Plex Scanner and BMT Agent for SageTV

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Success!! here are 2 screens of things working nicely. i will put a new bmtagent init.py file attached to this post for those that want access right away, and will update the google code site as soon as i get a free moment.

If you can attach the py file. Thanks.

[PiX64]

Directions:

1) Remove SageTV recordings section from plex library
2) clean bundles in plex media manager (see screenshot)
3) Empty Trash in plex media manager (see screenshot) MAKE SURE IT EMPTIES. it will give an error otherwise
4) shutdown plex
5) replace init.py in BMTAgentTVShows with file from this post
6) restart plex
7) in media manager go into settings -> Agents -> TVshows and make sure that theme music is still contributing to BMTAgent
8) readd your sagetv section, and let it scan


**** Note that I am still working out 1 issue that cropped up in which plex fails to serialize my metadata object created. most shows are find, but a handful of them end up failing and showing up in media library with no metadata :-/ this was present before as well, just thrown out by the code for some reason..

[PiX64]

just in case anyone wants to follow along with progress on the plex serialization issue, here is the link:

you prolly have to be a plexpass member in order to view though, i think

http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/...ization-error/

[nyplayer]

No more purple haze thanks.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

No more purple haze thanks.

welcome.

still working on the other issue but the plexians aren't being very responsive.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by PiX64

welcome.

still working on the other issue but the plexians aren't being very responsive.

That is ok most of the shows found metadata except for a few mostly old series for that I did custom scan and used TVDB.

[PiX64]

So here is what I have found:

For whatever reason (still not sure why) certain shows (randomly from what i can tell) have malformed XML or json returned from the sage server. This causes 2 things to happen in plex
1) the search/update function fail
2) the xml is imporperly built inside of plex code which then causes a serialization exception.

I have no idea exactly why this is happening, but the fact is, it is.

so what are everyones thoughts on this:

1) scan sage recordings / movies.
2) IF there is a season and episode number found by the scanner, use the default TVDB metadata agent
3) if no results are found by tvdb OR there are no valid season and episode numbers, the use the BMT Agent code

tech. this should be feasible. I don't have it working as of yet, but i think it is a better option than what we have setup now.

Thoughts?

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by PiX64

So here is what I have found:

For whatever reason (still not sure why) certain shows (randomly from what i can tell) have malformed XML or json returned from the sage server. This causes 2 things to happen in plex
1) the search/update function fail
2) the xml is imporperly built inside of plex code which then causes a serialization exception.

I have no idea exactly why this is happening, but the fact is, it is.

so what are everyones thoughts on this:

1) scan sage recordings / movies.
2) IF there is a season and episode number found by the scanner, use the default TVDB metadata agent
3) if no results are found by tvdb OR there are no valid season and episode numbers, the use the BMT Agent code

tech. this should be feasible. I don't have it working as of yet, but i think it is a better option than what we have setup now.

Thoughts?

That sounds good to me.

[darcilicious]

Originally Posted by PiX64

so what are everyones thoughts on this:

1) scan sage recordings / movies.
2) IF there is a season and episode number found by the scanner, use the default TVDB metadata agent
3) if no results are found by tvdb OR there are no valid season and episode numbers, the use the BMT Agent code

tech. this should be feasible. I don't have it working as of yet, but i think it is a better option than what we have setup now.

Thoughts?

Sounds good to me!

[Taddeusz]

I have no idea if this has anything to do with the serialization issues.

The problem I'm having is that we had a power outage on Thursday night. No recordings since then are showing up in Plex. Everything up to before the power outage is accounted for in Plex.

I have tried restarting both Plex and SageTV as well as the entire system. I have also reinstalled the sagex-services plugin.

Is there anything specific I need to be doing to get this back up and running? Everything else in SageTV seems to be functioning normally.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

I have no idea if this has anything to do with the serialization issues.

The problem I'm having is that we had a power outage on Thursday night. No recordings since then are showing up in Plex. Everything up to before the power outage is accounted for in Plex.

I have tried restarting both Plex and SageTV as well as the entire system. I have also reinstalled the sagex-services plugin.

Is there anything specific I need to be doing to get this back up and running? Everything else in SageTV seems to be functioning normally.

Is the plex.js file still present on the sage server? try performing a DEEP scan of the section and see if that fixes anything. I would also check to make sure that the plex server is still set to scan the recording directory at the interval you originally specified.

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Is the plex.js file still present on the sage server? try performing a DEEP scan of the section and see if that fixes anything. I would also check to make sure that the plex server is still set to scan the recording directory at the interval you originally specified.

Yes, I had already tried a deep scan. I have also just tried removing the section for my SageTV recordings and doing it all over again. Now nothing is showing in that section.

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by PiX64

Is the plex.js file still present on the sage server? try performing a DEEP scan of the section and see if that fixes anything. I would also check to make sure that the plex server is still set to scan the recording directory at the interval you originally specified.

Yes, plex.js is still there.

[Taddeusz]

Upon further inspection it appears that sagex isn't working. If I try, for example,

http://myserver/sagex/api?c=GetMediaFiles&1=T

I get a 404 error. It shows that sagex-services is installed. I'm not sure why it's not working.

[Taddeusz]

Ok, sagex-services is definitely working now. I get api query results now. No more 404 error. Plex is still not finding anything though.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

Ok, sagex-services is definitely working now. I get api query results now. No more 404 error. Plex is still not finding anything though.

You know what is really weird I just checked my plex hadn't used it in a while and the last data it added was 3 days ago. It does not appear to be updating.

01, 2013 14:00:10:356 [2644] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\SAGETVUSER\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 84, in Scan
    VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)
TypeError: Scan() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] ERROR - We got an error scanning in N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] DEBUG -     * Scanning directory N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode (parent: yes)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] DEBUG -     * Noting that 'tmpEncode' was updated at 2013-06-30 23:04:17
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] DEBUG -     * Taking directory 'tmpEncode' (2) out of the map (6 left)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode\Matlock-S02E04-TheAnnihilator-1885591-0.tmp
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode\Morning Drive - 2011-01-04 -5204587-0.tmp
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\SAGETVUSER\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 84, in Scan
    VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)
TypeError: Scan() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] ERROR - We got an error scanning in N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:435 [2644] ERROR - There were errors scanning location: N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:435 [2644] DEBUG - Since it was an incomplete scan, we are not going to whack missing media.
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:481 [2644] DEBUG - Refreshing section 1 of type: 2

Latest Scan

Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\Wolverine - S01E12 - Logan - 2011-03-25 -5048299-0.renamed
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\Wolverine - S01E12 - Logan - 2011-03-25 -5048299-0.VPrj
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\SAGETVUSER\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 84, in Scan
    VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)
TypeError: Scan() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] ERROR - We got an error scanning in N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG -     * Scanning directory N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode (parent: yes)
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG -     * Noting that 'tmpEncode' was updated at 2013-07-01 14:06:40
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG -     * Taking directory 'tmpEncode' (2) out of the map (6 left)
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:839 [5480] ERROR - There were errors scanning location: N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:839 [5480] DEBUG - Since it was an incomplete scan, we are not going to whack missing media.
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:870 [5480] DEBUG - Refreshing section 1 of type: 2

[Taddeusz]

There must have been some corruption in the Plex database. I completely uninstalled and reinstalled Plex. Then put the SageTV scanners and plugin back in. Now it's scanning and finding all my recordings again.

[nyplayer]

My Problem is different. I just simply switched to the built in Scanner and it added the 3 days worth of missing data. I will keep it that way till the next release thanks.

[Taddeusz]

Well, SageTV TV recordings are working fine but Movie recordings still aren't showing up.

[PiX64]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

You know what is really weird I just checked my plex hadn't used it in a while and the last data it added was 3 days ago. It does not appear to be updating.

01, 2013 14:00:10:356 [2644] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\SAGETVUSER\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 84, in Scan
    VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)
TypeError: Scan() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] ERROR - We got an error scanning in N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] DEBUG -     * Scanning directory N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode (parent: yes)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] DEBUG -     * Noting that 'tmpEncode' was updated at 2013-06-30 23:04:17
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:372 [2644] DEBUG -     * Taking directory 'tmpEncode' (2) out of the map (6 left)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode\Matlock-S02E04-TheAnnihilator-1885591-0.tmp
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode\Morning Drive - 2011-01-04 -5204587-0.tmp
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\SAGETVUSER\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 84, in Scan
    VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)
TypeError: Scan() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:388 [2644] ERROR - We got an error scanning in N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:435 [2644] ERROR - There were errors scanning location: N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:435 [2644] DEBUG - Since it was an incomplete scan, we are not going to whack missing media.
Jul 01, 2013 14:00:10:481 [2644] DEBUG - Refreshing section 1 of type: 2

Latest Scan

Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\Wolverine - S01E12 - Logan - 2011-03-25 -5048299-0.renamed
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG - Adding file for scanner: N:\SAGEN\Wolverine - S01E12 - Logan - 2011-03-25 -5048299-0.VPrj
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] ERROR - Error in Python: Running scanner:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\SAGETVUSER\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Scanners\Series\SageTV Scanner.py", line 84, in Scan
    VideoFiles.Scan(path, files, mediaList, subdirs)
TypeError: Scan() takes exactly 5 arguments (4 given)
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] ERROR - We got an error scanning in N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG -     * Scanning directory N:\SAGEN\tmpEncode (parent: yes)
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG -     * Noting that 'tmpEncode' was updated at 2013-07-01 14:06:40
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:807 [5480] DEBUG -     * Taking directory 'tmpEncode' (2) out of the map (6 left)
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:839 [5480] ERROR - There were errors scanning location: N:\SAGEN
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:839 [5480] DEBUG - Since it was an incomplete scan, we are not going to whack missing media.
Jul 01, 2013 14:10:34:870 [5480] DEBUG - Refreshing section 1 of type: 2

Your scans are failing because .tmp is not a valid extension. More importantly the scanner code does not specifically exclude it.