For The Record - The rule-based scheduling suite (9 Viewers)

[dvdfreak]

I have been using this for a few days now........

I have noticed that some entries in the 'Recorded Programs' window show that they are still recording (I think thats what the red dot means). One has been recording for 2 days

Recording stop in details shows 'Recording....'

I noticed this too. My TVE3 plugin hooks up to the TVE3 end-recording event to notify TV Scheduler the recording has ended. Apparently this event is not always sent

Fortunately this is relatively harmless. I do need to know if the recording has ended to know if I can add the episode title to the list of successfully recorded episodes.

Anyone any ideas what side-effect causes TVE3 not to send the end-recording event?

EDIT: I looked at my plugin code and there may be a situation in which I would skip the end-recording event, so I'm going to change the code slightly to take this into account. Perhaps this will be enough to fix the problem.

 

[Midget]

I noticed this too.

Me too. I've manually modified the db without harm

 

[StaticMan]

What about the option to record a max of one airing per day of a series (Quite handy when I used to use MCE)?

 

[dvdfreak]

What about the option to record a max of one airing per day of a series (Quite handy when I used to use MCE)?

How would that work? Per channel? Just the first showing with a certain title? Why not use the "Around time" rule then? Isn't that going to be much more accurate than just take the first showing at any time?

 

[dvdfreak]

[size=+1]UPDATE ALERT[/size]

I just uploaded a new release!

Release 1.0.0.8 (November 28th, 2007)

Changes since the previous release:

• Implemented secure HTTP channel for remote clients. Now you can safely access your schedules from anywhere in the world!
• TVE3 plugin now always automatically links channels on their display name.
• Added "Search TV Guide" panel to the management console.
• Added "Guide Channels" administration panel to the management console.
• Small fix to TVE3 plugin's end-recording handling.

PS: if you are using the TVE3 plugin, stop the TVService or disable the plugin, install new TV Scheduler, copy over the new TVE3 plugin DLLs, and then restart TVService or re-enable the plugin.

 

[StaticMan]

What about the option to record a max of one airing per day of a series (Quite handy when I used to use MCE)?

How would that work? Per channel? Just the first showing with a certain title? Why not use the "Around time" rule then? Isn't that going to be much more accurate than just take the first showing at any time?

Well I guess I should ask the question - I use the EPG import so I don't get the rerun flag. What would happen if a show which is normally on at 8 has shows on at 8, 9 and 10 one night (9 and 10 would be reruns)? Would it record all them if I use the around 8 logic?

Another question. When the plugin syncs the EPG every 24 hours... When is 24 hours? Is the time stamp from when I enable the plugin? Can this be configurable so I can set it for 3AM when the computer is idle?

 

[dvdfreak]

Well I guess I should ask the question - I use the EPG import so I don't get the rerun flag. What would happen if a show which is normally on at 8 has shows on at 8, 9 and 10 one night (9 and 10 would be reruns)? Would it record all them if I use the around 8 logic?

No, only a single show will be recorded. The one closest to the time you gave as "around time".

Another question. When the plugin syncs the EPG every 24 hours... When is 24 hours? Is the time stamp from when I enable the plugin? Can this be configurable so I can set it for 3AM when the computer is idle?

Yes, it's the start-timestamp. And yes, it would make sense for me to make this configurable, I'll change that in a following release.

BTW, do you still have your startup problem with the new version I uploaded (so without XMLTV)? I changed the XMLTV import thread to wait for 5 seconds on startup, and only then start to do its work (giving the service itself ample to time to be fully up and running). Don't know if this helps, but I thought it was worth a try

 

[Midget]

• Added "Search TV Guide" panel to the management console.

Installed new version: no problems so far

I've played a bit with the new search feature... it's useful, but I still miss a global list of programs without repetitions.

The best would be a "What's new on TV?" highlight... "new" compared to last tv guide import or (probably better) compared to last time the user reset the highlight.

Bye

 

[StaticMan]

BTW, do you still have your startup problem with the new version I uploaded (so without XMLTV)? I changed the XMLTV import thread to wait for 5 seconds on startup, and only then start to do its work (giving the service itself ample to time to be fully up and running). Don't know if this helps, but I thought it was worth a try

There's something really weird going on. After I got 1.0.7 working I noticed that it took a long time to start up after rebooting Windows. I said screw it and reinstalled XP from scratch, didn't fix it.

So here's some bizzarre info...
Without TvS installed (1.0.7 or 1.0.8, no difference) everything boots up fast and normal.
With TvS installed my network connection takes about 3 minutes to start (Can't use the internet). If I look in services, I see TvS as "Starting" and System Restore Service as "Stopping". After the 3 minutes, The system tray icon for Windows Security does a quick flash and eveything is good afterwards. Also, during the first 3 minutes I can't access my Windows Firewall. It just says I have an unrecognized error when I try to start the app.

After the 3 minutes everything works fine. If I uninstall TvS everything work fine right after a boot. I see this with 1.0.7 and 1.0.8 with both my XP installs. The Event Viewer gives me no indication of what the problem is.

No idea.

 

[blackpaw]

Experimenting with TvScheduler - a much overdue plugin for MEdiaPortal, that feature is on my *must* have list.

A question - does it perfrom a two way schedule sync? I notice that records scheduled in TVScheduler appear fairly rapidly but the reverse does not seem to happen at all.

Thanks - Lindsay