[primaeval]

Primaeval, thanks for all the hard work!

I set up a rule last night to always record a particular show.  Looks like it recorded 3 different episodes last night.  I'm wondering what I need to do so it only records first run episodes.  Is that possible?

Also I noticed it must not have grabbed the episode info because the test field on the left is not populated.  Is there anything I can do to fix that?

Thanks!

At the moment it will do an Always Record just based on the program title.
Some xmltv files have a [New] subscript that you could use.
If the new episode is always at a certain time you could do a Daily or Weekly Record.

If there is some special attribute in your xmltv that could be used, post an example xmltv file and I'll see if it could be added as a Setting option.
There is a lot of variation in how people make xmltv files.

This is all the information that is written into the json nfo file.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...in.py#L580
and this is the section that grabs the program information from the xmltv file.
https://github.com/primaeval/plugin.vide...n.py#L2992
What is missing?  

My xmltv format is below.  Season/episode is in parenthesis within the <desc> tag.  I did also notice not every program has a <desc> tag so it's possible the few shows I recorded last night just didn't have the tag there.  Presumably you grab the info in <desc>?

<programme start="20190408053000 -0400" stop="20190408060000 -0400" channel="E4" >
<title>Some Title</title>
<desc>Some description (S4 Ep14/24).</desc>
</programme>

Thanks,
Dan 

That's not even close to the xmltv format.
Some xmltv files have a <new> tag that could easily be read.
Others have an <episode-num> tag that can be parsed.
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVFormat

I don't think there is any way to reliably look for new episodes from your data.