I have one show "Fifth Gear" that records from Pluto TV Cars. I use "Pluto for Channels" v1.2.9. In the Library each episode has episode and season data, and sorts by Season but there is only "All" in the Season selector.
Is there a trick to get the seasons showing up in the selector?
It may be getting classified as a sport event, these forgo seasons.
That sounds quite likely - any way I can check that.
I am not seeing "sport" in the debug log.
It unless you use the API. This uses the categories peppery which isn’t really exposed.
If you still have a recorded file you can view the recorded file json data to view the Categories.
View Details of the recorded episode to get the File ID#.
Then view the recorded file json
If the File ID is 1234, then view http://127.0.0.1:8089/dvr/files/1234 (replace 127.0.0.1 with your DVR's IP address and 1234 with the File ID)
As far as I know Pluto only uses these Categories: Movie, Series and Sports
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Thanks for that - the json shows it is category Series
"Categories":["Series"],"Genres":["News and Information","Entertaining","News"]
Ahh, it’s News that did it.
Here's how Gracenote lists it.
Fifth Gear (2002)
"SeriesID": "386012"
"tmsId": "SH006675870000"
"Categories": ["Show", "Sports non-event"]
"Genres": ["Auto", "Consumer"]
Yeah, but your recording came from the third party source, Pluto, which carries its own metadata.
True, and Pluto's genres are a mess.
He could always move them to a local import path and have them matched with Gracenote metadata Zap2it.com - Fifth Gear
Might be worth trying that with a few episodes to see how it looks.
Great Idea, and it did provide better metadata, but still just All for seasons.
Some of the episodes on Gracenote don't have episode descriptions, just the boilerplate one for the show
"New-car reviews, second-hand bargains and industry news."
I'm guessing it's because Gracenote uses "Categories": ["Episode","Sports non-event"]
and Channels DVR sees "Sports"
Only a dev would know for sure.
I confirmed by importing a few.
That does appear to be the problem.
I created a couple manual 60 second recordings using the same metadata, but changed Categories
from "Categories": ["Episode","Sports non-event"]
to "Categories": ["Episode","Series"]
and it works.
Yeah, it was confirmed up too.