Remove Recorded Series

[chiefnerd 18]

HOw on Earth do we remove the recorded series library permanently? Remove it, it reappears, remove it reappears! We don't want Kodi scanning the folder until any recordings have been renamed- auto organise does not work because of our TV guide so everything has to be renamed manually...let me know because this is really, really irritating me

[Luke 42077]

Whatever path you have customized in live TV setup for recordings is always going to be added back as a library.

[chiefnerd 18]

We have nothing in Live TV for recordings- we're using TVheadend- it's handled by that. the plugin has no other options. How do we stop it? IS it within a TVheadend file or in Emby itself?

 

It's crazy behaviour to have this by default with no option to remove- how can the server scan in a recording that's just started and 5 seconds long? It'll cause massive issues so this feature in essence means you cannot add any media files until any and all TV Recordings have stopped or it's going to hang any library scan both auto or manual...get where I'm coming from?

Edited September 17, 2016 by chiefnerd

[dcrdev 255]

I don't think the system is very thought out for anything besides the built in hdhomerun support, I also use tvheadend and it doesn't work particularly well. I ended up removing the recordings path altogether from config/livetv.xml and then deleting the library.

 

For me this option made the most sense, since I get virtually no metadata for UK programming anyway.

[chiefnerd 18]

Diamond- thanks alot there matey, at least I have a file path I can edit now. UK Guide somewhat sucks, We use IPTV and manually grab the guide data using webgrab+ and it really is quite atrocious just how bad the guide providers are getting- not even episode numbers or genres for series and I really can't be bothered to post process the entire guide as it'll increase the grab time to something like 6 hours.

 

Now to figure out the bugs that have appeared after last update- collections disappeared, dashboard hides half of the sidebar if you refresh the page...I really think they need to be testing their release on Ubuntu before releasing them, all testing seems to be done on Windows machines then hoping mono works.

[Luke 42077]

We will be looking at changes to the tv setup process soon, thanks.

[chiefnerd 18]

One thing to do with Live TV which is a bit OTT is the fact I've noticed in logs that Emby attempts to scan every TV Show in the EPG- this is totally overboard. Most UK EPG providers don;t even provide the correct information for Emby to use in any form of meta scan. Really it should just grab the generated guide xml and then use it to create the guide directly- far less overheads on the server doing that and most full guide XML's will barely be 25MB.

 

I love Emby but certain processes just need to be reigned in to stop them going crazy and eating up system resources unnecessarily.

[Luke 42077]

One thing to do with Live TV which is a bit OTT is the fact I've noticed in logs that Emby attempts to scan every TV Show in the EPG- this is totally overboard. Most UK EPG providers don;t even provide the correct information for Emby to use in any form of meta scan. Really it should just grab the generated guide xml and then use it to create the guide directly- far less overheads on the server doing that and most full guide XML's will barely be 25MB.

 

I love Emby but certain processes just need to be reigned in to stop them going crazy and eating up system resources unnecessarily.

 

We actually don't do this for regular tv programs, only TV movies and you do have the power to turn this off under live tv settings.

[dcrdev 255]

We actually don't do this for regular tv programs, only TV movies and you do have the power to turn this off under live tv settings.

 

It doesn't quite work for UK programming - TV shows get falsely identified as TV movies in most cases; I think that this is because there is nothing identifying movies as such in UK guide data. As you say though it can be turned off completely.