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scarecrow420 · 2014-06-05, 01:03

Unfortunately that isnt possible to do in the current framework. Reason is, that the search is implemented within XBMC using the EPG data that it has. We simply feed the EPG to XBMC when it loads up (and periodically rescans). In other words, the Search commands do not go to the ServerWMC backend, so you can only search what is displayed/known to XBMC.

advocate99 · (This post was last modified: 2014-06-05, 02:22 by advocate99.)

For the reasons Scarecrow indicated, you may wish to post your request using the following thread (see link below), which will reach the devs responsible for the PVR section of XBMC...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=175135

(2014-06-05, 00:57)mlu3141 Wrote: I apologize if this has already been requested or is an issue for XBMC proper, but I'd like the ability to search several days of TV listings while only pulling a day or so on my EPG. I run this on my Amazon Fire TV where it works great except that if I set the EPG to longer than a day or so, it takes a very long time to load. However, if I shorten the EPG, I am limited in my search returns. This is a minor annoyance if I want to, say, record a show that's airing on a Friday, but I'm looking for it on a Tuesday. Since it seems this program pulls the EPG from WMC, would it be possible to search the listings on WMC and not just what is pulled to XBMC?

Thanks! I really love being able to access so much from one very small box.

mlu3141 · 2014-06-05, 02:36

Will do. If that's not possible, is it possible to remotely access the server to schedule recordings?

Thanks again.

advocate99 · 2014-06-05, 02:49

You can always access your Windows Media Center computer and schedule recordings there. You just need to install a remote access software on that machine.

I run my WMC on VMWare ESXi, so I use their client for access..

(2014-06-05, 02:36)mlu3141 Wrote: Will do. If that's not possible, is it possible to remotely access the server to schedule recordings?

Thanks again.

scarecrow420 · 2014-06-05, 04:39

I think there is also an app called RemotePotato that lets you do that. We dont have any plans at this stage to make a client that directly talks to ServerWMC, we only have a client addon for XBMC and a client adapter for Media Browser 3. A client that can only do administrative tasks is an interesting idea but reasonably edge case... normally clients also need to display video etc which is why we havent really bothered trying to reinvent that wheel when XBMC, MB3 etc can already do it much more capably.

kitehigh · 2014-06-05, 18:38

Is it possible to have an epg icon which would indicate a recording conflict? Like in wmc which displays an '!' symbol?

krustyreturns · 2014-06-06, 04:55

Doesn't it do that now? I know it used to, but I haven't check it for a while. Mostly I remember seeing the conflict icon in the timer list though but I thought it was both.

Also, we can't control what xbmc displays for the conflict but we do pass it data saying whether there is a conflict. So if its not working we need to look at it.

scarecrow420 · 2014-06-06, 05:07

Assumedly it could be skin dependent as well, so make sure you use confluence for any testing

mlu3141 · 2014-06-06, 12:50

I'll look at Remote Potato...certainly agree it's probably not worth the effort to add those features to the back end when it's a niche request.

kitehigh · 2014-06-06, 19:08

Tried it in confluence, screenshot below (I only have 4 tuners). The timer page does list that there is a conflict but some other users in the house don't necessarily look there so ideally this would be highlighted in the epg. Sounds like it is a general PVR thing though anyway rather than the addon..

**negge** · 2014-06-06, 19:52

There is no general API for timer conflicts, which is why it's not possible to display it without some addon hacks. This is definitely something that has been considered and hopefully we'll have support for it at some point.

bluenote · 2014-06-06, 21:47

Hey guys

Just checking in on 'keep recordings' in series recordings, is that still planned?

thanks

krustyreturns · 2014-06-07, 03:25

@bluenote

Yes, when we redo the custom dialog for series recordings. We have a number of things to add here, that is one of them. We talked about this today as a matter of fact.

@kitehigh

Yeah sorry, my memory let me down on this one. It only shows the conflict in the timer display window, I just verified it myself.

LehighBri · (This post was last modified: 2014-06-16, 23:27 by LehighBri.)

krusty - I used this when you first started development last year, took a bit of time off from it, and am now ready to get back into it based on all the incredible updates you've been making.

One discussion point we had back in October was the functionality related to how/when XBMC updates what appears in the Recordings list, and how Windows behaves differently than non-Windows (aka my raspberry pi).

Has any progress been made on this? See the post here for more context: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1523271

One additional request. Is there a way to only pull in a subset of channels into XBMC? e.g. in WMC, I only have it show the guide for channels 500 and above, but in XBMC, I see the EPG has listings starting with channel 2 (when instead I would have expected and liked XBMC to only have channels 500 and above).

scarecrow420 · 2014-06-17, 01:03

Hi LehighBri,

Hopefully we have addressed the first issue you mention, whenever something occurs that affects data (recordings, timers, etc) we set a flag that will trigger each client on it's next "healthcheck" to the server, that it needs to refresh the appropriate data list. So a recording being scheduled by one client, or being completed by the server etc, should now trigger all clients to update their lists on the next healthcheck. The healthchecks occur quite frequently so in general I hope you will find this "problem" now addressed.

For your second comment there are a number of ways to do this. We push all channels that are "visible" in WMC to XBMC, so if you don't want these channels to exist in either WMC or XBMC, you can simply "hide" them in WMC and we then wont push them over. If you do want them in WMC but just not in XBMC we support the "favourite lineups" (or Channel Groups in XBMC lingo) and furthermore we support "restricting" a client/s channels and/or recordings to only specific channel groups. So what you could do is create a Favourite Lineup in WMC containing the channels you want XBMC to have, then setup ServerWMC ClientRestrictions option in the config file to limit your named XBMC clients to only see channels (and optionally only see recordings) for these particular channel group/s. Also if you make use of Channel Groups outside of this "restricting" functionality you can also "hide" any named channel group from XBMC so it doesn't appear as a normal channel group (eg you might have Sports, News, Kids etc but you don't want "Channels over 500" group to show in XBMC. Make sense? Have a look in the config.xml file and there is a dummy example for ClientRestrictions that should hopefully be self explanatory.