Wow - thank you, Em Smith.
This development looks absolutely amazing.
Other than the fact that I was unable to specify which episodes to record, two things about my system remain problematic:
1. A news break, in the middle of a film, would often mean that I would only record the first half of it.
2. I like to watch recordings from "TV Series" in Kodi, rather than from the Recordings folder in the plugin. However, it is not uncommon for the Schedules Direct episode information to differ from that of the TVDB, so I either get informed that the wrong episode is there or (if the episode is not in the TVDB), I won't know it has been recorded at all.
Having just read your posts, your grabber seems to be absolutely perfect for me!
I am still pretty much a beginner, when it comes to Linux, so I still have to be spoon fed instructions, when it comes to these sorts of things.
I should have no problem in adding the new grabber and making it executable.
Em Smith wrote:
> # Backup your current .xmltv configuration from ~/.xmltv (since my version patches the DB to download artwork details);
> # Change the grabber to tv_grab_az_sdjson_sqlite (look for it in "path") in tvheadend's configuration->channel/epg->epg grabber modules, and add extra arguments of "--update-description-with-title" or "--update-description-with-all" (without the quotes) which has more description fixups such as adding year, age rating and stars. I'd also add "--artwork-max-width=720" to avoid slow artwork downloads so it becomes "--update-description-with-all --artwork-max-width=720 --merge-split=5";
> # ???
> # Profit.
Could you possibly clarify why I need to backup my current .xmltv configuration, please? Is this strictly necessary?
What are the next steps, ??? and Profit?
Sorry if I am being really thick with this, I still find programming with Linux a bit of a struggle :) .