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

[Paul Gardiner]

On 27/03/2022 18:13, Peter Bennett wrote:
> 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 

Oh! Somehow I'd not before seen those recommendations for the settings. 
Following that advice provides pretty much exactly what I was wanting.

Paul.