GuidePlus for NPVR

[carpeVideo]

GuidePlus has been updated to work with NPVR. If you want it to autodetect series read the wiki and use the createNpvrTrigger argument once.

http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/GuidePlus

* First its a guide enhancer: it takes a schedules direct XML file (may work with other XML guides as well) and writes a new XML file with several enhancements for N/GBPVR.
* Second it is a file renamer: if shows have season/episode tags it groups those shows and renames the file of a show to include season episode info and episode title.
* Third it is a file mover: it moves series and movies into their own directories (on any location on your network) while updating the gbpvr/npvr database.

Guide plus does everything when you run your nightly epg update. This means that files will not be renamed or relocated immediately after they are recorded which is a slight disadvantage. However, guidePlus will do its thing (renaming, moving) for all files in the database, not just those recently created which is a great advantage. Have 300 recordings of series you would like renamed, run guidePlus!

[carpeVideo]

Release v.71:
Couple of renaming and series lookup bug fixes, a (US) in the series title on theTVdb.com increases series match score, updated to latest sqlite dll.

[johnsonx42]

just a question to clarify my understanding of this. I'm guessing this won't work with the now built-in Schedules Direct support, instead I'd have to go back to using an XML grabber, correct?

[carpeVideo]

I believe that is the case but I have not tried the built in schedules direct support since I have the xmltv working fine. If the schedules direct support downloads the xml, saves it somewhere and allows a batch file to be run and then reads in that file later from that location it may be possible to intervene between the download and read with guidePlus.

[carpeVideo]

Release .72
Discovered and fixed an issue with the NPVR code that made NPVR think a renamed series file was unavailable.

http://www.gbpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.ph...lity.VidImport

[carpeVideo]

This fix is required due to changes in the NPVR tables - also built into guidePlus (see below), for those willing to run some sort of sql manager use:

drop trigger "recordingInserted"

then recreate with

CREATE TRIGGER "recordingInserted" AFTER INSERT ON SCHEDULED_RECORDING BEGIN insert into RECORDED_EVENT
(oid, title, subtitle, description, start_time, end_time,
channel_oid, unique_id, rating, original_air_date, season, episode)
select oid, title, subtitle, description, start_time, end_time,
channel_oid, unique_id, rating, original_air_date, season, episode
from EPG_EVENT where new.name = EPG_EVENT.title and
EPG_EVENT.start_time = new.start_time and
EPG_EVENT.channel_oid = new.channel_oid;
END

or download the latest guidePlus and use the createNpvrTrigger argument and it will do it .

[mvallevand]

@carpeVidoe I like the idea of using guidePlus to move series/movies but I don't want it to do anything to the EPG, is that possible? Also can you configure the move to happen after a configured number of days. I guess a command line like this is what I'd like

guidePlus seriesDir=\\IP\Recordings MoviesDir=\\IP\Recordings days=10

Martin

[carpeVideo]

I think I can do that especially for the US where the ID typically begins with EP for series. The aging would not be a problem.

Give me a few days, a bit busy with two new little ones (and I don't mean MVP/NMTs :0)

You may even be able fake it out as is by feeding it a blank EPG to update and have it write the updated to a file that is not really read in by NPVR (without the aging of course.)

[mvallevand]

That would be great. I thought about faking it, but I figured I wouldn't need the trigger this way. Another "wish" if possible if you could also do a

 
UPDATE playback_position SET filename=new_name where filename = old_name

My resume points would be saved.

Thanks a lot.

Martin

[carpeVideo]

Ok, Martin - I am many months late but the latest guidePlus does what you asks and has an "archiveOnly" switch. With this switch if you set the series and movie dirs it will archive files older than archiveAge to the specified directories. If it is archiveOnly the file must have the naming convention sXXeXX for it to tell it is a series. In other words all files will go to the same location if they are not renamed using guidePlus or something else.

My setup is very simple - I alter the guide and rename so series have the season episode and subtitle in the filename, they are then archived after a few days to an unraid server with a Plex media server running. It works great for me as I never watch live TV on the NPVR box so I can use all my devices to watch my entire media archive including NPVR recordings.

CV