Functionality lost when updating to TVE3 (1 Viewer)

noonereallycares

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To get my new card tuner card working in MP, I have been forced to rebuild my system and use TVE3. The only functionality that I was missing was the ability to use the second tuner on my Hauppauge 2200, so I wasn't too thrilled by the idea of having to make the upgrade.

After installing the latest SVN of MP and TVE3, I have found a few features have disappeared.

The TVE3 client doesn't sort the TV guide in the order that the TVE3 does. This makes it harder to keep track of the channels and make sense of the order. This is made worse by the lack of channel name being displayed in the "Program Information" screen. In the case of channels that run duplicate programming, I use these secondary feeds to allow for an overlap in concurrent recordings. And even when I get to see the duplicate programs, I can't use an advanced recording to schedule a weekly recording.

In my previous setup, the XMLTV feed contained a set of duplicate channels (Seven 1, Seven 2, Seven 3). Even though the extra channels were hidden from the TV guide, the extra channels still appeared as alternate screening times for a given program. This meant that I could scroll down the list of "Upcoming episodes", highlight one of the secondary channels, then create and "Advanced record" entry.

In TVE3 client, I can't even select one of the secondary screening times. An advanced recording will only be created for the channel that appears in the TV guide.

Has anyone else noticed this change? Have I missed a setting somewhere?
 

ronilse

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    To get my new card tuner card working in MP, I have been forced to rebuild my system and use TVE3. The only functionality that I was missing was the ability to use the second tuner on my Hauppauge 2200, so I wasn't too thrilled by the idea of having to make the upgrade.

    After installing the latest SVN of MP and TVE3, I have found a few features have disappeared.

    The TVE3 client doesn't sort the TV guide in the order that the TVE3 does. This makes it harder to keep track of the channels and make sense of the order. This is made worse by the lack of channel name being displayed in the "Program Information" screen. In the case of channels that run duplicate programming, I use these secondary feeds to allow for an overlap in concurrent recordings. And even when I get to see the duplicate programs, I can't use an advanced recording to schedule a weekly recording.

    For sorting open TV Setup -> TV Channels -> TV Groups -> Mapping & Up down to sort channels.
    You can also remove all groups after sorting in TV Channels, make a new group & drag channels over it will then follow the order you have in TV Channels


    Regards
    Roy
     

    noonereallycares

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    For sorting open TV Setup -> TV Channels -> TV Groups -> Mapping & Up down to sort channels.
    You can also remove all groups after sorting in TV Channels, make a new group & drag channels over it will then follow the order you have in TV Channels


    Regards
    Roy

    Thanks. I knew some of the problems would be user error ;)

    As for the Program Information page... The skin definitely contains a label for the channel name, but is it possible that the client is not being sent the information?
     

    Liquidtouch

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    I also found scheduling weekly recordings was gone and could not find how to do it. I noticed that you get more options for this if you do a search for the show and then when it gives you the results try recording from there. You can set various weekly recording options. I have not tested if they work this way.

    Why is this the only way to schedule weekly recordings? Is it a bug? or just a quirk of TV-Server?
     

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