Plex Scanner and BMT Agent for SageTV

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by WellThen

This is coming from the TV Scanner - I haven't set up the Movie scanner as yet.

Also, I did check the Wimbledon info inside of sage, and it does show as having Categories - I think it was Romantic Comedy.

I also need you to please try something else for me. I had an issue a while ago with my own scanner that i just remembered when digging through email.

What happened is even though i shutdown sage before replacing the OLD sagex file with the new one, which if you haven't done you should, the sage service was upset. mainly BMT was upset and returned all sorts of funky results.

I did at times get the same error that you got which was caused by the lookup to BMT NOT returning a valid MediaFile object. So what i had to do was completely shutdown everything, and then restart my server. once restarted, i restarted sage, and all of my abnormal errors went away. Please try that as well and let me know if the results are different.

I pm'd you and gave you my email address so that i can email you a new scanner with some additional error checking in..

[PiX64]

So in mucking around today i found an issue with the scanner which until now has been unreported or unseen by myself or darci or Brian.

bascially what happens is this since we set season and episode to 0 if the file doesn't have season and episode info, and say you have 50 shows of the same name with no season..the result will be 1 show in the showname folder. clearly this isn't right.

Have no fear, we have quickly resolved the issue, and new code will be available soon...after testing.

[WellThen]

OK, we made progress. We got through F, and now got an error, interestingly, at the end of G. I mean literally, the file that caused the error before, Wimbledon, was the last file alphabetically on F:/Record, and the new file with the error, WheninRome, is the last file on G. That's some kind of coincidence.

Feb 08, 2012 18:42:06 [4332] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: G:\Record\WheninRome-1975945-0.mp4
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:06 [4332] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: G:\Record\WheninRome-1975945-0.ts.properties
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 138, in Scan
    airDate = date.fromtimestamp(startTime)
ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform localtime() function
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] ERROR - We got an error scanning in G:\Record
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] ERROR - There were errors scanning location: G:/Record
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] DEBUG - Since it was an incomplete scan, we are not going to whack missing media.

One more thing that might be unusual about these files. My recordings from my HD-PVR won't play on most of my clients - so I have Sage automatically convert them from .ts to .mp4 after they complete recording. Now I have many such files, so I don't think that's related, but since it's a little unusual, I thought I'd mention it.

Full log is attached...

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by WellThen

OK, we made progress. We got through F, and now got an error, interestingly, at the end of G. I mean literally, the file that caused the error before, Wimbledon, was the last file alphabetically on F:/Record, and the new file with the error, WheninRome, is the last file on G. That's some kind of coincidence.

Feb 08, 2012 18:42:06 [4332] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: G:\Record\WheninRome-1975945-0.mp4
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:06 [4332] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: G:\Record\WheninRome-1975945-0.ts.properties
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 138, in Scan
    airDate = date.fromtimestamp(startTime)
ValueError: timestamp out of range for platform localtime() function
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] ERROR - We got an error scanning in G:\Record
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] ERROR - There were errors scanning location: G:/Record
Feb 08, 2012 18:42:23 [4332] DEBUG - Since it was an incomplete scan, we are not going to whack missing media.

One more thing that might be unusual about these files. My recordings from my HD-PVR won't play on most of my clients - so I have Sage automatically convert them from .ts to .mp4 after they complete recording. Now I have many such files, so I don't think that's related, but since it's a little unusual, I thought I'd mention it.

Full log is attached...

can u please attach the BMT response for this file as you did the other day... /sagex/api?c:.....

[WellThen]

Originally Posted by PiX64

can u please attach the BMT response for this file as you did the other day... /sagex/api?c:.....

Here you go...

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by WellThen

Here you go...

So that piece of code shouldn't have even been called on that file becuase that file is a movie. if we are dealing with a movie I skip over all the code that doesn't anything important and log a message (which you can't see in windows :-/ ) which says This is a Movie removing from the stack.

Now the file that was scanned just before this guy. can you please give me the api log for that one?

[WellThen]

Originally Posted by PiX64

So that piece of code shouldn't have even been called on that file becuase that file is a movie. if we are dealing with a movie I skip over all the code that doesn't anything important and log a message (which you can't see in windows :-/ ) which says This is a Movie removing from the stack.

Now the file that was scanned just before this guy. can you please give me the api log for that one?

So, I took a leap here. I'm providing the api info from the previous recording (which is also a Movie) and from the previous TV recording...

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by WellThen

So, I took a leap here. I'm providing the api info from the previous recording (which is also a Movie) and from the previous TV recording...

so i think the problem is that the original airdate is 0 for this one particular file.

I will add some additional checking and send you a new file to try in just a second.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by PiX64

so i think the problem is that the original airdate is 0 for this one particular file.

I will add some additional checking and send you a new file to try in just a second.

new file sent via email..please try it out and report back.

[WellThen]

Originally Posted by PiX64

new file sent via email..please try it out and report back.

Hmmm. Hope I didn't screw up installing it. I think it stopped in the same place, but the log file is smaller. Attached...

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by WellThen

Hmmm. Hope I didn't screw up installing it. I think it stopped in the same place, but the log file is smaller. Attached...

AH code mistake on my part sorry. i only half fixed the issue :-) will update and email you a new file.

[panteragstk]

I know that this was meant for sage recordings, but will it work with my archived files that weren't recorded with sage? BMT's metadata is more complete than what plex is getting. It took me a very long time to get BMT to where it is and I'd rather not start over with plex.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

I know that this was meant for sage recordings, but will it work with my archived files that weren't recorded with sage? BMT's metadata is more complete than what plex is getting. It took me a very long time to get BMT to where it is and I'd rather not start over with plex.

I haven't tried it, but in theory yes. you could actually use both of these scanners for ANYTHING that sage knows about.

So for Archived TV Shows
- follow same steps as TV Shows setup, except point to your archived folder

For Movies in SageTV
just use the SageTV Movie Scanner with freebase metadata agent.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PiX64

I haven't tried it, but in theory yes. you could actually use both of these scanners for ANYTHING that sage knows about.

So for Archived TV Shows
- follow same steps as TV Shows setup, except point to your archived folder

For Movies in SageTV
just use the SageTV Movie Scanner with freebase metadata agent.

I guess I'll find out in a little while. I'll let you know.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

I guess I'll find out in a little while. I'll let you know.

i can try it for you as well...ill try it right now
and report back in a few minutes

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by PiX64

i can try it for you as well...ill try it right now
and report back in a few minutes

Works like a champ...for me anyways.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Works like a champ...for me anyways.

Me too. Now I need to finish organizing things in bmt I've been neglecting and my plex setup will be as complete as it can get. Thanks.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

Me too. Now I need to finish organizing things in bmt I've been neglecting and my plex setup will be as complete as it can get. Thanks.

If you really really wanted to i believe that the SageTV Movie Scanner will also work with your movies that sages knows about...so clearly it works with Sage REcorded movies, but it will also work with othe rimported movies like DVD and BDMV

* HUGE CAVEAT here it will not recognize video_ts or BDMV folders...only single files...i purposely didnt' build this functionality in because plex already does this really well.

*testing now
Movie scanner is working as well for all movies sage knows about... I would strongly recommend using the plex movie scanner and agents for movies as they are very robust and very complete.

[panteragstk]

Originally Posted by PiX64

If you really really wanted to i believe that the SageTV Movie Scanner will also work with your movies that sages knows about...so clearly it works with Sage REcorded movies, but it will also work with othe rimported movies like DVD and BDMV

* HUGE CAVEAT here it will not recognize video_ts or BDMV folders...only single files...i purposely didnt' build this functionality in because plex already does this really well.

*testing now

I use my movies for all movie related stuff so I won't be using that feature. It would be cool if plex would grab my movies metadata, but it does a great job on its own so no worries there.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by panteragstk

I use my movies for all movie related stuff so I won't be using that feature. It would be cool if plex would grab my movies metadata, but it does a great job on its own so no worries there.

you could always build a metadata agent for my movies :-)