[kwlug-disc] KODI & TV

[B.S.]

> logic flawed somewhere in my script

Unlikely. Computers are always right. More likely logic flawed in the programmer. :-)

[More likely - GIGO. If the 'providers' don't consistently / correctly / completely name things, parsers can't identify that a thunk is indeed what it should further process. Which is essentially what Kodi addon developers run in to - sites being scraped from change the URLs / request strings for accessing content, giving the addon developer a constantly moving target they can't keep up with. Easy example, if you set to only fetch H.264 content, and they stop putting H.264 in the name, or go from .mpg extensions to .m4v or .mp4, or vice versa - unhappiness ensues.]


Anywho, reason for posting ...

Cranky was talking about RSS feeds (from eztv.ag?). Charles is talking about torrent triggering / catching.

So I'm confused ... unless, the RSS is actually feeding .torrent's that are then automatically used to trigger fetching of the torrent itself?


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> From: Charles McColm
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 9:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] KODI & TV
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>> Interesting stuff, Charles.  I may need you to teach this noob a few things about it!
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>>I think where I run into trouble is that while I use the Synology for the torrents, it doesn't have Kodi. 
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>It's not so much KODI but Transmission bit torrent client running in web browser mode. I played a lot with Flexget recipes and even after several weeks of tweaking I didn't have things perfect; the odd time I'd miss an episode for some odd reason (logic flawed
somewhere in my script). It was a process for sure. The nice thing about Flexget is that it lets you test your rules before actually running the script, so you can see what would be added before it's added. Flexget basically grabs the torrents and puts them
in whatever folder you specify. You just set Transmission to autodownload from torrents in that folder and you're set.
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>Funny enough I stopped right about the time we cut the cable TV cord. I suppose I felt less guilty about getting the shows I wanted while I was still paying for TV, but the probably truth is I just didn't feel like there was much worth watching anymore.