Archive Feature Access

[magiver01]

Hello, I would like to request added a way to call the built in archive feature in V5 from a website url or cmd line and/or in the Kodi plugin if possible.

Thank you

[mvallevand]

You should be able to do it from any UI client available for most platforms as detailed here https://nextpvr.com/download.html That would include the knewc addon for Kodi in UI Client mode.

Note the archive function is currently broken, but it is fixed in the next release.

Martin

[BrettB]

You should be able to do it from any UI client available for most platforms as detailed here https://nextpvr.com/download.html  That would include the knewc addon for Kodi in UI Client mode.

Note the archive function is currently broken, but it is fixed in the next release.

As Martin said, you can access the archive functionality from UI Clients. That also includes the new web browser based UI Client that is also referenced in the web page.

Also, I think that the archive function is currently only broken if you use the Modern Recordings screen. (Which is the default.) You can test it out with a recording and see if it currently works for you. If not, is should be fixed in the next release.

[magiver01]

Thank you, I was just double checked and didn't see any available menu option for it in 19.0.3 of the Kodi plugin. but did notice it in the new web GUI but was more interested in a way to call it programmatically for scripting its call or adding the option into a menu option for the plugin. but will defiantly keep an eye out in future versions . Thanks

[sub]

Thank you, I was just double checked and didn't see any available menu option for it in 19.0.3 of the Kodi plugin. but did notice it in the new web GUI but was more interested in a way to call it programmatically for scripting its call or adding the option into a menu option for the plugin. but will defiantly keep an eye out in future versions . Thanks

The Kodi PVR addon api doesn't allow addons to add extra functionality like that. We're pretty much limited to set of functionality they chose to expose. As mentioned, the functionality is available in other clients though.

[mvallevand]

Thank you, I was just double checked and didn't see any available menu option for it in 19.0.3 of the Kodi plugin.

As I said Kodi plugin script.kodi.knewc does it just like the UI client in the browser.  Conceptually, I can see how to do this if sub implemented the API but I'd like to see another complimentary change so that the recording.list provided a new status of archiving and then it becomes a big change for the backend.

If you are thinking of coding something, I suggest a core change where a user could modify the directory on a recording like they can do on a timer.  This is not a trivial change since the directory list is associated with timers.   It could actually be done by creating a timer type for completed recordings but that would no doubt be a hack which don't get approved.  Sub would still need to implement the API.  That probably is easier then creating a new archive function in Kodi.

Martin