2016-01-22, 22:12
I have a few questions about this addon. First off. Amazing. I will be honest. I tried the PseudoLibrary one first. I finally got the streams working but when I added the playon source and added it to videos and the shows never showed up in the TV Shows section. Oh well. This one is doing just as I hoped. I like the fact that I can run it from anywhere too. Here are all my questions:
1. I added a show (Let's say Scorpion for example). I added it from my PlayOn upnp source and then I added it from my USTVVOD source. It's great that since I did it that way, it didn't duplicate. There was a show or 2 missing from the USTVVOD addon but was in the Playon so the episode list was complete. The question is. Which one takes priority if both (or multiple) addons have the same episode. When I click the show in the library, which source is it going to play from? Is it the order that they are in the config file? I noticed I went to play an episode of something from the list and it never would play. I went to USTVVOD (ok, im going to just call it ustv so i don't have to type it every time lol) and it didn't play but when I went to Playon it did. Im assuming the episode in the library was playing from the ustv source then. It would be cool if it had some sort of timeout feature where it would roll over to the next source if it didn't start playing or errored withing a set amount of time and so on. (If you even store both streams that is).
2. Sometimes a show will become unavailable, usuall it's dropping off due to be on there for a certain time. That's fine. I saw the setting that checks for that and deletes it after so many days. But what if I have multiple sources for that show? If Playon has it and ustv has it but ustv drops it after a month but its still viewable through playon, Is your config going to see it not working for the set amount of days and remove it completely or will the playone one repopulate in the episodes list? See what I am getting at?
3. There are a couple of shows that aren't showing album art. Scorpion for one. Is that an issue from the source plugin (eg. PlayOn) or are you grabbing the cover art?
4. Most of the paths are ok. I can put something like "FOX/All Shows/The Grinder/Full Episodes" and be ok. But a few of them on CBS are like "CBS/All Shows/The Big Bang Theory/Full Episodes Season 9" in order for it to work. I tried ending it like CBS/All Shows/The Big Band Theory" and in the config I put a filter for the show length to be at least 10 min. I figured this would, for the most part, get me full episodes and no clips. Nothing showed in the Library. When I looked in the dropbox folder I saw a folder with a couple of folders in it. They were something like Clips and Full Episodes. Anyway. I''l try to reproduce it if that doesn't make sense.
5. There are a few live feeds possible in PlayOn such as tbs, usa, and abc family. Is there a way that anyone is doing to create streams of those from the playon upnp source and add them to live tv. Maybe this one should be in a new post.
6. Lastly, I have an issue with a couple of shows. Scorpion for one. I have the right path. "CBS/All Shows/Scropion/Free Episodes" but when I look in the dropbox folder I don't see a folder marked Scorpion but a folder called Free Episodes and if I look in there then I see the strm files for Scorpion. I'm also just realizing (Lightbulb!) that I think these are the ones that don't have the cover art that I was referring to earlier.
7. Oh!...lastly...lastly. I keep coming back to Kodi after piddling with this and rerunning the script time and time again and the view is incorrect in my library. I am going the TV Shows section and I have it set to Icons and it's like that for a while but then I go back and it's on Media 2. Once I click on a show to see the episodes then I like the Media 2 but not at the start. These used to be separate. Is it changeing everything to Media 2 when I change it in the episodes subsection or is this somehow being defaulted back to a view when the script runs? I know, it's a stretch.
1. I added a show (Let's say Scorpion for example). I added it from my PlayOn upnp source and then I added it from my USTVVOD source. It's great that since I did it that way, it didn't duplicate. There was a show or 2 missing from the USTVVOD addon but was in the Playon so the episode list was complete. The question is. Which one takes priority if both (or multiple) addons have the same episode. When I click the show in the library, which source is it going to play from? Is it the order that they are in the config file? I noticed I went to play an episode of something from the list and it never would play. I went to USTVVOD (ok, im going to just call it ustv so i don't have to type it every time lol) and it didn't play but when I went to Playon it did. Im assuming the episode in the library was playing from the ustv source then. It would be cool if it had some sort of timeout feature where it would roll over to the next source if it didn't start playing or errored withing a set amount of time and so on. (If you even store both streams that is).
2. Sometimes a show will become unavailable, usuall it's dropping off due to be on there for a certain time. That's fine. I saw the setting that checks for that and deletes it after so many days. But what if I have multiple sources for that show? If Playon has it and ustv has it but ustv drops it after a month but its still viewable through playon, Is your config going to see it not working for the set amount of days and remove it completely or will the playone one repopulate in the episodes list? See what I am getting at?
3. There are a couple of shows that aren't showing album art. Scorpion for one. Is that an issue from the source plugin (eg. PlayOn) or are you grabbing the cover art?
4. Most of the paths are ok. I can put something like "FOX/All Shows/The Grinder/Full Episodes" and be ok. But a few of them on CBS are like "CBS/All Shows/The Big Bang Theory/Full Episodes Season 9" in order for it to work. I tried ending it like CBS/All Shows/The Big Band Theory" and in the config I put a filter for the show length to be at least 10 min. I figured this would, for the most part, get me full episodes and no clips. Nothing showed in the Library. When I looked in the dropbox folder I saw a folder with a couple of folders in it. They were something like Clips and Full Episodes. Anyway. I''l try to reproduce it if that doesn't make sense.
5. There are a few live feeds possible in PlayOn such as tbs, usa, and abc family. Is there a way that anyone is doing to create streams of those from the playon upnp source and add them to live tv. Maybe this one should be in a new post.
6. Lastly, I have an issue with a couple of shows. Scorpion for one. I have the right path. "CBS/All Shows/Scropion/Free Episodes" but when I look in the dropbox folder I don't see a folder marked Scorpion but a folder called Free Episodes and if I look in there then I see the strm files for Scorpion. I'm also just realizing (Lightbulb!) that I think these are the ones that don't have the cover art that I was referring to earlier.
7. Oh!...lastly...lastly. I keep coming back to Kodi after piddling with this and rerunning the script time and time again and the view is incorrect in my library. I am going the TV Shows section and I have it set to Icons and it's like that for a while but then I go back and it's on Media 2. Once I click on a show to see the episodes then I like the Media 2 but not at the start. These used to be separate. Is it changeing everything to Media 2 when I change it in the episodes subsection or is this somehow being defaulted back to a view when the script runs? I know, it's a stretch.
