[Chychy]

I'm currently on the release branch, I don't see the "utc2local" fix on the db branch

The dates on my xmltv file are local dates (+0200), in the previous case :

xml:
<programme start="20180325112000 +0200" stop="20180325122500 +0200" showview="" channel="channel_id">

I will try to create some file to see if it's correctly executed

[primaeval]

I had automatic updates turned on and a kodi restart wiped out that utc fix. It should be in the db branch now.

Is the xml date the actual local time or does the +0200 need to be added on?
I had a lot of problems with that in TV Guide Fullscreen.
People interpret what it should mean differently.

[Chychy]

I installed the DB version (from zip), but I have an error about missing table (streams), did I miss something ?

About the date, it's correct "20180325112000 +0200" meaning "20180325092000 +0000", 11:20 CET, 09:20 UTC

For the command, it looks executed, there is the call and arguments :

Code:


RunScript(special://profile/addon_data/plugin.video.iptv.recorder/jobs/407cd60f-301a-11e8-8491-95f3908215f0.py)
['/data/data/org.xbmc.kodi/ffmpeg', '-i', 'http://path_to_ts.ts\r', '-y', '-t', '1562', '-c', 'copy', 'smb://path_to_storage/Channel+-+Program%5BCR%5D%5BCOLOR+grey%5D2018-03-25+12%3A25%3A00+-+2018-03-25+13%3A10%3A00%5B%2FCOLOR%5D.ts']


Are the "\r" and tags on the path valid ?

Code:

Channel - Program[CR][COLOR grey]2018-03-25 12:25:00 - 2018-03-25 13:10:00[/COLOR].ts

[primaeval]

The streams table should get made from the m3u file in the xmltv file.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...in.py#L907
Use something like this to have a look in the xmltv.db file.
http://sqlitebrowser.org/

The date is in the confusing format where the timezone shouldn't be added to the date.
Some people do it as a utc date and the timezone needs adding on.
This code has added it.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...in.py#L852
Maybe it needs a settings switch to say which method to use.

The \r shouldn't be in there. I just assumed \n.
It needs a strip() function to clean them up.
In fact that might be ending the command to ffmpeg so it only gets

Code:

/data/data/org.xbmc.kodi/ffmpeg', '-i', 'http://path_to_ts.ts

[Chychy]

The xmltv.db file is empty (0B)

I reloaded all channels and EPG, same error and empty file

Maybe the "xmltv" method is not called if I use PVR's files ?

[primaeval]

You need to make sure Service at Login is turned on in the settings.
I've changed the default from off to on.

Follow the service.py service routine.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...ver.py#L34
There are some log statements in there already.
I haven't defined log() in that file.

That runs the full_service() function in main.py which runs xmltv().
Make sure both of them are getting called with some more log() calls.

[primaeval]

The delay is now seconds. Not minutes.
Make sure you give it enough time for IPTV Simple Client to download any xmltv/m3u files if that is what it does.

[Chychy]

The xmltv method wasn't called, fixed with the configuration changes

Unfortunatly, followed by another error

Code:


15:09:42.691 T:18446744073027115312   ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
                                             - NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
                                            Error Type: <class 'sqlite3.ProgrammingError'>
                                            Error Contents: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.
                                            Traceback (most recent call last):
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.iptv.recorder/main.py", line 1319, in <module>
                                                plugin.run()
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.xbmcswift2/lib/xbmcswift2/plugin.py", line 332, in run
                                                items = self._dispatch(self.request.path)
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.module.xbmcswift2/lib/xbmcswift2/plugin.py", line 306, in _dispatch
                                                listitems = view_func(**items)
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.iptv.recorder/main.py", line 930, in full_service
                                                xmltv()
                                              File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/plugin.video.iptv.recorder/main.py", line 1124, in xmltv
                                                conn.execute("INSERT OR IGNORE INTO channels(id, name, icon) VALUES(?, ?, ?)", [id, name, icon])
                                            ProgrammingError: You must not use 8-bit bytestrings unless you use a text_factory that can interpret 8-bit bytestrings (like text_factory = str). It is highly recommended that you instead just switch your application to Unicode strings.
                                            -->End of Python script error report<--


I fixed that by using ".decode('utf8')" on strings that can contain special characters (name, title, sub_title...), I can create a PR for that is that method OK for you

But after the import, my channel list is empty in the addon, the database contains channels & programs, might be an issue with linking LiveTV channels ?

[primaeval]

Thanks. I've had endless *fun* with python and utf8.
A pull request would be good.

[Chychy]

Encoding issue are a pain

Unfortunatly, there are a lot of special characters in my language, but on the other hand it's easier to find the encoding errors

[primaeval]

Thanks for your help. It has always been a pain to go from xml to python to sql to http and back again and deal with all the encoding schemes and unicode.

Could you have a look at the new code to show Now and Next playing programs.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...d1935dR885
It works for the UTC dates in my location but I haven't worked out if it will work in others.
If the timezone of xml is specified as a string instead of an offset we need to use pytz conversion but I'm not sure how exactly. It makes my head hurt.

[Chychy]

I made some tests without special characters, recording still doesn't work

I have multiple ffmpeg task, all of them are in a "do_exit" state / zombie

Code:


u0_a64    9887  9726  0      0        do_exit 00000000 Z ffmpeg
u0_a64    9988  9726  0      0        do_exit 00000000 Z ffmpeg
u0_a64    10191 9726  0      0        do_exit 00000000 Z ffmpeg
u0_a64    10344 9726  0      0        do_exit 00000000 Z ffmpeg
u0_a64    10417 9726  0      0        do_exit 00000000 Z ffmpeg


There is the launch command :

['/data/data/org.xbmc.kodi/ffmpeg', '-i', u'http://path_to_ts.ts', '-y', '-t', '1056', '-c', 'copy', 'smb://path_to_record/Channel+-+Prog%5BCR%5D%5BCOLOR+grey%5D2018-03-25+17%3A35%3A00+-+2018-03-25+18%3A30%3A00%5B%2FCOLOR%5D.ts']

Everthing looks good, if it's the "u" prepending the path to stream

On the UI side, everything is OK, there is "just" no recorded file

By the way, I had an error on record startup as there is a "refresh" parameters and a call to a "refresh" function (same name), had to rename the parameter to something like "refreshAfter"

[primaeval]

It might be the smb path.
ffmpeg doesn't know how to translate the smb path into something it can write to.
It is more of a shortcut in Kodi.
I ran into that once.
Try a local folder first then mount the smb share somewhere ffmpeg has write permission to.

You'll probably have to experiment on a rooted Android device to find the path that ffmpeg can cope with or at least use adb to get a shell.

[Chychy]

It was that, it's working with local record
So I need to figure a way to mount network (and make it work on reboot), I don't have a sufficent local storage to allow local recording

There is a way to play the .ts file before the record is finished ? Mainly to avoid having 2 streaming source (which can be difficult with some network like mine)

I found that about ffmepg : https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-protocols.html#libsmbclient
It's shouldnt' be able to use smb path ?

[primaeval]

It might just need the user:password adding to the url. Kodi keeps its own smb credentials in a file somewhere in the userdata folder.
Try modifying the path. You can just try a dummy test path to see if that is the problem.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...in.py#L377
We can add settings for user and password if necessary.

I think I tried things like using NFS servers on Windows and even SFTP ones.
The most reliable way is to get a big usb drive or at least one big enough to store a few programs.