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fwfa · (This post was last modified: 2015-01-03, 17:17 by fwfa.)

I am sorry if this question has already been posted. I did look for a couple of hours but I think the short EPG search term made it tough to find the answer.

I noticed that in the standard WMC Guide the aired dates of Movies and Shows are listed below the name in the description. Is there anyway I can turn this date on in Kodi EPG? Right now I am using the Confluence Skin.

Thank you for the excellent plug-in!!

krustyreturns · 2015-01-03, 20:03

Thanks. The display of air dates in the guide is a skin dependent thing, we can't control that in the addon. All I can tell you is that we pass these times onto kodi for each show/movie, hopefully there is a skin out there that will give you what you want.

fwfa · 2015-01-05, 15:35

Thank you for the reply!! I am glad to hear the data is passed on to Kodi...I will now go through the skins and see if there is an option.

Thanks again for the super plug-in!!

giant25 · 2015-01-06, 01:47

I haven't seen this option in the plug-in and this is something I would also love to see as well. I'm also using Confluence. Any idea on the best way to try to get something like this added?

krustyreturns · 2015-01-06, 19:20

I agree that this should be there, either as an option, or maybe by default. I plan to put this into the next release either way.

giant25 · 2015-01-07, 01:29

Thanks Krusty. Are you planning to put this into the next addon release or Confluence skin release?

krustyreturns · 2015-01-07, 04:20

Sorry I made a mistake. I thought this was the thread about searching by genre. That's what I get for trying to answer too many threads to quickly. I'm afraid I am back to what I originally said: this needs to be supported in the skin and we don't so skins. Sorry again for the confusion.

giant25 · 2015-01-07, 04:52

OK, that's what I thought, thanks. I'm gonna head over to the skins section and see what transpires. I'm a daily server.wmc user and am very happy with it. Thanks for your hard work.

User 188441 · 2015-01-09, 19:19

I believe the Epg Air Date is stored FirstAired in kodi but i have never been able to get it to display. I can see the iFirstAired is populated in the database but it just does not work.

krustyreturns · 2015-01-09, 19:39

I didn't realize he was talking about what wmc calls the 'original air date'. So I had to check to refresh my memory, and found that we do send this back to kodi - so data should be there.

User 188441 · 2015-01-09, 20:10

(2015-01-09, 19:39)krustyreturns Wrote: I didn't realize he was talking about what wmc calls the 'original air date'. So I had to check to refresh my memory, and found that we do send this back to kodi - so data should be there.

Yeah, is definitely transferred as i can see it in the Epg DB but i just can't get it to display. Seems like its a problem with kodi not serverwmc.

scarecrow420 · (This post was last modified: 2015-01-10, 01:06 by scarecrow420.)

It may be similar to the EPG images where although there was a field that addons populated, it wasnt stored in the database OR transferred when copying EPG_INFO tags in the Kodi code. I fixed those on the Kodi side for I**** (post helix version). So even if this FirstAired is in the database it may not be being transferred when copying EPG_INFO tags in the code, meaning it ends up blank and a skin can't display it. I'll have a look when I get time

scarecrow420 · (This post was last modified: 2015-01-12, 17:16 by scarecrow420.)

So i had a look at the Kodi code tonight and found that the EPG Item "FirstAired" field is saved to/loaded from the database OK and it is even transferred in the EPG_INFO tag... however it is not in the GUIManager class which is where skins get their labels for display. In other words, there is currently no way to get it to be presented on a skin.

I have submitted a PR for Kodi 15 to add this field to GUIManager. Similar to "FirstAired" property on Video items, the skin label is "premiered" so something like $INFO[ListItem.Premiered] will now show this field. Bear in mind that anything that WMC doesnt have a valid date for, we just populate with the StartTime of the EPG item so this may or may not be any good. My Australian OTA for example doesnt seem to have ANY "first aired" dates populated by WMC so they are always the start time of the EPG entry, even if there are clearly other occurences of that episode/show/etc on earlier timeslots. But perhaps those of you with downloaded EPG data etc will have better data here

Here is the pull request if you want to keep an eye on it: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/6193

krustyreturns · 2015-01-12, 20:37

That field is available in my downloaded data at least. Thanks scarecrow.