Favorites

[silverscout 7]

Since I am at work and left my cell at home.. I can't play and want to know the answer, if any, of how and if favorites have been implemented?

 

Is channel Favorites implemented?  I know one solution is to change the channel Number.  This would confuse the GF greatly and I for one like to sleep on the bed.  

 

The only issue I see having Favorites is making them user specific if they store in WMC it wont be user specific.   

 

I guess something like go to channel (there is a request for this already), then have MB3 keep the favorites in it's Data Store per user. 

 

out of all 375 or so channels I probably only watch about 6 and my gf watches about 20 to 30....  

 

Also does the parental lock for ratings work on TV as well.  I would love to take away her MurderPron (See investigative discovery channel) sometimes for the lulz..  yes I do have a death-wish, why do you ask?  lol. 

 

 

If some archeologist took a look at frequent channels and tried to guess what type of family lives here..  They would get confused and make up something bizarre..  top 3 channels,  Investigative Discovery, National Geographic and Cartoon Network.  also, we have no kids unless dogs count. 

 

 

 

[krustyreturns 191]

lol.  Was that supposed to be 'murderporn' or 'murderprawn'? with the disc channel either is possible.  

 

Favorites have not been implemented in mbs.  Serverwmc supports them (actually just imports them from wmc), and the mbs guys want to get to it for live-tv but not in this go around.  There are a couple of different ways in the interum, besides renumbering:

 

1) you can disable the channels you don't watch in mbs, they won't be imported if you do (I know this one sucks, but just trying to be complete).

 

2) its possible to define a channel group in wmc (call it 'mediabrowser' for example) and then set serverwmc so that it just imports this group into mbs.  I can tell you how to set this up if you are interested.  So far as I know its untested in mbs.

[MrWebsmith 598]

could you then create channel groups geared for each user... even if all users can see all groups that sounds like it may help the OP.. 1 group for him 1 group for his GF and the channels they most care about respectively in each group...

 

id be interested in trying to make a group myself.. ive already had good success disabling the channels down to the "core lineup" but a group would cover my households needs for right now for "favorite channels"

 

no rush but if you dont mind posting some of the criticial steps ill try it out and see if mbs likes it or not...my swmc/mbs setup has been very solid from day 1

Edited May 23, 2014 by MrWebsmith

[silverscout 7]

Let me know how to do #2 (all puns intended for the lulz  ).   I helped Test MB3 when it was in Beta I can help test this. 

 

Either Murderporn or Muderprawn can be used.  She is in the medical field and scares me.  I don't know why she watches most of them.  She can tell what type of poisen the person used based on the symptoms they release in the first 5 minutes.  Also, what they should have done to hide it better.  She also uses that channel to go to sleep on as it helps her relax.   I refuse to watch the shows with her, when she asks me why I tell her that I like have my death a mystery and although these shows have many different types of ways to die.  I don't like Death Roulette either.  

 

I already have TV Recordings going and have Mce Buddy compressing them.  Trying to figure out if I want MB3 moving the tv shows or move them via powershell.  

 

we should really have a place here for users scripts they are willing to share.  I wonder how many people want to share? lol. 

[krustyreturns 191]

@@MrWebsmith

You can't create groups based on user. Serverwmc can map a wmc channel group to a client.  Normally a client is the name or ip address of the machine that is connecting to serverwmc using xbmc.  We added this feature because parents who were installing rpi's and the like in their kids rooms only wanted them to have access to restricted groups of channels.  And to recordings that were only recorded on those channels.

 

@@silverscout

 

Serverwmc treats mbs as a client, so in this case rather than using the machine name/ip it uses the key name: MediaBrowser^  (note the carrot, it needs to be there).  I am confusing myself too, but I think an example will clear it up:

 

1) create a channel group (i.e. 'favorites') in wmc with the channels you want mbs to have access to.  Give the group any name you want, for this example I'll call it: mbs

2) open the config.xml file that serverwmc uses (see the debug tab or %programdata%\vdsoftware\serverwmc\config.xml)

3) toward the end of the log set the field ClientRestrictionEnabled to true

4) further down create a client restriction by editing the dummy one you see there, change it to

<ClientRestrictions>

    <ClientRestriction> 

      <Client>MediaBrowser^</Client>

      <RestrictChannels>RestrictToGroups</RestrictChannels>

      <RestrictRecordings>RestrictToGroups</RestrictRecordings>

      <Groups>mbs</Groups>

    </ClientRestriction>

  </ClientRestrictions>

 

you can enter more than one channel group in the 'Groups' field, separated by commas if you want.  You can both restrict the recordings and the channels.  Recordings that were recorded from a restricted channel will be restricted too if desired. There are three restriction choices:

Unrestricted

RestrictToGroups

RestrictAll

 

Probably for your purpose you want to set the recording restriction as 'Unrestricted'.  After saving the config.xml, restart serverwmc and then mbs.

 

This works for xbmc, I see no reason it won't work for mbs too.  But you know, I get surprised all the time.  If you decide to try it, let me know how it goes, or if you need help.

Edited May 23, 2014 by krustyreturns

[silverscout 7]

I got good news and bad news..  

 

Good news, it works like a charm. 

Bad News. I forgot to make a backup of the config ..    it is easy enough to back out though.  

 

1 side effect - Everything wants to re-scan (the whole library) which is a small side affect. 

[krustyreturns 191]

Great, the good news is good and the bad news isn't a problem.  

 

FYI to you and others: If you look toward the start of the serverwmc log it lists all the config values that are different than the default, so if you want to, you can just rename the config file to something else for backup, restart serverwmc and it will create a config file with all default values, then you can use the log to go back to what you had.  In your case all you need to do is set ClientRestrictionEnabled back to 'false' to go back to what you had before.

 

I assume it only re-scanned the whole library becauch the channel line up changed, it doesn't re-scan all the time, right?  And since you reduced the channels significantly, the mbs rescan should be very fast.  

 

Curious, did you also filter the recordings?  I wonder how well that works too.  Thanks for trying and following up.  I really have to set my mbs up this way.

Edited May 24, 2014 by krustyreturns

[overClocked! 63]

@@MrWebsmith

 

This works for xbmc, I see no reason it won't work for mbs too.  But you know, I get surprised all the time.  If you decide to try it, let me know how it goes, or if you need help.

 

Woo-Hoo". Indeed, this works perfectly for both the Guide and the Channels listing. I have more than 500 channels, so it was nice to be able to leverage the WMC favorite lineups in Media Browser Live TV in the Web Client. I don't even mind editing the XML file. Easy to do with your detailed instructions.

 

I also have used Remote Potato for a few years and wished that the developer who took over that liveTV maintenance portion of the server would switch over to a back end like serverwmc that actually works like it's supposed to.

 

Krusty, you are THE MAN!!

[spyke562 0]

Hi Everyone,

 

Does this solution still work on the newer versions of WMC and Emby?  This was working for me as well however I just noticed it does't appear to be working anymore.  I have my Favorites listed in the XML and in WMC.

 

I am on ServerWMC 1.0.0.67 and Emby 3.0.5912.0

 

 

Thanks for any information.

 

Ian...