[mythtv-users] mythtv-leanfront v0-46

[James Abernathy]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 11:18 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11/19/19 7:28 AM, James Abernathy wrote:
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> I'm somewhat confused about the bookmarks in this release.  In previous
> releases it worked as I expected. I'm setup for the mythtv scheme and not
> local. So when I used to open leanfront the watched icons matched what I'd
> see in mythfrontend.  Today on v0-46 I rewatched a recording that was
> marked "watched" since my wife had watched it on another frontend.  When I
> finished it was not marked watched anymore either in leanfront or back on
> mythfrontend. I went back into mythfrontend and marked it watched and now
> it's marked watched in leanfront again.
>
> leanfront marks recordings as watched when you play or forward to the end.
> It marks them unwatched when you start watching again. Perhaps this is not
> the best way. This is inconsistent with mythfrontend, but I did not have
> another way of resetting the watched indicator. I have not figured out how
> to add a menu yet.
>
> I've done more research on the out of order list of recording on
> leanfront. The Pilot of Bluff City Law is always the furthermost right
> thumbnail even when new episodes are recorded. The newest recording moves
> to second from the end on the right. I can't see any file date issues but
> if I go to mythfrontend and look at the list of episodes I see a
> difference.  The pilot has the name of the episode in quotes followed by
> the episode number (1x01) but next it has the recording date in parentheses
> whereas the other episodes do not have the date in parentheses. All
> recordings have the date and station name on the first line of the
> information but only the other of order Pilot has that date in parentheses.
>
> The sort is by original air date and then the recording date. The idea is
> that if something was recorded on a rerun you will still see it in the
> original sequence. If both dates match there is only one date displayed. If
> they are different the recording date is not in parentheses and the
> original air date is displayed in parentheses. Does the pilot show two
> dates, one in parentheses? Perhaps the original air date is wrong or
> missing on some episodes.
>

The Pilot date is the same as the recorded date so the parentheses date is
the same. Also the file date is the same allowing for timezone. I've only
seen this with one TV series so I'm not really concerned.

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> I'm puzzled by when leanfront refreshes it's list of recordings. I
> apparently left leanfront by hitting home and not backing all the way out.
> I then watch youtube.tv and this morning when I went to leanfront it was
> on the screen I left last night and none of the new recordings were
> listed.  I had to back out and restart leanfront.
>
> Refresh is a bit of a problem. It should refresh once per hour but only on
> the main screen (the one that has the recording groups on the left an the
> MythTV icon at the top). If you are on a group screen (group name or All at
> the top) it would not refresh. So you should only need to back out as far
> as the main screen. Perhaps that is not working.
>

Backing out to the screen with All, Defaults, Settings doesn't refresh as
far as I've seen. I've only seen it when going back and forth in testing.
Normal use, not an issue.  However, if you are watching a recording in
prime time, it's likely another recording will finish before you exit out
to the main menu.
Not a big deal.  The fact that the jerky playback is gone and the skip
works so easily like mythfrontend is all I need really.

Jim A.
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