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

[Peter Bennett]

On 3/26/22 15:58, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I am not sure what you mean by "Queued Up". There is the ability to make 
it automatically play the next episode when it finishes the current one. 
This is the button called "Play Related Videos" in the On Screen Display 
during playback. If you activate that, it will continue playing all 
episodes of a series unit you stop it. I should rename it as "Autoplay" 
because that is what the streaming services call it. I also am 
considering adding a setting to allow users to have it automatically 
activated for all playback, instead of having to go in and select it 
after starting playback.

Peter