Keeping import series and movie of same name seperate

[tesla1886]

I have the movie and the series based of a movie on DVD and have imported them into NextPVR. Currently they are under the same group, is it possible to have the series and the movie under different groups, hopefully with out giving them different names?

Thank You

[mvallevand]

Yes, if you are using Schedules Direct and import using the XML file. Let me know and I can see if I can document it.

Martin

[tesla1886]

Yes, if you are using Schedules Direct and import using the XML file. Let me know and I can see if I can document it.

Martin

Yes I am using Schedules Direct and importing using an XML file I created. The name of the series and the movie are M*A*S*H.

[mvallevand]

Sorry I thought I replied could you upload the XML files and I can give you the answer

Martin

[tesla1886]

Sorry I thought I replied could you upload the XML files and I can give you the answer

Martin

No problem. I worked on other parts of my project.

I have one XML file for each season. M*A*S*H the series had 11 seasons, so I have 11 XML files + 1 for the movie for a total of 12. All are included in the attached zip file.

If I need to add, remove or change something in the XML files to make this happen I am ok with that, just let me know what I need to change.

[mvallevand]

OK, I thought you were using the single file export not sub's bulk format, but a similar solution.

The easy solution is just to add <UniqueID>MV001137770000</UniqueID> after the MD5 line in the XML file. I would also add the Movie genre but I was not able to figure out why sub is not seeing this as a Movie and adding the year.

You could add an unique id to each of the shows too, but that will probably not be that important. More importantly you are missing the Season/Episode information on each show. If you had used the single file format NextTool would have parsed that from the filename. I think Kodi does break that out from the filename if you use it.

Just in case, make sure NextPVR has access to the V drive too.

Martin

[mvallevand]

I figured out how to get the year to show on Movies, you do have the Movie genre but you also need to fake the original air date to be Jan, 1 of the year regardless of when it was released

I will have to make sure I have that rule in NextTool.

Martin

[tesla1886]

OK, I thought you were using the single file export not sub's bulk format, but a similar solution.

The easy solution is just to add <UniqueID>MV001137770000</UniqueID> after the MD5 line in the XML file.  I would also add the Movie genre but I was not able to figure out why sub is not seeing this as a Movie and adding the year.

I removed the movie by changing the name of the directory the movie is in and opening NextPVR and verifying the move is no longer available.

I opened the M*A*S*H Movie XML file in a text editor and added <UniqueID>MV001137770000</UniqueID> after the <MD5>.......</MD5>

The reimported the movie but it still shows in the same grouping as the series

You could add an unique id to each of the shows too, but that will probably not be that important.  More importantly you  are missing the Season/Episode information on each show.  If you had used the single file format NextTool would have parsed that from the filename.  I think Kodi does break that out from the filename if you use it.

Martin

Where did you get the UniqueID from. I researched it a while back but could find much.

I do not have the season and episode infor in the movie XML, but I do for each episode of the series.

Code:

<Season>01</Season>
      <Episode>01</Episode>

I figured out how to get the year to show on Movies, you do have the Movie genre but you also need to fake the original air date to be Jan, 1 of the year regardless of when it was released

I will have to make sure I have that rule in NextTool.

Martin

I am confussed with what you are saying about the movie year. It does appear in both NextPVR and the web app, I have not tried on the mobile app yet.

[mvallevand]

Yes sorry about the S/E point I must have missed it.  I have some tools for searching TMS data that I can't share.

Does your XML look like this? 

Code:

      <MD5>8hogjevlqM54yBmYDRf6Ng==</MD5>
      <UniqueID>MV001137770000</UniqueID>
    </Event>

What I was saying about the year was to get it showing the year with the title, I needed to add the genre Movie and make Jan 1, 1970 the original air date

Martin

[tesla1886]

Yes sorry about the S/E point I must have missed it.  I have some tools for searching TMS data that I can't share.

Does your XML look like this? 

Code:

      <MD5>8hogjevlqM54yBmYDRf6Ng==</MD5>
      <UniqueID>MV001137770000</UniqueID>
    </Event>

Yes it does. I have attached the updated XML file incase you wanted to verify.

What I was saying about the year was to get it showing the year with the title, I needed to add the genre  Movie and make Jan 1, 1970 the original air date

Martin

I don't need that, I am ok with it not displaying in that manner, unless it could create a problem at some point.