Forcing a SXXEXXX when one doesn't exist

[bigoldboy]

Hello. I have everything running nice and NextPVR records and adds to my PLEX library on my NAS.  

If i record a program that doesn't have a S00E00 format it creates the file with date+time. For example, recording right now and it writes it as "The Carpenters Close to You & Christmas Memories (My Music Presents)_20191207_10301230".  

When I go to watch in PLEX, it won't see it because it is looking for a S00E00 format. Is there any way to have "_20191207_10301230" written as "S2019E1207"? As soon as I manually change it, PLEX sees it.   I watch a lot of news and there are not S00E00 formats in SD tv guide for that.  

I try to use the PLEX PVR but it is not nearly as reliable as NextPVR. 

Thanks everyone, great product and great community. 

[JavaWiz]

If you are familiar with batch scripts, I think you could do this via a custom script, probably Postprocessing.bat would be best.   When renaming, if you want to keep the NextPVR db in-sync, make a call NScriptHelper.exe (updates the entry in db, not on file-system)

I would however suggest you use the full date and time as the Season Episode designators, as the name must be unique.  If you were to record multiple episodes of a program on the same date, you might get a collision with what you have proposed.

Ex.
The Carpenters Close to You & Christmas Memories (My Music Presents)_20191207_10301230
would become:
The Carpenters Close to You & Christmas Memories (My Music Presents)_S20191207E10301230

[pkscout]

I do something slightly more complicated with my Kodi integration script. Basically if there is no season/episode number in the guide my post processing script changes it to S00Exx and creates a .nfo file so that Kodi can import it into the library. I don't know if Plex uses .nfo files (or if it would matter), but maybe you can get some ideas from my script.

https://github.com/pkscout/trigger.kodiscan

[mvallevand]

Kodi has an advancedsetting.xml option to accept custom formats

Code:

<tvshowmatching action="prepend">
      <regexp>[\\/\._ -](20[0-9]{6})_.+\.ts</regexp>  <!-- Match NextPVR date as a season -->
    </tvshowmatching>

This tells Kodi that NextPVR files are TV Shows without renaming.

Plex might have something similar.

Martin

[bigoldboy]

Thanks for the input. I was hoping there was a checkbox somewhere that did this :-)

I will give it a shot.

[sub]

I was hoping there was a checkbox somewhere that did this :-)

Nope - if there was no season/episode numbers, it made no sense to make these types of file names.

[bigoldboy]

I was hoping there was a checkbox somewhere that did this :-)

Nope - if there was no season/episode numbers, it made no sense to make these types of file names.

Hmmm.  I am a big news fan. I like to record cable news which has not season/episode, but I want plex to see it. Would that not be a good reason to want a function like this?

I am just struggling how to rename the file using a batch file. The only python coding I do is in a kodi addon, but this has nothing to do with Kodi.

[sub]

Hmmm.  I am a big news fan. I like to record cable news which has not season/episode, but I want plex to see it. Would that not be a good reason to want a function like this?

I totally understand why you want it - I was just saying that when I implemented this stuff using 'season/episode naming' didn't make sense when you didn't have season/episode numbers, so I didn't implement a feature like that.

NextPVR v4 has reached the end of the road for new features. I can look into a feature like this in v5 though.

[mvallevand]

I totally think this is a question for the Plex forums.

Martin

[sub]

I am surprised Plex isn't able to handle different format names.