Force media folder refresh?

[aflat]

I tend to move new videos into my media folders often, and I have Sage setup to automatically refresh from the folders, but I'd like to make it refresh more often, or use something like Dirmon to tell sage to rebuild again. Even better would be to have it just rebuild part of the library, instead of everything(like just rebuild videos, but leave pictures and music alone)

I am using SageMC so I'm not sure if something like this is built in already.

[QueOnda]

Can't answer your question but you can manually do it from the Webadmin or by going to the default Sage tv (in the settings somewhere).

[jaminben]

You can force a refresh by using the options key on the bottom menu items of the movie screen.

[MeInMaui]

Go to the video library and with one of the menu buttons on the left focused, bring up the options menu. Select the first item and then choose whether or not to do the rescan in the background (I always do). It can take a few minutes, but it will pop up a notification when complete.

Aloha,
Mike

[Texas-Hansen]

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd ask a related question in this one.

Is it best to set the HD200 to automatically rescan the import folders or leave it at manual and just rescan when needed to add anything added to your shares over time? I guess another related question is if I set it to automatically rescan the import folders, does it use a lot of resources and do scans at inconvenient times?

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by Texas-Hansen

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd ask a related question in this one.

Is it best to set the HD200 to automatically rescan the import folders or leave it at manual and just rescan when needed to add anything added to your shares over time? I guess another related question is if I set it to automatically rescan the import folders, does it use a lot of resources and do scans at inconvenient times?

I think it's mostly a matter of preference. I do all rescans manually because I know when I add new media and I usually want to get access to it immediately. It doesn't seem to take up to much in resources.

Aloha,
Mike

[jaminben]

I use both methods, one for when I want to watch something as soon as I put it on my server and the other when I'm not too fussed about watching it straight away.

[aflat]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

Go to the video library and with one of the menu buttons on the left focused, bring up the options menu. Select the first item and then choose whether or not to do the rescan in the background (I always do). It can take a few minutes, but it will pop up a notification when complete.

Aloha,
Mike

Is there a way I can make something like DirMon call that command from a command line? If not, I'm guessing there are api's to get to it, so I could write something, but no need to do the work if it is already there.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by aflat

Is there a way I can make something like DirMon call that command from a command line? If not, I'm guessing there are api's to get to it, so I could write something, but no need to do the work if it is already there.

Stuckless recently wrote a remote API for SageTV that would probably let you write up a command line utility. You could also check to see if something like Sage Job Queue offers that functionality. I don't know.

Aloha,
Mike

[nyplayer]

I use wget to refresh through command line using Nielm's webserver

del "C:\wget\GlobalCommand@command=ForceEpgUpdate"
C:\wget\wget.exe --tries=3 --directory-prefix="C:\wget" "http://user:password@severname:8080/sage/GlobalCommand?command=ForceEpgUpdate"