't checked to be sure.

In reviewing my recurring recordings, I have managed to deleted 27 programs that have been cancelled, so now I'm down to 583, but that's still a significant number.

Now you can see the reason why I wish there was just a priority number for each recurring recording I could edit rather than rearranging the recordings in the GUI.

Still, the more I think about it, the more I would like to make some software for processing the exported recurring recordings XML file, so knowing the structure and all the possible data fields would definitely be useful.

[sub]

For now I'm still experimenting. Many of those recordings are actually regularly scheduled news broadcasts and talk shows that I've added gradually since I started this project back in September of 2015. At the very least I will eventually contribute my now 150+ terabytes of recordings to the TV News Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/tv.

That would be outside the home personal use allowed by NextPVR. You would need a commercial license to do this.

[ChaosMageX]

That would be outside the home personal use allowed by NextPVR. You would need a commercial license to do this.

Actually, after further analysis of my recurring recordings (basically tallying them), it seems that the vast majority of them are indeed TV shows, which are for my personal use only. I only thought the news was greater because it tends to take up more space than my TV shows.

Even after eliminating all the news broadcasts and talk shows, I'm left with over 500 TV shows.

Why do I record that many TV shows? Because streaming is complete BS, and having all the shows available on a personal cloud is better, and I prefer to keep all my TV shows archived, even after I've watched them.

With that aside, that means that my server is mostly for personal use and once again I am tired of it ruining my TV shows by not recording back-to-back shows on the same tuner, so I want to find an easier way to rearrange those 500+ shows so that they are grouped by channel and prioritized as such.

[mvallevand]

The easiest way to do this is to use a sqlite GUI utility to edit the priority field of the recurring_recording table in npvr.db3 and manually. To make make some room between shows you first might want to execute a sqlite command globally like this

update recurring_recording
set priority = priority * 100

Backup npvr.db3 before changing the database.

Martin

[ChaosMageX]

Ah, okay, cool. What SQLite GUI tool would you suggest I use? Now that you mention it, directly editing NextPVR's database probably is the best course of action.

[Handy.Man]

That would be outside the home personal use allowed by NextPVR. You would need a commercial license to do this.

I looked around on the wiki, the web site and here in the forum, I didn't find any definition about the license of NextPVR. Is-it somewhere else ?

[Graham]

I looked around on the wiki, the web site and here in the forum, I didn't find any definition about the license of NextPVR. Is-it somewhere else ?

I expect that you, and all the rest of us, read it when it was displayed during the Nextpvr installation.

[Handy.Man]

Well, I probably didn't read it last time I installed NextPVR , but I will read it next time I upgrade to 4.0.5.