RC4 Praise and a couple questions (1 Viewer)

[tamvegas]

First off, Thank you for RC4! After having many issues with RC3 I had to roll back to RC2, which worked well. Now with RC4, everything is working great! No problems at all. Completely impressed with all functions. Background issues with PureVision skin, errant labels, MTV and Yahoo video having no stop or pause controls, etc, all gone. Many thanks! A donation is on it's way!

Now a couple questions:
1-Are there any tutorial/sample pages for parsing rules in MyTV Series? Over half of my recordings never match up, or match up incorrectly. I use ShedulesDirect service for USA OTA channels (all ATSC).

2-Can I set up MP to bring the system out of standby (sleep) to make recordings? Like have it wake up 1 or 2 minutes before a recording session is to start? I recovers perfectly from sleep when I use a keystroke to wake it up (another first). In fact it only takes about 10 to 20 seconds for everything to be good to go.

3-I have 2 other systems with MP installed as a client only. Is there any way (like with TVService BackupSettings) to back up my settings? Via plug-in or is it better to just copy the MP directory contents?

 

[corvy]

I cannot help you with 1 but I can try on the other two

2. Yes you can, powerscheduler plugin should be able to help you. Please look here
PowerScheduler - MediaPortal Manual Documentation

2. All the settings for TVserver is kept in the SQL database. If you need backup of the TVservice settings please back up the SQL database. Note that you can export the channel list, if you do this you also export all scheduled recordings and stuff. The rest of the TVserver settings is pretty quick to put in manually (I never backup tvserver database, only channellist and recordings).

Hope this helps a little.

 

[tamvegas]

Thanks Corvy.
I think recording during suspend is working now
Last night I tried enabling both wake up and suspend in PowerScheduler in TV Server and also in MP Config and this morning an overnight recording went correctly. Very pleased!

On question #1 (Parsing), I'm trying adding more fields to the file name options for recordings. We'll see if that helps in identifying them in MPTVSeries.