2014-10-26, 12:29
(2014-10-20, 08:22)phate89 Wrote: But I don't think it's a good thing to do since kodi doesn't update everytime the info but only once.This is a general issue/limitation, not related to missing episodes. Either way, fetching extra info is not necessary for the feature.
For example I'm Italian and if I scrape the whole series when I add the first episode I will get the info there are at the moment I scrape the first time. They might be incomplete (old/missing artwork, less episode votes missing translated episode/plot). Probably it's not a big deal for someone but for example for foreign users that wants localized plot and tiles (and maybe provide it theirself) it is..
(2014-10-20, 08:22)phate89 Wrote: I think it's possible to get it with an addon.As discussed to death in the other thread: it just such an ugly hack that will at best only work in some circumstance (thetvdb is not the only scraper you know. You'll have to reimplement the whole scraper system. Use may have overwritten scanner config, in which case the whole scanning approach will break down. To name a few). It' not good enough. And easier to implement in core anyway.
There are 2 options. The first is a plugin that shows a list of tv shows you have in the db. When you select a tv show it will get data from thetvdb, compare them with files available in the database and shows missing. This is strictly to see what files are missing and quite easy and faster.
The second one is trickier and probably requires helix (Gotham can't add sources from code).
Everytime after an update (or manually) the addon runs and search for missing files. If files are missing it creates dummy files in addon_data folder and it scrape that folder so you will have them directly in the database. The problem with this approach is that you run twice the scan and it's harder to build but it's a lot more powerful (for example you could add a tag to dummy episodes and filter them easily).
I might try to write something like this if I found some time but it's not easy