Is there a way to create a recordings list entry when a file is dropped into a folder defined in a Personal Media folder? I have two instances of Channels DVR, a primary one that is capable of running cc4c, and a secondary server which is not. The secondary server has a personal media source which is pointed directly at a folder in the primary server's library containing the cc4c recordings. This works fine but the only way to access the recordings from the secondary server is to use the library interface. It would be cool (and spouse friendly) if new recordings could appear in the recordings list, with an action button to immediately view it. CoPilot seems to think that there is an undocumented notify API endpoint that the DVR engine uses, it's probably making that up, but is there?
Perhaps a playlist created using rules for that particular group or other identifier? But in the chronological "Recordings" page, highly doubtful.
Have you tried it? If so, does it work? Otherwise, I'm inclined to ignore any content that is prefaced by "CoPilot/ChatGPT/Claude/&c. says ..." (For most any technical related content, those dumb generative "AI" tools will do nothing but give you partial or wrong information, as the content they scraped was from more than 6 months ago, and things have likely changed.)
I've found ChatGPT and CoPilot to be incredibly useful, if used properly. It's not simply regurgitating old information. That said, it will offer completely bogus information sometimes. In this case, it claims that the /notify endpoint used to exist, but now it doesn't. I can confirm that all combinations of "notify" (server:8089/notify, server:8089/api/notify, and server:8089/api/v1/notify) all return 404. There is a client notify api endpoint, but that's not what I want. I'm not sure that "notify" is what I want at all. It seems likely that the interface to the recordings list is not exposed in any way, meaning that only a direct database entry could do it. Maybe one of the devs can elucidate?
No, because they're not recordings, they're imported personal media. And there's no way to hack it.
@racameron's suggestion of using a Playlist is the right one. You can create your own list view using Smart Rules and essentially fake it.
Name the playlist "Recordings". Create a Smart Rule to pull in Episodes as a category. Then set the sort to Date Added. Now you'll have something that looks just like the Recordings section. You can even use it as a Personal Section and put it in your navigation and your wife will never notice.
You'll need to be using the Apple TV client though as Android does not support Playlists or Personal Sections.
Also, be sure you pull in the latest pre-release as we just published a fix to even allow this to work without overloading your browser. Previously if you created a smart rule like this, it would put EVERY episode in the list in the browser. And for large libraries, this could overload the browser. It is now truncated to 50 items.
If the recordings list is backed by a collection of "recording" objects, maybe it would be straightforward to add a source of such objects from the library. Is that worth a feature request?
DOH!
Are those features coming to the Fire TV client?
? Because the entire point of that section is to only show items recorded from live TV.
Heh - I would have said the same thing! Thanks for your attention.