Create .nfo files when creating recordings.

A L · 2019-01-16T16:48:30+00:00

Is there any way that TVHeadend can save the EPG, associated with a recording, to a separate .nfo that can be saved in the same location as the .ts file? I...

Em Smith

I am wondering whether one of the Kodi Library Managers
https://kodi.wiki/view/Library_managers
will help with your file naming/nfo generation? Perhaps they have better algorithms for matching shows to metadata since they have to deal with badly named items?

A L

Thank you, both, for your further input on this.

A few further interesting developments:

According to the Kodi forum:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=339620

It does seem that the issue that I was dealing with has been raised as a bug. With a bit of luck, if they introduce folder watched statuses back into file mode, this would pretty much solve my problem.

I also spent the week messing around with Emby.

Initially, things went particularly well - it did seem to solve my issues. Files were added to the TV and Movie library without needing to be scraped (which was exactly what I was after), but then I started to get a few issues with the Emby server suddenly not being available.

I ended up uninstalling it again. It is a great piece of software but it did seem massively over-complicated/bloated for my setup and what I want to achieve.

I also did some testing with my Metadata idea above and, as you predicted Em, it did not quite work. None of the important additional information was included in the .mkv file, so I was no better off than having recorded it as a .ts file.

I wonder whether all I can do is just wait for the fix in Kodi - I seem to have exhausted all the reasonable options.

Em Smith

I'll add the link to the Kodi issue you mentioned:

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/15324

Though, that issue says "when content type is none." Do you get the same problem if you change the content type to "tv" and scraper to "local nfo" (of which you will have zero). You can still browse the file hierarchy but do you get the correct watch status?

There was another "just the filename" scraper that relied on a php script on localhost rather than Google, so perhaps that might also work better. I don't recall the name of the scraper though.

But, yes, looks like a frustrating week.

A L

Unfortunately, picking "TV" and "local nfo" makes no difference - still no watched status on folders.

I did actually have a go with "justthefilename" too - unfortunately, that only works with movies, rather than TV Shows. Furthermore, I did try it with some of my movies (just to see if it worked) and it kept stopping - something about problems with the remote server.

The search goes on - just typical! Trust me to find the only missing link in an otherwise perfect system :)

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