Plugin: Upcoming Movies

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by fidget

I don't seem to be able to change views, so I guess that I have the default. From the Options, I have Category All, Showing Watched, Hiding Started.

In Options, select Menu Options and disable Background Fanart there.

See if that helps.

John

[mkanet]

Fidget, I dont know if youre still watching this thread. I am feel very bad... I gave you false information. I just checked, my heapsize is set to 1024 (not the sageTV default); and, that was still causing regular warnings that the heapsize exceeded the threshold (which seemed to be benign). I forgot that I had increased it a while back. Sorry.

While I was looking at my 1024 heapsize setting, I decided to just now change it to 1280 (25% more) to see if the benign warnings go away.

BTW: I dont know if this will give you an idea how many movies are listed in Upcoming Movies for my Comcast lineup, it currently shows 3258 movies for All Upcoming in this plugin. I've never really paid much attention to this value; and, the number of movies may be more or less. Maybe that gives you a better idea how many movies are available in a 14 day period. Although, I never set my default view to "All Upcoming". It's either "Up Next" or "On Now"

-Michael

Originally Posted by fidget

I just installed the plugin and I have two things to say: 1) It is a very nice plugin (although I wish I could sort alphabetically rather than chronologically) and 2) it is a memory hog. I have my heap set to 1024 MB and Sage usually runs around 30-35% utilization but after scrolling down the list of upcoming movies, I run out of heap and my server pegs at 100% CPU until I reboot the extender.

[peternm22]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

I think the sort by **** was relying on the automatic IMDB lookup in SageMC to populate the Misc field with the star rating. I've removed it in the latest version.

I believe that the star rating is part of the EPG data (at least in North America it is). I have star ratings listed for most movies in SageTV, and I haven't used SageMC since version 7 came out. Is there anyway to add sorting by **** back in?

Thanks (cool plugin BTW)

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by peternm22

I believe that the star rating is part of the EPG data (at least in North America it is). I have star ratings listed for most movies in SageTV, and I haven't used SageMC since version 7 came out. Is there anyway to add sorting by **** back in?

I've re-enabled the sort by **** and uploaded to the plugin repository, but I have no way to test it. It's a straight copy of the code from SageMC.

John

[peternm22]

John,

Tried the updated version, but selecting the **** simply orders things the same as "Time". I opened up Studio and looked at what displayed the star rating on the screen (see the screenshot I attached). It appears to be GetShowMisc(Airing), but it also adds other items as well (such as the movie studio).

Warning: I'm a novice at studio, so what follows may or may not be useful.

I looked at the code for the Upcoming Movies program, and this line seems to be key:

stars = GetShowMisc(Movie)

What follows is an "if" conditional comparing the "stars" variable to "****", "***+", etc. Since GetShowMisc() contains other data apart from star info, the conditional can never be true unless there is only star data in GetShowMisc (which I don't think happens very often).

I think the "stars" variable needs to grab everything before the first comma to work properly. I tried doing this myself, but getting SageTV to use Java string methods continues to confound me.

What do you think?

[peternm22]

Ok, I'm a moron. I see that that the code does (appear) to take this into account... still looking for the fix....

[JREkiwi]

I'll have a look, maybe there's some blanks at the start that it's not handling.

John

[peternm22]

John,

I did a bit more tinkering, and I think this line may be the problem (although, I've been wrong before):

Movies = Sort(Movies, If(MoviesSortOrder == "Descending", true, false), "GetAiringStartTime")

That seems to be the line that determines the sorting order for "StarRating". It uses the same sorting method as Sort By Time, so that's why the **** sort option shows the same thing as Sort By Time. Changing "GetAiringStartTime" to something else (GetShowYear, GetAiringTitle), does change the order of the **** screen. I just don't know what value to change it to in order for it to properly sort by star rating. I'm tried a bunch of different values (GetShowMisc, StarredMovies, starArray) but none of them give the desired result.

Hopefully that helps you track down the problem. I'll keep trying to fix it myself, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by peternm22

Hopefully that helps you track down the problem. I'll keep trying to fix it myself, but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

I have figured out what the problem is, but I might need to rework a few things in order to get it to work. The problem is a bit further down the code than where you're looking. That bit is just ensuring the within the groups of star rating the airings will be sorted by Title.

Thanks for pushing me into relooking at the code.

John

[Rico66]

I just installed the latest update and the sorting by stars looks good now as far as I can tell.

[peternm22]

Just tried the new version, and it seems to be working very well

Thank you!

[peternm22]

Feature request: Ability to hide certain movies via the Filter.

I have 1633 movies listed right now, and that can be quite daunting to go through every time I'm looking for a good upcoming movie (since many of the movies I have absolutely no interest in). If it was possible to mark a movie as "Don't Like" and be able to filter the list for movies Unwatched and that also aren't marked as "Don't Like", then finding new movies I may be interested in would be a much quicker task.

This may be more complicated to do then the other filter options. I realize there is a "Don't Like" flag that can be set, but it appears to be airing specific (unlike the Watched flag). So if a certain movie is marked as Don't Like, only that specific airing won't be shown. Other airings will continue to show in the list (negating the purpose entirely). The only way I can think of getting this to work is to check if any movie by the same title in the Sage database has had it's Don't Like flag set.

Do you think this be feasible to do? Or would it be too much work?

I'd attempt this myself, but as you've seen my studio skills aren't really up to par

[Gustovier]

Is there a view that will show on now movies and the up next movies together ? That would be helpful.

[JREkiwi]

Originally Posted by Gustovier

Is there a view that will show on now movies and the up next movies together ? That would be helpful.

There isn't, but it probably won't be too difficult to add.

John

[Gustovier]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

There isn't, but it probably won't be too difficult to add.

John

Cool.. I hope it gets added soon.. That would be the only view i'm sure a lot of people would use, and there wouldn't be a need to keep on switching views..

[Gustovier]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

There isn't, but it probably won't be too difficult to add.

John

Thanks for the update, perfect! Now if only Recording Menu::GingerTV plugin would play nice with it, and not list the title twice. I don't think I will need GingerRecord once you guys release the update to Diamond though with the fixed Season\Episode info not displaying issue.

[mkanet]

Sorry for the off topic post, but, I'm presuming that you dont use fanart; as GingerTV causes the title of each movie to be displayed twice if BMT is used.

Originally Posted by Gustovier

Thanks for the update, perfect! Now if only Recording Menu::GingerTV plugin would play nice with it, and not list the title twice. I don't think I will need GingerRecord once you guys release the update to Diamond though with the fixed Season\Episode info not displaying issue.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Gustovier

Thanks for the update, perfect! Now if only Recording Menu::GingerTV plugin would play nice with it, and not list the title twice. I don't think I will need GingerRecord once you guys release the update to Diamond though with the fixed Season\Episode info not displaying issue.

EP put all the ginger stuff into the next release of diamond and it works fine with BMT.

[JREkiwi]

There is a new version in the repository "Upcoming Movies 2" which will replace the current current version going forward. The current version is still compatible with SageTV 7.0 - 7.1.5, but Upcoming Movies 2 should be used on SageTV 7.1.5+

There are a few changes like the option of full resolution backgrounds.

If you are running SageTV 7.1.5, you should uninstall all of these plugins if you have them installed.
"Phoenix Fanart for SageTV V7"
"Phoenix Fanart for Malore Menus"
"Read, Write and Edit Metadata"
"IMDB Search"
"Upcoming Movies"

and install
"Upcoming Movies 2"
and if desired "Phoenix Fanart for SageTV"

Installing either of those will also install "Complementary Metadata Tool (CMT)" which is a replacement for the RW Metadata and IMDB plugins.

John

[mkanet]

Hi John, thanks for all your hard work. Could you please explain the difference between "IMDB Search" + "Read, Write, and Edit Metadata" and "Complementary Metadata Tool (CMT)"? Did you consolidate the two plugins into one larger plugin meant for SageTV 7.1.5 and newer? Im looking forward to trying Upcoming Movies 2; especially with full resolution background support.

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

There is a new version in the repository "Upcoming Movies 2" which will replace the current current version going forward. The current version is still compatible with SageTV 7.0 - 7.1.5, but Upcoming Movies 2 should be used on SageTV 7.1.5+

There are a few changes like the option of full resolution backgrounds.

If you are running SageTV 7.1.5, you should uninstall all of these plugins if you have them installed.
"Phoenix Fanart for SageTV V7"
"Phoenix Fanart for Malore Menus"
"Read, Write and Edit Metadata"
"IMDB Search"
"Upcoming Movies"

and install
"Upcoming Movies 2"
and if desired "Phoenix Fanart for SageTV"

Installing either of those will also install "Complementary Metadata Tool (CMT)" which is a replacement for the RW Metadata and IMDB plugins.

John