VirtualTV plugin

[TZTZoro 26]

around 2024-01-08 11:18:55.542 playback failed to a web client
and at the end of the log file they are out of sync the clients and epg
@pünktchen

embyserver(1).txt

Edited January 8, 2024 by TZTZoro
Clarification

[JuJuJurassic 49]

Hi Junglejim,

The "wished for" result of the channel would be to play random episodes of the star trek series I have on the server, but not the animated series. I may want to ensure Star Trek Voyager isn't played - Never liked that one much.

Thanks and have a good evening

[JuJuJurassic 49]

Did anyone have any luck with the disabled channels and removing them?

I also noticed Pseudo TV, what are the impressions regarding it? Would it be better to switch over to it?

Thanks

[TZTZoro 26]

Collections/playlists dont seem to be working, my playlists are set to collaborative

[Dibbes 514]

6 hours ago, JuJuJurassic said:

Hi Junglejim,

The "wished for" result of the channel would be to play random episodes of the star trek series I have on the server, but not the animated series. I may want to ensure Star Trek Voyager isn't played - Never liked that one much.

Thanks and have a good evening

Try this:

Uncheck the box at the end:

[ellisd4 73]

46 minutes ago, Dibbes said:

Try this:

Uncheck the box at the end:

I just tag episodes I do not want included… don’t know why you couldn’t do that with the animated series and then use the tag as an exclusion. 

[Dibbes 514]

1 minute ago, ellisd4 said:

I just tag episodes I do not want included… don’t know why you couldn’t do that with the animated series and then use the tag as an exclusion. 

Yup, that would be another way of doing it, personally I found this solution to be easier

[pünktchen 1409]

7 hours ago, JuJuJurassic said:

Did anyone have any luck with the disabled channels and removing them?

Did you run the guide refresh task after disabling any channel?

[pünktchen 1409]

1 hour ago, TZTZoro said:

Collections/playlists dont seem to be working, my playlists are set to collaborative

Thanks. It's an update problem of the selection fields. It will be fixed in the next version that will be coming soon. For now just change the user once more after you have selected Playlists as source and MusicVideos as type.

Btw. I have not forgotten your other problem with the playback start...

[TZTZoro 26]

11 hours ago, pünktchen said:

Thanks. It's an update problem of the selection fields. It will be fixed in the next version that will be coming soon. For now just change the user once more after you have selected Playlists as source and MusicVideos as type.

Btw. I have not forgotten your other problem with the playback start...

Unfortunately that doesnt solve it for me, i change the user to all the users on my server and the playlist section doesnt change, i'll wait for the next release and try the new version, thank you

That is awesome, no haste, it isnt as big of an issue for the music videos, i havent seen it with mixed content channels (yet)

[Dibbes 514]

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Edited January 10, 2024 by Dibbes

[JuJuJurassic 49]

On 10/01/2024 at 00:54, Dibbes said:

Try this:

Uncheck the box at the end:

That's interesting. I don't have the Channel content source option. 

 

The refresh guide was running for 7 hours and hadn't finished. My server is shut down between 01:30 and 17:00. I booted it up early today and set the refresh going at 9 am, so it's got 16 hours to complete. I've attached the edited log for you. The <URL> is edited

Why is it taking so long to refresh?

thanks

embyserver(7).txt

[Dibbes 514]

1 hour ago, JuJuJurassic said:

That's interesting. I don't have the Channel content source option. 

You will... I was using a plugin that Pünktchen sent me for testing purposes, as I has some of the issue described by other people as well... these have now been resolved

1 hour ago, JuJuJurassic said:

The refresh guide was running for 7 hours and hadn't finished. My server is shut down between 01:30 and 17:00. I booted it up early today and set the refresh going at 9 am, so it's got 16 hours to complete. I've attached the edited log for you. The <URL> is edited

Why is it taking so long to refresh?

I've had that various times as well. It seems to be that database delete operations take a very long time nowadays. The longest my refresh ran before completing, was over 3 days. Emby was not usable during this time. It's not a plugin issue though. 

[jordy 284]

Hey, Just noticed that my Virtual TV guide was blank.

I had only one channel set up to show TV series. Checking the plugin, I notice that the channel is no longer editable and cannot be deleted.

I created another channel and now everything works as it should except that I have a blank Virtual Channel in my guide that I cannot remove.

Could you have a look at that please?

One other thing, the guide does not show Season# Episode# nor Episode title.  Could this be added please?

 

Thanks Paul

[pünktchen 1409]

9 hours ago, jordy said:

had only one channel set up to show TV series. Checking the plugin, I notice that the channel is no longer editable and cannot be deleted.

I created another channel and now everything works as it should except that I have a blank Virtual Channel in my guide that I cannot remove.

Could you have a look at that please?

Simplest solution would be: shutdown Emby, delete the VirtualTV.xml file from plugins\configurations, restart Emby.

 

9 hours ago, jordy said:

One other thing, the guide does not show Season# Episode# nor Episode title.  Could this be added please?

Look at the program details. It should be there already. The epg grid view is the responsibility of the Emby devs.

[HeroHabit 6]

I have a question about this and combing through 102 pages isn't getting me the answer.

I tried this app out and it was pretty easy to get up and going. My question is if I set a channel with TV shows and tell it to shuffle the shows but place the episodes in order, will it adjust the channel lineup if I don't watch an episode. For example, say I have Arrested Development S01E01 slated for a 5:00 start and AD S01E02 slated for 7:30. If I don't watch the 5:00 episode, will it switch the 7:30 episode to S01E01 or am I just out of luck and missing that episode?

If it doesn't adjust automatically, I think that'd be a great feature for the future so that I can drop into the channel and pick up my shows from where I last watched. If it already does it, awesome, I'll finish setting everything up on my server.

Thanks!

[Dibbes 514]

15 hours ago, HeroHabit said:

I tried this app out and it was pretty easy to get up and going. My question is if I set a channel with TV shows and tell it to shuffle the shows but place the episodes in order, will it adjust the channel lineup if I don't watch an episode. For example, say I have Arrested Development S01E01 slated for a 5:00 start and AD S01E02 slated for 7:30. If I don't watch the 5:00 episode, will it switch the 7:30 episode to S01E01 or am I just out of luck and missing that episode?

It's a plugin that's programmed to act like a TV channel, so just like a broadcast, if you miss it, it moves on to the next.

What you're looking for is a play-list. A play-list allows you to pick up where you left off.

[HeroHabit 6]

44 minutes ago, Dibbes said:

It's a plugin that's programmed to act like a TV channel, so just like a broadcast, if you miss it, it moves on to the next.

What you're looking for is a play-list. A play-list allows you to pick up where you left off.

I'm aware of what a playlist is/does. Thanks. 

This app has a "playlist"mode and a setting to only show unwatched content so I don't think it's unreasonable to ask or desire a feature that allows the plugin to not progress to the next episode if the predecessor remains unwatched. Especially since there's no current setting built into Emby's playlists that would allow me to randomize the shows but keep the episodes in order as this app expertly does.

[Neminem 1518]

@HeroHabitThat sounds like a great plugin, you could develop.

 

[pünktchen 1409]

Although i agree with @Dibbes,my wife also always asks for this. It's just a matter of time.

[Dibbes 514]

37 minutes ago, pünktchen said:

Although i agree with @Dibbes,my wife also always asks for this. It's just a matter of time.

One Time-Shift coming up for the lady then... lol

[jordy 284]

On 1/14/2024 at 2:08 AM, pünktchen said:

Simplest solution would be: shutdown Emby, delete the VirtualTV.xml file from plugins\configurations, restart Emby.

 

Look at the program details. It should be there already. The epg grid view is the responsibility of the Emby devs.

Thanks @pünktchen that worked. Somehow the path to the media folder had been deleted from the xml file. No idea how or why and not sure why I couldn't edit the channel to correct it. strange!

Anyway, it's all good now

Cheers

Paul

[JuJuJurassic 49]

3 hours ago, jordy said:

Thanks @pünktchen that worked. Somehow the path to the media folder had been deleted from the xml file. No idea how or why and not sure why I couldn't edit the channel to correct it. strange!

Anyway, it's all good now

Cheers

Paul

 

On 13/01/2024 at 15:38, pünktchen said:

Simplest solution would be: shutdown Emby, delete the VirtualTV.xml file from plugins\configurations, restart Emby.

 

Look at the program details. It should be there already. The epg grid view is the responsibility of the Emby devs.

 

On 11/01/2024 at 17:16, Dibbes said:

You will... I was using a plugin that Pünktchen sent me for testing purposes, as I has some of the issue described by other people as well... these have now been resolved

I've had that various times as well. It seems to be that database delete operations take a very long time nowadays. The longest my refresh ran before completing, was over 3 days. Emby was not usable during this time. It's not a plugin issue though. 

I set the scheduled task "Live TV - Refresh guide" going on Saturday morning, but this time I've cleared the crontab etc that turned the media server off, so it's been on since then, but it's only at 15%. 

Incidentally, the Emby server worked fine during the update, but no one watched live tv....yet... but the films played okay.

I don't mind recreating the Channels if it solves the problem, so would it be better if I just delete the VirtualTV.xml file from plugins\configurations, and restart Emby? 

In effect start from new?

Thanks

[Dibbes 514]

2 hours ago, JuJuJurassic said:

 

 

I set the scheduled task "Live TV - Refresh guide" going on Saturday morning, but this time I've cleared the crontab etc that turned the media server off, so it's been on since then, but it's only at 15%. 

Incidentally, the Emby server worked fine during the update, but no one watched live tv....yet... but the films played okay.

I don't mind recreating the Channels if it solves the problem, so would it be better if I just delete the VirtualTV.xml file from plugins\configurations, and restart Emby? 

In effect start from new?

Thanks

So once in a while, and this is on a Windows server, the refresh is stuck on 15% for a long time. The longest it has taken, was over 4 days... this is not a plugin issue though, as this also happens when the plugin is completely removed from the server.

[JuJuJurassic 49]

2 hours ago, Dibbes said:

So once in a while, and this is on a Windows server, the refresh is stuck on 15% for a long time. The longest it has taken, was over 4 days... this is not a plugin issue though, as this also happens when the plugin is completely removed from the server.

Hi Dibles,

It's running on an Ubuntu server, with nothing else. I guess I'll just leave it running.

I read some comments on 4.8.x, aside from all the moaning about release dates and not being very appreciative of the work being done on the upgrade, it mentioned updates to the database on 4.8.x. Do you know if these updates will solve the problem? 

Thanks