Filename Date & Time Format

andrew miller

My family are finding it hard to determine the time/date or recordings based on the default setting of tvheadend, its putting the programme name followed by time and date with dashed separating the minute and hour, and dashes separating the day/month/year, but then it sticks the time and date right next to each other with no separation.

is there a way I can make the file names more windows format friendly, with spaces between programme name and time and date???

ProfYaffle

You can play around with the custom format in the appropriate recording profile.

The default is $c/$t%F%R$-e$n.$x, which expands to:

Channel_name/Event_titleDate_in_ISO_format24_hr_time-partial_file_number.extension

From the documentation:

> The format strings $t,$s,%e,$c also have delimiter variants such as $ t (space after the dollar character), $-t, $_t, $.t, $,t, $;t. In these cases, the delimiter is applied only when the substituted string is not empty.

In other words, changing $-e in the string to, say, $ e should give you a space delimiter instead of a hyphen. Similarly, you can try simply inserting spaces, e.g. %F %R to separate the date and time, or %F_%R to avoid spaces (which can confuse things for some applications/OSes).