vdrover 21 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 I record BBC World News each night on PBS via OTA/antenna. Each day, the file name is always the same: `BBC World News (2021)/BBC World News 1991-03-11`. The date in the filename is from the first episode I guess. This works fine, but Emby thinks each episode is the same, and always shows that i've watched the episode (I assume that info is in the database somewhere). Is there a way to append the recording date to the file name for this show only? Maybe that will help with detecting watched vs unwatched shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emveepee 91 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 How do they look in NextPVR? I suspect that is the original air date for the show and Emby is crafting up something incorrectly Also are you sure that is the filename, NextPVR would typically use the recording date. martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 (edited) I had never heard of NextPVR until today! wow. I'll sort that our and circle back. Edited January 21 by vdrover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted January 21 Author Share Posted January 21 ok, follow up. Why would I need NextPVR if emby is already managing recordings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emveepee 91 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 (edited) Typically you wouldn't if you use IPTV or one of the few supported devices but you did post in the NextPVR sub-forum. Moderator please move this thread. Martin Edited January 21 by emveepee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 doh! Apologies. Should I just delete this post and make a new one on the right board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted January 23 Share Posted January 23 Hi, what guide data are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 Emby EPG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 On 1/24/2022 at 5:46 PM, vdrover said: Emby EPG. OK, the next time this happens with a recording, please capture a screenshot of the program details in the web app, and also provide the emby server log from the time of the recording and we'll take a look. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 It happens every weeknight, so lots of data available if you need it. Here's the program details. Logs sent via DM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 Can you show a screenshot of one of these from the guide data before it gets recorded? I need to determine if the 1991 came from the guide data. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted February 10 Author Share Posted February 10 Will this do? Otherwise, tell me where to look and I'll dig into the guidle XML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emdubya77 25 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 If it's of any help, I've noticed something similar with our regional news program - there are three bulletins every day, but they're all marked as 'repeat' with the same 2005 air date! I don't record it though so I don't know how it behaves. This is using Emby guide data (no nextpvr): GBR-1000067-DEFAULT (Freeview West Midlands, postcode WR3) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emveepee 91 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 As I noted at beginning news programs which are not series often have the Original Air date when the show started, nothing to to do with the individual broadcasts. Same with SH recordings from Gracenote. Martin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emdubya77 25 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 (edited) Note this is different behaviour to the majority of other news programs, which appear as below but DO use the recording date in the filename. Presumably it's just a fault in the way the guide data is constructed at source for mine & OP's examples. Edited February 10 by emdubya77 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emveepee 91 Posted February 10 Share Posted February 10 I suspect it is because it is marked as a repeat and the use the original air date incorrectly for a non series. Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 On 2/10/2022 at 2:31 PM, emveepee said: As I noted at beginning news programs which are not series often have the Original Air date when the show started, nothing to to do with the individual broadcasts. Same with SH recordings from Gracenote. Martin OK so what we'll do is ignore this value, and that should prevent this issue going forward. If you're on Emby Server 4.6, this change will be in the upcoming 4.7 server release. If you're on the 4.7 beta channel, I'll have an update to the Emby Guide Data plugin published shortly. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdrover 21 Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 @LukeIn my case, there will now no date on the file. So all the files will have the same filename. I suspect that will cause the same problem as my original post. Wouldn't it be better to ignore the date of the first episode (as you describe able) AND then also add the recorded date? Maybe the year as the subfolder instead of the season (Please does this for sports I think). That way, 2 news programs will appear to be different episodes? Perhaps something like this: Quote BBC World News (2021) -- Season 2022 ----BBC World News (2021) - S2022E2022-02-14 ----BBC World News (2021) - S2022E2022-02-15 ----BBC World News (2021) - S2022E2022-02-16 Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 30074 Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 40 minutes ago, vdrover said: @LukeIn my case, there will now no date on the file. So all the files will have the same filename. I suspect that will cause the same problem as my original post. Wouldn't it be better to ignore the date of the first episode (as you describe able) AND then also add the recorded date? Maybe the year as the subfolder instead of the season (Please does this for sports I think). That way, 2 news programs will appear to be different episodes? Perhaps something like this: Thoughts? If it actually has a season and episode number then that will provide uniqueness. If not then the current date will go into the file name. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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