PlayList_Manager & Record_This - Page 8

Allen, if I don't enter the "Styles" then I don't get a file name. I get something like D:\\Recordings\\MyHD\\.tp. If I enter the "Styles" then it works as expected.

I'm a little confuses about why we need to add the "Styles" in the INI file when they are specified exactly the same in the registry.

A question:
Is there a way to specify to record a rerun for a particular show but not for others that are reruns?

I tried using the "notseen" option like this:
>> local MYHD ant1
Alias
Bones
Charmed
Ghost Whisperer
Invasion
Medium
Nova
Surface
Smallville
Veronica Mars
>> notseen
Farscape

but it doesn't do what I though it does.

I guess I don't understand how to use the "notseen" and "shownotseen" options.

Seems like my settings were messed up a little.

RESCAP_FILENAMESTYLE = 0
RESCAP_FILENAMESTYLE_TITAN = 1
RESCAP_SUB_DIRECTORY_STYLE = 6
RESCAP_SUB_DIRECTORY_STYLE_TITAN = 6

So while the RESCAP_FILENAMESTYLE = 0 gave me a file name with an extension only (.tp), I should have gotten the directory name which was missing. I should have gotten something like this then: d:\
ecordings\\myhd\\farscape\\.tp

I have manually updated the RESCAP_FILENAMESTYLE to be 1. I don't know if 0 was the default value or if I had changed it at one time experimenting.

Another issue:
I tried using "tomorrow" instead of "today" at around 11:20pm. I thought it would return programming for the next day but did not. A clip of the output is below. Notice instead of returning the day of the 22, it started at the 20th and gave the day for the 21st.

01/21/06 23:17:00 Record_This: Run date/time 2006/01/21 23:17:00
01/21/06 23:17:00 Record_This: Recording date 2006/01/22
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/20 23:35 0:06 ???????? Nightline
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 0:06 1:06 20060120 Jimmy Kimmel Live
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 1:06 1:21 20060120 PGA Tour Wrap-Up
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 1:21 1:30 ???????? Paid Programming
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 1:30 2:00 ???????? Paid Programming
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 2:00 2:30 ???????? Paid Programming
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 2:30 3:00 ???????? Paid Programming
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KATUDT 2006/01/21 3:00 3:30 ???????? Paid Programming
.
.
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01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KWBPDT 2006/01/21 22:00 22:30 ???????? NewsChannel 8 on Portland's WB at 10pm
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KWBPDT 2006/01/21 22:30 23:00 20000417 The King of Queens
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KWBPDT 2006/01/21 23:00 23:30 20000730 Sex and the City
01/21/06 23:17:00 Check_Program: KWBPDT 2006/01/21 23:30 0:00 20060121 Girls Behaving Badly
Done

In order to get 2 days of data from zap2it I used the following argument for the bat file.

xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --days 2 --output oneday.xml

this told it to pull 2 days of data from zap2it.
Hope this helps.

Troy

Are you writing your settings to these registry keys, or are you taking these settings from these keys to use in your actual "RESERVATION_INFO_VCH_xxx" capture entry???

How about:
1) INI file entries (these override entries in the registry)
2) TitanTV registry entries
3) Standard entries
4) Failure

Of course if one of the INI\\TitanTV\\Standard entries doesn't make sense, like the filename being type "NONE", then move on to the next option until failure.

I get carried away sometimes. What you've done should work fine.


Getting 2 days does work. I'll stick with using "today" though. I don't have any networked MyHD machines but do use Task Scheduler. As a mater of fact I have Record_This run on Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sun and MyHDAuto run on Tue, Thur, and Sat so I can test both at the same time.

Allen,

OK I guess I'm too stupid. I don't understand how to use these options.

ShowNotSeen - what's suppose to be in the not seen file?
NotSeen - what exactly does this option do? In the .INI file you say you saw this feature mentioned in a discussion but the feature is not described in the .INI file!

Below is a list of my programs. Stargate Atlantis is a repeat but I want to record it tonight. Charmed has a repeat that I don't want to record AND a new episode that I do. Smallville is a repeat I don't want to record. What options do I need to add to my list to make this work?

>> local MYHD ant1
Alias
Bones
Charmed
Ghost Whisperer
Invasion
Medium
Nova
Surface
Smallville
Veronica Mars
Stargate Atlantis

Allen, He is talking about my app that I PM'ed you and a couple of others about....

OK I was able to get what I wanted by doing the following:

>> local MYHD ant1
Alias
Bones
Charmed
Ghost Whisperer
Invasion
Medium
Nova
Surface
Smallville
Veronica Mars
>> reruns
Stargate Atlantis

Note however while this did schedule Charmed (new show) and Atlantis (repeat) these two shows are both on at 8:00pm and are in conflict. One of these shows should not have been sheduled. My preference would be that the rerun would not be scheduled if there is a conflict with a new show.

BTW, I still don't understand what NotSeen and ShowNotSeen do.

Allen,

Would it be possible to get a:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Scheduling a NEW episode of Charmed on KWBPDT 1/22 20:00 till 21:00 or 60 minutes
so that a NEW episode sticks out in the log file? I have my batch file run notepad so that I can see the log file after each run in order to check what's going on. Also a space between each program check would make reading easier too.

A clip of my log file appears below with the additions.

My .BAT file:
cd c:\\HDTV_Tools\\XMLTV\\xmltv-0.5.42-win32
del oneday.xml
xmltv tv_grab_na_dd --days 1 --output oneday.xml

cd c:\\HDTV_Tools\\Record_This
del myhd_log.txt
record_this.exe myhd_log.txt

start notepad myhd_log.txt


01/22/06 12:36:49 Record_This: Run date/time 2006/01/22 12:36:49
01/22/06 12:36:49 Record_This: Recording date 2006/01/22

01/22/06 12:36:49 Check_Program: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Scheduling a rerun Stargate Atlantis on KPDXDT 1/22 0:00 till 1:00 or 60 minutes
01/22/06 12:36:49 Find_Slot_For_Schedule_Entry: Schedule slot 0
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: Input 0 PhyCh 48 VirCh 49 SubCh 1 DateMode 0
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: 2006/01/22 start 0:00 stop 1:00 Week 1 FileType 2 TunerInputMode 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: DefaultfileName 1 FileName D:\\Recordings\\MyHD\\Stargate Atlantis\\200601220000.tp FileNameStyle 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: DirStyle 6 ChNum ChName KPDXDT title Stargate Atlantis

01/22/06 12:36:49 Check_Program: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Scheduling a rerun Stargate Atlantis on KPDXDT 1/22 20:00 till 21:00 or 60 minutes
01/22/06 12:36:49 Find_Slot_For_Schedule_Entry: Schedule slot 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: Input 0 PhyCh 48 VirCh 49 SubCh 1 DateMode 0
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: 2006/01/22 start 20:00 stop 21:00 Week 1 FileType 2 TunerInputMode 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: DefaultfileName 1 FileName D:\\Recordings\\MyHD\\Stargate Atlantis\\200601222000.tp FileNameStyle 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: DirStyle 6 ChNum ChName KPDXDT title Stargate Atlantis

01/22/06 12:36:49 Check_Program: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Skipping rerun Smallville on KWBPDT 1/22 16:00 till 17:00 or 60 minutes

01/22/06 12:36:49 Check_Program: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Skipping rerun Charmed on KWBPDT 1/22 17:00 till 18:00 or 60 minutes

01/22/06 12:36:49 Check Program: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Scheduling a NEW episode of Charmed on KWBPDT 1/22 20:00 till 21:00 or 60 minutes
01/22/06 12:36:49 Find_Slot_For_Schedule_Entry: Schedule slot 2
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: Input 0 PhyCh 33 VirCh 32 SubCh 1 DateMode 0
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: 2006/01/22 start 20:00 stop 21:00 Week 1 FileType 2 TunerInputMode 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: DefaultfileName 1 FileName D:\\Recordings\\MyHD\\Charmed\\200601222000.tp FileNameStyle 1
01/22/06 12:36:49 Schedule_Program: DirStyle 6 ChNum ChName KWBPDT title Charmed

Done

Just an FYI,

Record_This will add reservations that have already passed. While this doesn't harm anything (MyHD won't display them in the reservation list because the reservation has already passed) it does eat up a reservation slot until the next day when it is automatically cleared by the MyHD software. There are 50 reservation slots so running out of reservation slots isn't likely to be a problem.

Only scheduling from the current time and on would be more efficient. Again not a big deal.

Sorry I forgot about that post.

I think part of the problem I was having was misunderstanding what you where trying to say.

For example:
"Setting NotSeen causes RT to keep track of every scheduled show and its date. It also turns on Rerun so reruns will be ignored."

Saying that Rerun gets turned ON so that reruns will be ignored didn't make any sense to me until I realized what you meant was that the Rerun LOGIC is turned on but the Rerun option is really off.

Here is my log file. ScheduleConflicts was OFF.

 

myhd_log.zip 4.232421875k . file

I've been all over the TV listings at ZAP2IT and can't figure out how to download the XML or program that creates it. I'm usually not this helpless but darn if I can find it!

Link to XMLTV.