Feature Request: Keep track of date when airing was watched

[evilpenguin]

I've been playing around with custom categories/views in the recordings menu lately and i've got to say i'm very impressed. There's a lot of power hiding in that little slide out menu.

Last night I created a nice custom view that only filters in shows i'm actively watching and filters out watched shows to keep the lists short/clean. Overall, its got excellent GAF, but only hitch i'm having is that once a show is watched it instantly disappears from the list which isn't ideal from a few usability perspectives.

1. If I watch a show alone but my GF might want to watch it later.
2. If Comskip fails and accidentally dumps me out of a show early.

It'd be nice if we saved the date that a file was watched so you could create a view that had a grace period for watched shows before they are filtered out. I hacked in something similar based off of the date recorded, but its not ideal because if the show is older than the grace period then it will still automatically disappear.

[Opus4]

If you are looking at customizing it, then see if the GetRealWatchedStartTime() & GetRealWatchedEndTime() calls do what you want.

- Andy

[evilpenguin]

Excellent!

[jaminben]

I suspect their is no easy way out of number 1 without Sage adding an additional feature like user accounts to keep track of who has watched which show. Even if you created a grace period you could never guarantee that the other user's would watch that show within the time limit.

Cheers

Ben

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by jaminben

I suspect their is no easy way out of number 1 without Sage adding an additional feature like user accounts to keep track of who has watched which show. Even if you created a grace period you could never guarantee that the other user's would watch that show within the time limit.

Cheers

Ben

Obviously, it won't be 100%, but it'll work probably 95% of the time which is high enough for me

[jaminben]

Yer, I guess 95% of the time would be good enough but I can guarantee that my partner would be the other end of the 95% and I'd get loads of ear ache about missing shows

Another option which maybe an easier alternative would be a watched count which the user could set..... so if you had 2 members of your family that watched the same shows you'd set the watched count to 2 and it would stay in your list until the show had been watched twice.

Just throwing out ideas.....

Cheers

Ben

[evilpenguin]

@Opus - It looks like GetRealWatchedEndTime() doesn't work for shows that have been converted into recordings from imported videos. Expected or bug?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

@Opus - It looks like GetRealWatchedEndTime() doesn't work for shows that have been converted into recordings from imported videos. Expected or bug?

Ahh, this isn't true. What's actually happening is that setting the Watched manually flag from the advanced info menu doesn't update the date returned by the GetRealWatched functions where as actually watching the recording does. I'm guessing just updating that button to call SetWatchedTimes() will fix it in the STV.

[evilpenguin]

@Opus - I'm trying to use SetWatchedTime() to set the RealWatchedTime of a recording, but it doesn't seem to be working like i'd expect. Is this the proper usage that would set the real watched time for an airing to Time()?

SetWatchedTime(Airing,  GetAiringDuration(Airing), Time() -  GetAiringDuration(Airing))

[Opus4]

I asked & was told a couple things:

It is actually SetWatchedTimes().

And, you should use GetAiringEndTime() instead of GetAiringDuration() for the airing-relative end time.

I haven't used those calls, as far as I recall, but I think that should give you some more info to go on.

- Andy

[evilpenguin]

Ok, I tried it like this...

SetWatchedTimes(Airing, GetAiringEndTime(Airing), Time() - GetAiringEndTime())

And it still didn't update the value I received from GetRealWatchedEndTime(). However, I watch the show manually, it will set it correctly.

Basically, my problem is if I set a recording watched without actually watching it, the GetRealWatchedEndTime() is returning 12/16/69 which is causing it to not work with my watched grace period mod.

[Opus4]

The second parameter is supposed to be a real time value, so try not using the airing-relative time for that one. But, I'm not sure if it is affecting the real watched end time from that call.

- Andy

[Opus4]

Update -- I'm told that the above call will not affect the real end time, which is currently just going to be set to the current time.

- Andy

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Update -- I'm told that the above call will not affect the real end time, which is currently just going to be set to the current time.

- Andy

That's actually the behavior i'm looking for and i'd expect from SetWatched() but right now it doesn't seem to be having any affect on the real watched time.

[Opus4]

I don't actually use those calls, so rather than continue trying being a go-between, I suggest you contact SageTV regarding your results.

- Andy