Kodi Recurring Recordings (Default Type)

[Fillimerica]

I have traced the behavior of the NextPVR Kodi addon when initiating a series recording from the Kodi EPG.
In Kodi, this is done from the EPG screen with an episode highlighted, and pressing the "t" key on the keyboard or initiating ActionID "ShowTimerRule".
In Kodi Omega, this is the dialog that appears with the listed settings pre-selected.

   

At these default settings, the pvr.nextpvr addon creates a recurring_type=3 entry which corresponds to "Record Series (Daily, this timeslot)" in NextPVR.

Changing the "Prevent duplicate episodes" option from All to New when Type=Recording: Repeating (guide) as shown does not affect the recording type that gets created in NextPVR.
Changing the Channel from the specified one to "All" changes the recording type to "Advanced by Keyword"

However, after playing around with the various options circled, I did observe the following resulting behavior.

1. Changing the Type to "Recording: Repeating (all episodes)" has an effect. Alone, it changes the passed recording_type=2 and causes "Record Series (All Episodes)" in NextPVR. 
(Too bad this isn't the default option in the dialog).
2. With the Type set to  "Recording: Repeating (all episodes)", now the "Prevent duplicate episodes" option works as expected. Changing it as well from all to "New Only" changes the passed recording_type=1 and causes "Record Series (NEW Episodes)" in NextPVR.
3.  With the Type set to  "Recording: Repeating (all episodes)", if the Channel is also changed to "ALL", no recording is possible and a Kodi error is thrown.

I also noticed in the Kodi logs, that when the ShowTimerRule is initiated it appears that the system is trying to load defaults from somewhere, but I don't know where that is.

See:

Code:

2025-10-15 12:12:15.168 T:5456    debug <general>: CInputManager::HandleKey: t (0xf054) pressed, window 10702, action is ShowTimerRule
2025-10-15 12:12:15.168 T:5456    debug <general>: ------ Window Init (DialogSettings.xml) ------
2025-10-15 12:12:15.168 T:5456     info <general>: Loading skin file: DialogSettings.xml, load type: LOAD_EVERY_TIME
2025-10-15 12:12:15.172 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.type) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.172 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.active) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.172 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.name) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.172 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.epgsearch) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.172 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.fulltext) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.channel) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.weekdays) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.startanytime) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.startday) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.begin) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.endanytime) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.endday) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.end) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.firstday) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.newepisodes) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.startmargin) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.endmargin) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.priority) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.lifetime) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.maxrecordings) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.directory) was not found.
2025-10-15 12:12:15.173 T:5456    debug <CSettingsManager>: requested setting (timer.recgroup) was not found.

If anybody has any insights on how to set the defaults, and whether this is coming from the Kodi code or from within the pvr.nextpvr code, I would appreciate it.

Ideally the goal is to press record on the remote and get a Series recording from the guide without having to fuss changing options in the dialog.

[mvallevand]

Timeslot recordings are not the default because not all guide source provide the season, episode and new flags needed for series recordings. The t key just opens up the timer dialog which shows a static list of types so any default change is not trivial and I won't work on it but feel free to submit a PR.

Would you even care if your XMLTV source was good? Hopefully a workaround in NextPVR also be found.

That log spam from Kodi core not pvr.nexpvr and I think it was changed in Piers

I would need the NextPVR logs against Piers not Omega for any actual issues. I could not duplicate #3 as an error and works but I do see that that it doesn't delete the original recurring recording. Some of the code to allow modifications timer of timer type like that is not 100%.

Martin