Fanart cache

[HuMan321]

Hi,

Thanks to all the developers for this awesome plug-in.

I just installed on my WHS machine and it went very well. Since I run WHS on a limited C drive I have my existing BMT fanart moved to D:\shares\Fanart and it has worked well keeping these files off the small C drive.

My C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache file is now populating and growing with many folders, jpg's etc. How can I stop Diamond from populating the C drive and either use the existing Fanart on D drive or have Diamond populate D drive instead of C drive.

Any help is appreciated.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by HuMan321

Hi,

Thanks to all the developers for this awesome plug-in.

I just installed on my WHS machine and it went very well. Since I run WHS on a limited C drive I have my existing BMT fanart moved to D:\shares\Fanart and it has worked well keeping these files off the small C drive.

My C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache file is now populating and growing with many folders, jpg's etc. How can I stop Diamond from populating the C drive and either use the existing Fanart on D drive or have Diamond populate D drive instead of C drive.

Any help is appreciated.

Stop the sagetv service
open sagetv properties and search for for "JOrton/Fanart/CacheLocation="

Change that to where you want it to cache

On restart go to advanced--daimond fanart settings and clear the cache.

You can also manually delete the old folder

cheers

[HuMan321]

Thanks for the quick response!

EDIT:
In case it was not clear I found the properties setting correct without doing any edits, but it is still adding new jpegs to c drive instead of the locations in properties file.

In Sage properties it appears to be set correctly, yet still created several subfolders and is grabbing fresh jpegs and filling up these sub folders.
JOrton/CacheLocation=D\:\\shares\\fanart\\cache\\DiamondImages


Here is a list of subfolders it made on C drive and populating them:
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\Movies\posters
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\backgrounds
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\season_posters
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\series_banners
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\series_posters

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by HuMan321

Thanks for the quick response!

In Sage properties it appears to be set correctly, yet still created several subfolders and is grabbing fresh jpegs and filling up these sub folders.
JOrton/CacheLocation=D\:\\shares\\fanart\\cache\\DiamondImages


Here is a list of subfolders it made on C drive and populating them:
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\Movies\posters
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\backgrounds
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\season_posters
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\series_banners
C:\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\cache\DiamondImages\TV\series_posters

Are you changing the extenders properties as well?

[HuMan321]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Are you changing the extenders properties as well?

No, I have not fired up any of my 3 extenders I am just working on the WHS server at the moment. Should I be going into client properties and editing?

[razrsharpe]

plucky originally referenced

JOrton/Fanart/CacheLocation=

and then you referenced

JOrton/CacheLocation=

try changing the one plucky referenced... I dont have a JOrton/CacheLocation in my properties folder... And (plucky will correct me if I'm wrong) but i think you want to be changing the properties file that corresponds to UIContext (ie sageclient.properties or macaddress.properties)

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

plucky originally referenced

JOrton/Fanart/CacheLocation=

and then you referenced

JOrton/CacheLocation=

try changing the one plucky referenced... I dont have a JOrton/CacheLocation in my properties folder... And (plucky will correct me if I'm wrong) but i think you want to be changing the properties file that corresponds to UIContext (ie sageclient.properties or macaddress.properties)

correct JOrton/CacheLocation is leftover from version 2.00 and you want to be editing the uicontext properties as well so correct on both counts

[HuMan321]

Originally Posted by razrsharpe

plucky originally referenced

JOrton/Fanart/CacheLocation=

and then you referenced

JOrton/CacheLocation=

try changing the one plucky referenced... I dont have a JOrton/CacheLocation in my properties folder... And (plucky will correct me if I'm wrong) but i think you want to be changing the properties file that corresponds to UIContext (ie sageclient.properties or macaddress.properties)

Thanks
I did notice the difference in what he wrote and I found, but this is the only reference to cache location in my properties file. I copy/pasted it to ensure it was exact from my file.

I am not sure I fully follow what you are suggesting on the client properties file. I did open this one and found 2 references to Jorton cache location and they are both default on C drive. I was waiting for PluckyHD to respond before changing the 2 entries in client properties.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by HuMan321

Thanks
I did notice the difference in what he wrote and I found, but this is the only reference to cache location in my properties file. I copy/pasted it to ensure it was exact from my file.

I am not sure I fully follow what you are suggesting on the client properties file. I did open this one and found 2 references to Jorton cache location and they are both default on C drive. I was waiting for PluckyHD to respond before changing the 2 entries in client properties.

Only the one properies I mentioned matters and you need to edit it in the extenders properties files

[HuMan321]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

correct JOrton/CacheLocation is leftover from version 2.00 and you want to be editing the uicontext properties as well so correct on both counts

I had uninstalled version 2.x before I upgraded. Since I have the old entry verbiage should I just add a line to my properties file with the updated one? If so, should I rem out the old 2.x line?

I looked in the client properties file and as I said found 2 line items for cache location. One follows the 2.x verbiabe and it added the JOrton/Fanart/Location line to the client properties

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by HuMan321

I had uninstalled version 2.x before I upgraded. Since I have the old entry verbiage should I just add a line to my properties file with the updated one? If so, should I rem out the old 2.x line?

I looked in the client properties file and as I said found 2 line items for cache location. One follows the 2.x verbiabe and it added the JOrton/Fanart/Location line to the client properties

you need to be in the extender properties files not the clients unless you run it from your server.

[HuMan321]

I think with all your help this is now working. I hope this might to helpful to someone else down the road.

It appears that the "updated" properties line for fanart location did not populate correctly on my install. Adding it manually seems to have corrected it as I am starting to see fanart updates go to the correct location.

Thanks again for the help and I will update if something significant develops.

[darcilicious]

Somewhat related to this -- is there a way to force a re-read? I've waited for nearly 72 hours, restarted the client, etc and the updated poster won't show for a particular movie.

What I did: I updated the poster art of a movie after the default "no poster" showed up for a movie in my W7 PC client. Since then, I see the poster art displaying on my other PC client (where I didn't view the movie until after the fanart was updated via bmt) but the the first PC client still won't show the poster art. I've checked the Diamond cache folder on that client PC and it's not there... I also went to the Diamond Cover Flow view under videos, selected the movie in question and did the "delete Diamond fanart" but no change on this client.

My apologies if I'm missing something obvious, thanks!

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

Somewhat related to this -- is there a way to force a re-read? I've waited for nearly 72 hours, restarted the client, etc and the updated poster won't show for a particular movie.

What I did: I updated the poster art of a movie after the default "no poster" showed up for a movie in my W7 PC client. Since then, I see the poster art displaying on my other PC client (where I didn't view the movie until after the fanart was updated via bmt) but the the first PC client still won't show the poster art. I've checked the Diamond cache folder on that client PC and it's not there... I also went to the Diamond Cover Flow view under videos, selected the movie in question and did the "delete Diamond fanart" but no change on this client.

My apologies if I'm missing something obvious, thanks!

You can reset all the diamond cache for that client and see if that does it although the delete effectly does the same thing just for that one image.

[darcilicious]

You can reset all the diamond cache for that client

Is there a place to do this in SageTV in the client UI or do I just delete the Diamond cache folder?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by darcilicious

Is there a place to do this in SageTV in the client UI or do I just delete the Diamond cache folder?

The wiki is your friend

Detailed setup--diamond fanart

[darcilicious]

Oops, sorry, you're quite right!