STV Import: Anti-Favorites

[dflachbart]

Hi John,

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Hi Dirk, I took up your challenge and modded your version 2 for use in the Default STV. Seems to work for me, although I haven't bothered changing some of the themes.

I tried a few different ways, in an attempt to not break the SageMC part, but in the end I added a new panel "Favorite Excluder Default STV" that can be added to a menu using Nilem's dynamic menus. If not using Nielm's menus it will appear under Schedule Recordings. It also has Setup/Customize entry for setting the properties.

Great !
I will have a look at it when I find some time ...

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

One problem I discovered though. If you edit an existing entry and press the ESC key to get out of the Text Entry panel, the entry gets deleted. Had me baffled for a while, then I found that it happens under SageMC too.

John

I'll check this out too


Dirk

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by MrRed

It seems to work, but I have a problem now that I am using it. What do you do when there are '-' in the title? Do you quote(s/d) the whole title or is there a deliminator to be used?

It should work even if '-' is part of the title, no delimiters needed. E.g. an exclude for 'Two-A-Days' should be specified as

dl-title-two-a-days

If you find that it doesn't work, please let me know.


Dirk

[MrRed]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Hi Dirk, I took up your challenge and modded your version 2 for use in the Default STV. Seems to work for me, although I haven't bothered changing some of the themes.

...

I'll attach my modded version here, so I can be embarassed by you looking at my hack of your fine work.

John

1st off, thanks for the port

I have a couple of issues.

1) Under recording details, where create exclude menu exists, you have the option to create an exclude. It only creates a blank line ex: "dl-title" with no other information filled in.

2) In the excludes menu, there is no scroll bar defined in the menu. I had no idea how many excludes I had created.

I have no idea if these are real bugs, or just introduced with the port. The first one is frustrating, but so is my wife... I can live with both....lol

[JREkiwi]

MrRed,

1. I think this may be a buglet, but it works the same in SageMC and the Default STV. This works on IR Excludes, but on Favorite excludes you need to click on the field under title and enter the name.

2. The excludes menu does have pagination, but the scroll indicators (bottom right corner) are the tiny ones from SageMC. (Didn't bother changing them and looking at it they won't show, nor will selection highlighting, if you don't have the files from SageMC) I've updated the stvi in the zip file to fix that.

John

Edit: Oops found a couple of more things that are using the SageMC files. I'll fix them up over the weekend.

[JREkiwi]

Hopefully, I've got all the SageMC themes out and updated the stvi in the zip file.

I did a hack with the highlighting, which I may tidy up when time allows.


Dirk,
I made a change

CriteriaValue = If(Fav == null, GetAiringTitle(Airing), "")
CriteriaValue = GetAiringTitle(Airing)

When doing favorite excludes of a keyword favorite I usually want to exclude based on title. Of course we should not be trying to do a title based exclude of a title favorite, so should be checking to see what sort of favorite it is, but I haven't been succesful in getting that to work. Obviously need a coffee.

John

[JREkiwi]

Dirk I knew I just needed a coffee

CriteriaValue = If(Fav == null, GetAiringTitle(Airing), "")

changed to

CriteriaValue = If(Size(GetFavoriteTitle(Fav)) == 0, GetAiringTitle(Airing), "")

John

[JREkiwi]

Now I'm on a roll.

Fixed up my highlighting hack and updated the stvi for the Default STV in the zip

John

[jryan15]

i've been off the forums for a little while now and just read this thread. wanted to add a big thanks for the help in not recording the texas tech women's basketball games! much appreciated!!!

now i can get sage to quit recording all the colts pre/post game junk as well! will be trying this soon.

thanks

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Now I'm on a roll.

Fixed up my highlighting hack and updated the stvi for the Default STV in the zip

John

New update v2.1 available:

- fixed incompatibility with SageMC 6.10
- incorporated JREkiwi's port of the 2.0 features for the default STV
- added JREkiwi's title-prefill for keyword favorites
- added STV config options also to SageMC (Detailed Setup/Customize)

Note for default STV users: you have to rename the import file to fav_excluder_2_1.stvi

John, thanks again for porting it to the default STV !


Dirk

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by flachbar

New update v2.1 available:

- fixed incompatibility with SageMC 6.10
- incorporated JREkiwi's port of the 2.0 features for the default STV
- added JREkiwi's title-prefill for keyword favorites
- added STV config options also to SageMC (Detailed Setup/Customize)

Dirk

Cool.

Didn't even notice that it was incompatable with 6.10

JREkiwi, thanks for the title-prefill code, it rocks.

[JREkiwi]

Hi Dirk, thanks for the update, but wouldn't you know it, I missed doing the theme for the MessageBox.

Nothing drastic, Just the OK button isn't getting highlighted. Also on Message = "Exclude definition not valid" the message box link seems to have become unlinked.

For me to do the link I needed to give the Untitled OptionsMenu a name so I could link to the Untitled button.

Here's the tweaked stvi, maybe you could fit the change in the next version.

Thanks again for your work

John

[JREkiwi]

Hi Dirk,

Can you see why if you esc out of the editing of an exclude entry the entry gets deleted? I can't figure it out.

John

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by JREkiwi

Hi Dirk,

Can you see why if you esc out of the editing of an exclude entry the entry gets deleted? I can't figure it out.

John

Hi John,

this will be fixed with the next SageMC version.


Dirk

[rsagetv99]

I have gotten this working on a couple of favorites, but I ran into a problem on my latest attempt.

Basically I wanted to make a keyword favorite called Pilot so it can pick up all of the new pilots this fall.

To narrow down the favorite a little I added the keyword Series and set it to only record First Runs.

I ended up with a favorite that looked like this:

[Pilot Series] First Runs

I was trying to setup up an anti-favorite for two shows that came up under this favorite "Air Emergency", and "Pilot Guides". Both are series and contain the word pilot, but not actual show pilots. I created the following anti-favorites but they do not work.

[dl-title-Pilot Guides-favk-Pilot Series]
[dl-title-Air Emergency-favk-Pilot Series]

I believe the problem is the phrase "First Runs" in the regular favorite but even if I add "First Runs" to the anti-favorite it still does not work.
e.g. [dl-title-Pilot Guides-favk-Pilot Series First Runs]

If I set the favorite to "First Runs & Reruns" the favorite tiltle changes to [Pilot Series] and the anti-favorite starts to work, but then my favorite picks up a lot of old show pilots - like Three's Company's first episode.

Any ideas?

[rsagetv99]

Also just found another potential problem, I have a lot of favorites that are "actor" favorites, is there a "fava" option? I tried it but it did not work.

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by rsagetv99

I ended up with a favorite that looked like this:

[Pilot Series] First Runs

I was trying to setup up an anti-favorite for two shows that came up under this favorite "Air Emergency", and "Pilot Guides". Both are series and contain the word pilot, but not actual show pilots. I created the following anti-favorites but they do not work.

[dl-title-Pilot Guides-favk-Pilot Series]
[dl-title-Air Emergency-favk-Pilot Series]

I believe the problem is the phrase "First Runs" in the regular favorite but even if I add "First Runs" to the anti-favorite it still does not work.
e.g. [dl-title-Pilot Guides-favk-Pilot Series First Runs]

This is weird. I tried to reproduce it an set up the exact same favorite (also firstruns-only), and the excludes work fine for me:






So I dont have any clue why it is not working for you ...

Regarding the actor-favorites: yep you were right, they were missing. I uploaded v2.2 which adds the -FAVA tag

Dirk

[rsagetv99]

Originally Posted by flachbar

This is weird. I tried to reproduce it an set up the exact same favorite (also firstruns-only), and the excludes work fine for me:






So I dont have any clue why it is not working for you ...

Regarding the actor-favorites: yep you were right, they were missing. I uploaded v2.2 which adds the -FAVA tag

Dirk

That is wierd! Does your keyword favorite look like this "[Pilot Series] First Runs"? Because mine still does not work. I tried creating one for "The Class" just like yours and it did not set it to DL.

Could this be a 1.2 issue? I am using the default STV, and I am guessing that no one has ported over the new version yet right?

[JREkiwi]

rsagetv99, It was ported to the Default STV and is included from version 2.1. 2.2 is now out in the downloads section.

Also here is an updated 2.2 stvi, that has some port fixes that didn't make it into the 2.2 release. Nothing dramatic, just some button highlighting.

You will still need the real 2.2 package to update the JARs

John

[klaberte]

Slight clarification on channel syntax. I wish to exclude shows on ESPN Classic, which is channel 35 and is referred to in Sage as ESPNCL.

So I set up

wd-channel-ESPNCL

as a keyword favorite. However, my Sage continues to record shows from this channel and the exclude.log states that there are no shows to mark.

So should I be using

wd-channel-35

or

wd-channel-35 ESPNCL

???

Thanks,

Ken

[dflachbart]

Originally Posted by klaberte

Slight clarification on channel syntax. I wish to exclude shows on ESPN Classic, which is channel 35 and is referred to in Sage as ESPNCL.

So I set up

wd-channel-ESPNCL

as a keyword favorite. However, my Sage continues to record shows from this channel and the exclude.log states that there are no shows to mark.

So should I be using

wd-channel-35

or

wd-channel-35 ESPNCL

???

Thanks,

Ken

Hi Ken,

it has to be wd-channel-35.

But you can always let the STV generate the Exclude for you: go to the Program Info for any show on ESPNCL, bring up the IR Exclude menu, and select 'Channel' as the criteria. After you created the Exclude, you can check the generated syntax by visiting the FavoriteExcluder menu ...

Dirk