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

[Peter Bennett]

On 3/27/22 12:07, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 27/03/2022 14:09, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> On 3/27/22 06:41, Paul Gardiner wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2022 21:47, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Yeah, "Queued up" is not the best phrase. I meant, if I go back to 
>>> the list after finishing one episode, I see the next episode already 
>>> in there. I hadn't noticed autoplay. That sounds as good. I'll give 
>>> it a try.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> Another thing you may not have noticed: In the episode details page 
>> or during playback if you press down arrow you see a list of the 
>> episodes of the series that are not yet watched or deleted. This list 
>> can be customized in the settings as to whether it should show 
>> watched or deleted episodes or not. You can select the next episode 
>> from there and play it.
>
> I had found that feature: not knowing of autoplay, I've been using 
> that feature to play just a few seconds of the next episode to make it 
> appear in the recently viewed list, although I may have been making it 
> unnecessarily awkward - ensuring I played the current episode to the 
> very end, and then stopping it before using down arrow to find the next.
>
See this link in the documentation

https://github.com/bennettpeter/android-MythTV-Leanfront#to-easily-get-back-to-a-series-you-were-watching-recently

Peter