[mythtv-users] The watch list could actually be useful with a little work

[Paul Gardiner]

On 26/03/2022 19:12, Peter Bennett wrote:
> On 3/26/22 13:48, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>> On 19/03/2022 18:53, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>> On 3/19/22 12:32, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>>> Maybe I'm missing something but, currently, the watch list seems 
>>>> entirely useless: everything is in there, and it takes an age to 
>>>> find what you want. I never use it. It just struck me that it could 
>>>> be useful if it behaved just a little differently:
>>>>
>>>>  * Recording a series *doesn't* cause that series to be added to the 
>>>> watch list automatically.
>>>>
>>>>  * Watching any episode of a series causes it to be added.
>>>>
>>>>  * There's a way within the UI to explicitly remove a series even 
>>>> though you haven't finished watching it.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure I fancy taking this on, but just thought I'd see what 
>>>> people make of the idea.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>     Paul.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>> This is what leanfront does in the "Recently viewed" list.
>>
>> How do you order your list? I'm struggling to find a timestamp in any 
>> mythtv database table that keeps track of when a program was last viewed.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> leanfront keeps its own database in the android device. The Recently 
> Viewed list is only applicable to what was watched on that device. I 
> know that is not perfect. I do have a script for transferring it from 
> one android device to another but that is an overwrite not a merge, so 
> the receiving device's previous list is then lost.

I don't really find that a problem. I wasn't expecting to be able to 
make use of the leanfront list in mythfrontend, but it does mean that 
improving mythfrontend's watch list would be more difficult than I thought.

The one enhancement I'd like in leanfront's list would be for the next 
of episode of a series to be queued up automatically when you've 
finished the last.