Time CONTAINS Monday 10pm
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Sorry, not finding anything about the format of the time field.
When creating passes:
When using the API to create a manual recording, it is in Epoch time.
I am not using the API. I am using the Advanced Pass feature.
But there is NO documentation on what needs to be entered the in TIME field.
I posted 2 answers. The first was specific to the time formats used in Channels' webUI fields, which is exactly what you asked for. (It does require reading some technical documentation.) The second was about time formatting for manual recordings. (Conveniently, that is also the topic of this thread.)
In your screenshot it shows "Friday 8:00pm" as a placeholder. That is the expected format.
So you could use any day of the week and time combination in the same format:
Monday 10:00pm
Wednesday 3:30pm
See also:
I did a short manual recording earlier.
I can see it in DVR > Manage:
It is present on the disk:
All good but...
I don't see it in Library > TV Shows > Recently Added:
This is on the server and I also confirmed the same with a client (visible on the "Recordings" screen only).
Is it normal? Maybe it is. I don't remember if that was mentioned before.
What did you use to create the manual recording?
I normally don't use OliveTin (I use my own scripts), but just tried with OliveTin and it works.
Also works when selecting to record as a Movie
Thank you for your reply.
I implemented the functionality in javascript so that it can be used with a Chrome extension right in the browser.
I never got OliveTin to work properly on my Windows machine so I'm trying to create an alternative option.
It is strange that the recording worked but it didn't show up in recently added.
I'm wondering why that is.
Would you mind showing the file details that shows the json attributes (airing data, program ID, etc.)?
Maybe I'm missing something.
I'll have to dig up my old Python script to see if I get the same outcome.
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for TV Show this is what OliveTin reports, but I'm assuming that's what it received in response, not what it sent
Standard Output
{
"ID": "1723335360-ch9003",
"Name": "Manual Recording",
"Time": 1723335360,
"Duration": 360,
"Channels": ["9003"],
"Channel": "",
"DeviceID": "",
"RuleID": "",
"Serial": 0,
"FileID": "",
"Skipped": false,
"Failed": false,
"Dead": false,
"Error": "",
"Airing": {
"Source": "manual",
"Channel": "9003",
"Time": 1723335360,
"Duration": 360,
"Title": "Manual Recording",
"Summary": "Manual recording created with OliveTin for Channels",
"Image": "https://tmsimg.fancybits.co/assets/p9467679_st_h6_aa.jpg",
"SeriesID": "manual/9003"
},
"UpdatedAt": 1723335337765
}
It should have sent this
{
"Name": "Manual Recording",
"Time": 1723335360,
"Duration": 360,
"Channels": ["9003"],
"Airing": {
"Source": "manual",
"Channel": "9003",
"Time": 1723335360,
"Duration": 360,
"Title": "Manual Recording",
"Summary": "Manual recording created with OliveTin for Channels",
"Image": "https://tmsimg.fancybits.co/assets/p9467679_st_h6_aa.jpg",
"SeriesID": "manual/9003"
}
}
for Movie this is what OliveTin reports, but I'm assuming that's what it received in response, not what it sent
Standard Output
{
"ID": "1723336020-ch9003",
"Name": "Manual Recording",
"Time": 1723336020,
"Duration": 360,
"Channels": ["9003"],
"Channel": "",
"DeviceID": "",
"RuleID": "",
"Serial": 0,
"FileID": "",
"Skipped": false,
"Failed": false,
"Dead": false,
"Error": "",
"Airing": {
"Source": "manual",
"Channel": "9003",
"Time": 1723336020,
"Duration": 360,
"Title": "Manual Recording",
"Summary": "Movie manually recorded with OliveTin for Channels",
"Image": "https://tmsimg.fancybits.co/assets/p9467679_st_h6_aa.jpg",
"Categories": ["Movie"],
"MovieID": "manual/9003"
},
"UpdatedAt": 1723335995678
}
It should have sent this
{
"Name": "Manual Recording",
"Time": 1723336020,
"Duration": 360,
"Channels": ["9003"],
"Airing": {
"Source": "manual",
"Channel": "9003",
"Time": 1723336020,
"Duration": 360,
"Title": "Manual Recording",
"Summary": "Movie manually recorded with OliveTin for Channels",
"Image": "https://tmsimg.fancybits.co/assets/p9467679_st_h6_aa.jpg",
"Categories": ["Movie"],
"MovieID": "manual/9003"
}
}
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Thanks. I will compare this with my data and hopefully see where it went wrong for me.
I got it to work. I noticed thanks to the data that you posted, @chDVRuser, that I was missing SeriesID for TV shows, MovieID for movies, as well as Categories.
It makes sense, Channels didn't know what type of program the recording was so it was only showing up in Recordings and nowhere else.
All good now. 
I will continue with the development of my Chrome extension and I will make an announcement whenever it's ready. It will have this manual recording feature among other features. That will be useful for people who don't have OliveTin (like me).
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Thank you very much, looking forward to this extension. I looked through all the OliveTin stuff and the only feature I really want is manual recordings so this will be awesome.
Still scratching my head that this basic DVR feature is not part of the channels UI. It's in almost every other DVR that I've seen, and you shouldn't have to muck around with advanced passes to do something as simple as this.
TiVo has a great interface where you can set single manual recording, repeating on certain days, only on weekends etc. That's exactly what we need because as everybody has said you can't always rely on the guide data, or you only want a certain show to record at a certain time etc.
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Agree (and voted). I previously used TiVo and asked for it to be included in Channels DVR.
After getting tired of waiting, I found a workaround.
I do a lot of workarounds to make Channels DVR work the way I want.
Have to say the devs don't mind you doing the workarounds for things they don't/won't implement.
But that's not going to work for every user that doesn't want to 'tinker' with it.
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Bump, again. These threads are going to keep coming up because people don't understand why it's not part of the UI. There are plenty of sports events that get rained out and rescheduled for the next day, for example. There's no easy way to schedule these except a manual recording or to hack something up with the incorrect guide data. And then maybe you have to skip through 30 minutes of junk that you don't want to get the recording that you do.
If y'all don't want to add it to the clients, just put a simple DVR admin webpage out there. Something like what OliveTin does.
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Hate to say it, but there are only 1926 views of the topic and only 8 votes (not that they even count).
Seems a very small percentage of users want this feature. (Or maybe they just don't understand the need for it until they need it?)
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This feature has been requested many times over the years. The Devs are clearly not interested in adding it.
For those who care, numerous add-ons and work-arounds have been posted. So, this is clearly not an urgent item.
Yep, but a simple admin web UI would be a trivial task for them. Just put it in the DVR section where Schedule and Passes are now. There's no need to have to add on other stuff for this.
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Hey, here's a perfect example! Golf channel has moved up the broadcast of the second round of the Tour Championship to 10 a.m. tomorrow to avoid potential thunderstorms, will that be reflected in the guide? Maybe, maybe not.
But a manual recording would take care of this. And I can't easily hack around some extended recording of what Golf channel is showing in the guide now because it's some ladies golf tournament that doesn't correlate.
Man, this would be so much easier if I could just do a quick schedule with the web UI...
I'm going to keep bumping this with more examples in the future! Lol.
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