SageTV Integration - Movies and TV Shows archiving compatible with XBMC

bradvido88 Wrote:FYI: I am making the move from SageTV to ForTheRecord.

ForTheRecord and XBMC play nice together, which means LiveTV in XBMC and no need for 2 separate applications.... XBMC is now my PVR.

I'll keep this thread open, but probably won't do much more active development on the script.

Bradvido88... Thanks for your work on this script! It is appreciated.

I am also contemplating moving (from Beyond TV) to ForTheRecord. If you care to share, I'd be interested in hearing your experiences in migrating to ForTheRecord.

Any sense when the Eden compatible version of this might be coming? I know that it all works except the library update, but I've been having a weird problem where the log stops having any data in it and no shows are processed until I quit XBMC and go look at the log. Then it runs fine the next time it's scheduled to run. For the last two days it's happened at exactly 6:35pm (right after it processes our local news). I'll try and set the program to log at the highest level and post again when I have something.

Thanks.

pkscuot Wrote:Any sense when the Eden compatible version of this might be coming? I know that it all works except the library update, but I've been having a weird problem where the log stops having any data in it and no shows are processed until I quit XBMC and go look at the log. Then it runs fine the next time it's scheduled to run. For the last two days it's happened at exactly 6:35pm (right after it processes our local news). I'll try and set the program to log at the highest level and post again when I have something.

Thanks.

If you get a debug log i'll take a look. I don't think i'll do much more development on this. Sage is dying and Google hasn't made a single comment on if they are going to revive it or just steal some of the code and let it die.

I've already started on some FTR integration tests. It's free, open, scalable, and already has PVR integration into XBCM-PVR branch.

bradvido88 Wrote:If you get a debug log i'll take a look.

Here's one and another. They both follow the same pattern. The show is archived, then the old json call is sent to XBMC. Then the XBMC-SAGETV script logs that it is reading the response and that's it.

I did some more tests and found two things. First, this only seems to happen with shows that I have set to manually archive (the local and national news). Second, if I quit XBMC and wait a couple of minutes, that seems to kick the script out of it's catatonic state.

I was looking through the config.xml file to see if there was some way to just disable the json call all together, but I didn't see anything obvious. I have XBMC set to update the library every hour, so I really wouldn't miss the auto triggered updates that much.

Quote:I don't think i'll do much more development on this. Sage is dying and Google hasn't made a single comment on if they are going to revive it or just steal some of the code and let it die. I've already started on some FTR integration tests. It's free, open, scalable, and already has PVR integration into XBCM-PVR branch.

Yea, I'm trying to get this setup to work for another year until (hopefully) the PVR branch is merged into the main branch. Isn't the current PVR branch based on an older version of XBMC? Having used Eden for a couple of weeks now, I don't think I could go back.

Just to let you know, I figured out a way to get everything to be stable. I turned off the external JSON and HTTP interfaces (this tool was the only thing using them), and now everything runs correctly. For some reason getting no response to the JSON request is OK, but getting one from Eden isn't. Anyway, this will allow me to limp through until I migrate to something else. I appreciate all the work you've put into this. It had made XBMC usable for us.

BTW, to replace the quick library updates, I updated the XBMC Library Auto Updater to allow you to do some more advanced scheduling. So I now have SAGETV-XBMC running at 10 minutes past and 40 minutes past the hour and then have XBMC updating my library at 15 minutes past and 45 minutes past the hour. I've asked robweber if he wants to see the changes and potentially incorporate them into the main release.

It's a little more brute force, but it does work.

pkscuot Wrote:Just to let you know, I figured out a way to get everything to be stable. I turned off the external JSON and HTTP interfaces (this tool was the only thing using them), and now everything runs correctly. For some reason getting no response to the JSON request is OK, but getting one from Eden isn't. Anyway, this will allow me to limp through until I migrate to something else. I appreciate all the work you've put into this. It had made XBMC usable for us.

BTW, to replace the quick library updates, I updated the XBMC Library Auto Updater to allow you to do some more advanced scheduling. So I now have SAGETV-XBMC running at 10 minutes past and 40 minutes past the hour and then have XBMC updating my library at 15 minutes past and 45 minutes past the hour. I've asked robweber if he wants to see the changes and potentially incorporate them into the main release.

It's a little more brute force, but it does work.

Cool. Looks like that will work for the meantime.
If you want to disable the auto-update from this script, just change the Config.xml
from
<XBMCAutoUpdate enabled="true">
to
<XBMCAutoUpdate enabled="false">

Also, the PVR branches are up-to-date (for Windows at least).
The Eden Beta2 PVR build is available here:
http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~marcelg....html#eden

bradvido88, have you seen the thread on the Sage forums regarding Sage and Plex integration? Essentially what they did was write a custom scraper for Plex that talks to a Sage Plugin. This allows the files to be added to the library with all the Sage info. Seems like a pretty smart idea. If we knew someone good with XBMC scrapers, maybe we can get it ported over to XBMC. I do not know how close Plex's and XBMC's scrapers are.

Why are all the other PVR backends a PIA to setup? FTR was promising until I realized it doesn't work with my analog encoder. Most of my son's cartoons are still on non-HD analog channels. Not having that isn't an option. I've tried migrating from Sage, but the other backends have just not cut it at this point.

I was a sage user for years but now am trying to live without cable and am using xbmc. But I'd like to be able to access all the shows instill have on sage. Will this let me?

Thanks
Mike

(2012-07-29 16:43)xj-boonie Wrote:  I was a sage user for years but now am trying to live without cable and am using xbmc. But I'd like to be able to access all the shows instill have on sage. Will this let me?

Thanks
Mike

This should work for your needs. Or if you don't care about having them integrated into the XBMC library I wrote an add-on that will connect to your Sage server and display all of your content with library views and all the metadata

(2012-07-29 19:52)aaronb Wrote:  

(2012-07-29 16:43)xj-boonie Wrote:  I was a sage user for years but now am trying to live without cable and am using xbmc. But I'd like to be able to access all the shows instill have on sage. Will this let me?

Thanks
Mike

This should work for your needs. Or if you don't care about having them integrated into the XBMC library I wrote an add-on that will connect to your Sage server and display all of your content with library views and all the metadata

Where can I get access to that add on you mention?