Plugin: SageTV Catchup

[michaeldjcox]

SageTV Catchup 0.3.3 (beta)

Plugin to integrate UK catchup TV sources into SageTV for UK users.

Requires separate installation of get_iplayer.

Pioneers who installed the original 0.2.7 beta are advised to:

• Completely uninstall 0.2.7 first
• Check in the SageTV server directory that the subdirectory sagetvcatchup has completely gone

The support thread is here

0.3.3 - Second beta release.

Online services menu:

• Recording and catalog status are now a further click away as cannot stop SageTV caching downloads at top level
• Reverse order sorting of categories and episodes by orig air date
• Added a search podcast to allow programme search from SageTV
• Moved show icons to programme level from episode level to facilitate better meta-data visibility
• Improved visibility of meta-data at episode level
• Added a "New" category for programmes added since the last catalog
• Added a "Favourite" category for programmes which are also SageTV favourites
• Added recording status messages to recordings podcast including percent done
• Added grouping of recordings by outcome e.g. in progress, failed, completed
• Made improvements to catalog status reporting including time taken to catalog
• Catalog errors are now grouped by message

Recording:

• Add "Watch and Keep mode" as SageTV only lets you record if fully downloaded.
• Made recording and streaming much more resilient to different outcomes

SageTV plugin:

• Add enable/disable of individual sources in plugin configuration screen.
• Allow catchup server port and recording directory to be configured from SageTV

Cataloging:

• Reduce cataloging time to 10 mins - previously took hours
• Remove the catchup server host and port from podcast URLs from the catalog
• Add a catalog start hour so cataloging always starts at a set hour of day and occurs every X hours
• Only start cataloging on startup if the catalog looks sparse otherwise wait to scheduled time
• Deal with duplicate programme entries in iplayer
• Made catalog downloads interruptable so that cataloging can be more quickly terminated
• Made catalog downloads retry on failure

Web page:

• Add Type column to category web page
• Add Type column to programmes web page
• Add error summary to catalog error web page
• Control links in web server home page redirect back to home page rather than present message web page
• Home page now shows active thread count and heap stats
• Home page now shows growing size of catalog in progress and size of last catalog

General:

• Moved the catchup server to its own JVM to limit the plugins impact on SageTV classpath
• Set up RMI servers in plugin and the now separate server for better control and feedback
• Add seed properties for 32bit windows e.g. windows XP
• Increased maximum heap size to 500Mb

Media sources:

• Fix Demand5 meta data (but demand5 no longer works possibly due to encryption)
• Fix Iplayer series and episode number parsing errors

0.2.7 - First beta release.

Contains Iplayer catalog, watch and record to TV recordings

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Enjoy

Michael

[michaeldjcox]

Plugin to integrate UK catchup TV sources into SageTV for UK users.

Requires separate installation of get_iplayer.

Version 2.90 of get_iplayer is recommended as this allows download of programmes older than 7 days.

0.3.4 - Third beta release

• Online services menu: some lists not fully populated due to incorrect escaping of podcast titles
• SageTV Plugin: Configurability of ports and timeouts and recording commands
• Recording: Better status reporting
• Recording: Two threads for watching and one for queued recordings
• Recording: Configurable timeouts
• Recording: upload to SageTV will now retry move of recording as sometimes get_iplayer has not finished with file
• Recording: recording will not wait for a completed file if the recording was stopped or failed
• Recording: get_iplayer command line is now configurable
• Recording: got rid of relative path from get_iplayer to recording directory as this failed when they are on multiple hard drives
• General: RMI services made to survive suspend/resume of host

[michaeldjcox]

Plugin to integrate UK catchup TV sources into SageTV for UK users.

Requires separate installation of get_iplayer.

Version 2.90 of get_iplayer is recommended as this allows download of programmes older than 7 days.

1.0.0 Release

• Online Services menu. Show the last air date rather than original air date in episode detail
• Online Services menu. Cataloging status - add a count of subcategories
• Online Services menu. Add recording progress to stop button on episode control menu
• Online Services menu. Add "Last chance" category for soon to be removed episodes
• Online Services menu. Add "Most popular" category based on BBC web site
• Online Services menu. Rework "New" category to be based on availability dates.
• Online Services menu. Only one "Air date", "New", "Favourite" etc category for all sources
• Online Services menu. Move "Air date", "New", "Favourite" etc to the top level
• Online Services menu. Add "Sources" categories below which IPlayer and Test go
• Online Services menu. Add icons for some sub categories
• Web Page: Fix issue where podcasts cannot be navigated from remote machine
• Web Page: Duration, last air date, available and removal dates added to episode views.
• Cataloging: extract duration and last air date from iplayer meta data
• Cataloging: extract available and removal dates from iplayer meta data
• Cataloging: reduce air date categories with larger time periods for much older content
• Cataloging: Fix issue of some catalog errors accumulating across catalog runs
• Cataloging: Only one "Air date", "New", "Favourite" etc category for all sources
• Recording: add channel, duration, and last air date to SageTV airing meta data
• Recording: download the episode fanart to the recording directory.
• Recording: fix episode title so it has the SageTVs title - SeasonNr - EpisodeNr format
• Recording: fix episode number which was being set to same value as series number
• Recording: upload to sagetv asynchronously from the server so as to not block recording
• Recording: fix issue where some failed recordings gets listed as still in progress
• Test: reduce size of the test video to reduce deployment upload times

[michaeldjcox]

Plugin to integrate UK catchup TV sources into SageTV for UK users.

Requires separate installation of get_iplayer.

Use version 2.94 or later of get_iplayer which handles the latest changes to BBC IPlayer website.

1.0.1 release

• Breakfix following BBC Iplayer website changes.
• Require get_iplayer 2.94 and remove dependence on playlist URLS which BBC blocks access to