Next Gen LiveTV thoughts

[Dan_Austin 71]

A thread about UI consistency in the beta forums got me thinking about a few items that I think make managing the DVR functionality harder than it needs to be.  Perhaps these are already being addressed, but if not they might be worth considering-

1.  Schedule and Upcoming deliver similar info, but from different sources.  If a program is in Upcoming, but not schedule, it takes a bit of navigating to discover.  Perhaps they could be unified and use the record icon to mark the ones in the schedule.  For any that are not, provide a reason (not in guide, repeat, etc).
2.  Recording history, which could be part of #1, provide a couple of days to a week of history.  If a program was scheduled and was not recorded, list why (guide change, repeat, no tuner, no stream, etc)
3.  While watching a recording I might notice that a given channel has a bad habit of starting late or early.  Currently it requires a good bit of navigation to leave the program, go to LiveTV/Series to just pad the start/end time.  Series options SHOULD be available when watching a program that is a recording AND part of a series.
4.  Similar to #3, while browsing a series in a DVR library any changes require navigating to LiveTV to modify.  If a Series is in the DVR library and has a matching entry in LiveTV as a series to record, it's settings should be available.

I get that these might require more than a few changes to the database and code, but think they would be worth it.  

[ebr 16184]

Hi.  These are all good ideas and most of them are things we have actually already discussed internally.

Thanks.

[MBSki 1114]

On 5/29/2021 at 3:03 PM, ebr said:

Hi.  These are all good ideas and most of them are things we have actually already discussed internally.

LiveTV / DVR is going to be the focus of Beta 4.7 right? Looking forward to some updates so I can use Emby as my DVR. 

[gillmacca01 211]

Well, I'm totally impressed with what they have done with LIve TV (have the feeling they haven't finished yet), so can't wait for improvements to DVR 

[Luke 42079]

Hi, yes these improvements are all planned for future updates. thanks for the feedback.

[bry 12]

agreed with the above. would also like the option to better fine tune channel access per user. 

[DJkhaled 8]

Is there a way to cut out the commercials and after a full season is recorded I can add it to my tv series section.