Recent content by martxw

Sorry, TV Diary doesn't do ad-hock recordings very well. It's very EPG related. It makes the linkage if you start part way through a show from the EPG, but it doesn't infer the EPG entry from the channel & time. Primarily, it was to save me money from buying TV listings, and to avoid recording...

If you don't mind, thanks. File sharing on and off my Humax is a little rusty at the moment.

Just seen this. I'll take a look at removing the direct dependency.

Ditto. I recorded the programme that preceded it, and found that recording extended to cover both programmes in one, while Silent Witness itself failed to record on its own.

Ah, I misunderstood. You have an existing old TVDiary DB. I've copied over the existing /mod/etc/tvdiary.db to restore old contents before. You'd lose the newer log entries. I've only done it when re-setting the installation, and so I haven't worried about losing a few hours of new logs. If you...

Sorry, no. It creates entries copying from the EPG, so it needs to be live. It's not good dealing with manual recordings not from the EPG either.

That's roughly what I do. But it's relying on the synopsis actually following that convention. I just double-checked the watchlist search spec I use, and I see I also look for years inside square brackets. And I use asterisk wildcards. eg C||C||C|(20*)| C||C||C|[20*]| S|New:|E|E4|C||...

Assuming you have TVDiary installed and it's been running a while, you can search by clicking the Programme Search tab. You can't specify films over other programmes, but in my sticky searches under Watchlist I take advantage of the convention they use in the listings of putting the release year...

When looking for test data for calculating overtime from timesheets, I worked out the scenario of Santa Clause starting delivering at the International Date Line at midnight Christmas Day, then working his way around to finish back at the International Date Line at the end of Christmas Day. I...

I was trying to move towards a recommendation feature. Look for programmes you regularly watched a lot, and suggest when they re-enter the schedule. But ignore programmes you barely watch. But we don't have enough metadata in the EPG for what I was after, and not enough horsepower.

I can't remember whether I finished implementing that completely. It was meant to tie in with the radar view showing the minutes of the programme, and whether you watched it or paused at it. I wanted to take account of fast forwarding through any bits of a programme when Eamon Holmes opened his...

You've got it right. It's when the TV schedulers say today's TV starts, and that's usually breakfast TV at 6am. Since writing this I've moved on to working on HR software and having to worry about when shift workers' days start. If I start work at 11pm, is my 7 hours work today or tomorrow?

It's hard to say. It may not be handling schedule adjustments well. I know it doesn't work right with custom recordings (channel & time vs from the EPG).

The DB file? I'm not sure whether it's slow to open or slow elsewhere in its use. If it were the file opening I guess a separate process that did all the access to the DB would help. As it is, only one CGI request at a time is permitted access to the file, so each has to wait for the last to...

May take a little while to come through. Not sure if it's automatic or not. I've pushed to hpkg.tv, but yeah, the dowload listing still shows 4-2.