Imports?

Channels DVR Server
#41

v2019.11.02.0033 is available now and fixes the JavaScript errors too.

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#42

Just an FYI - I have done some playback of the movies on the Shield. It has been very minimal, like 10 minutes worth of a few different ones, but so far it works well.

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#43

I have about 400 movies in /Volumes/Media/Movies that I use in PLEX. Which I can MARK as watched or not not watched (something like that). And it is by userid. With Channels I have 2 DVR's so my wife and I can have our own list without userid's for now.

  1. Does Channels simply "scan" the folder and add the movie names to a DB? It does not make a copy of the movie I assume.

  2. Going forward do I need to run this command every time I add a new movie to the Moves Folder?
    :8089/dvr/scanner/paths/movies?

  3. And if I remove a movie would the above scan remove from the database any movies that are no longer there?

  4. Is there a way to remove all movies from the database? Maybe point to a new location that is empty?

  5. PLEX autodetects changes to the folder. If that is not coming I could put in a script to scan hourly or something like that? I do that now to check for new release of the pre-release DVR Firmware.

#44

  1. Yes

  2. No

  3. Not currently, but you can run:

curl -XPUT http://x:8089/dvr/scanner/imports/prune

  1. Delete the path you added

curl -XDELETE http://x:8089/dvr/scanner/paths/movies?path=/movies

  1. Rescan happens every five minutes. You can trigger manually:

curl -XPUT http://x:8089/dvr/scanner/scan

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#45

Is there a way to see what folder is defined for imports ?

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#46

This would be a game changer for Channels DVR.
Is this currently for /Movies only?

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#47

Yup..I agree..game changer; I sucessfully imported some
movies stored years ago when Channels first introduced
their DVR product; for an early beta version the imports
went very well and I continue to test viewing and management
function but overall I'm really impressed so far..

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#48

This is great. I tried with a small movie collection and everything worked fine. Playback wise, will the Channels App support frame rate matching?

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#49

Iā€™m running the dvr on docker (on Ubuntu) my nas is mounted and Channels is saving recordings to it but do I need to add the movie mount point to docker for the scanner to be able to see it. Currently getting a no such file or directory error at the moment!

#50

Also is there any way to stop the process as the dvr is stuck in a loop atm.

#51

I explained above that the scanner runs every five minutes, and provided the command to remove a movies source

#53

I have the imports working with multiple source folders but I have a problem with some of my files "matching" to get the ICON and maybe other information.

Can you add support for files with a period in the name. That appears to be a problem.

Example:
7.Days.To.Vegas.2019.1080p.

#54

As requested earlier I need full path and file name for any movies having matching issues. You can PM me a list if you don't want to post publically. But I need the directory name and entire file name.

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#55

Sorry missed it in the excitement! Do I need to add my movies folder as a separate volume to my docker container?

#56

Here is a full example:

[SCN] Imported movie A Walk to Remember (2002) [1080p]/A.Walk.to.Remember.2002.1080p.mp4

Folder is "A Walk to Remember (2002) [1080p]
File name is "A.Walk.to.Remember.2002.1080p.mp4

I can try to remove the periods to see if that works. Does the following required the movies folder? Did not work for me.
curl -XPUT http://x:8089/dvr/scanner/prune

#57

Yes if you want the dvr to see the files then you need to add the folder to the container. How else would it work?

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#58

Sorry that should be:

curl -XPUT http://x:8089/dvr/scanner/imports/prune

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#59

The scanner is getting confused by the [1080p] in the folder name and also because the file name doesn't use the parenthesis and brackets to match. I will need to add support for this next week.

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#60

That worked. What about this one:

curl -XPUT http://x:8089/dvr/scanner/scan

#61

Here are a couple more NOT in a folder:

These 2 did not match:
Imported movie Taken 2 (Unrated Cut).mp4
Imported movie Taken 3 (Unrated).mp4

Strange this one worked but with a different name in Channels:
Imported movie Taken (Extended Cut).mp4

It is showing as "Taken: Extended Cut (2008)