I push all my shows to my Tivo to watch them on the TV. It would be nice if adding tivo compatible metadata was available. This would allow the shows to have the descriptions and image as well as putting them in the right folder instead of all individually.
I am a donator and would donate again for some tivo compatible features.
This was already requested: Pytivo push/notification
this is a bit different, the first request was to sent a command through pytivo so that it would automatically push to my tivo and I wouldn’t have to see what shows have recently downloaded.
This request was to add another option in the metadata area for Tivo so that when I do push it to tivo that it has the data needed to sort it correctly.
Ahh, yes, sorry about that. Is there documention on the metadata format somewhere?
I will see what I can find, there are several tools out there that can read/edit this information so it must be out there.
EDIT1:
I am thinking the information would be here, somewhere.
http://developer.tivo.com/docs
EDIT2:
I think this will do it.
http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Metadata
EDIT3:
thanks for the info. I thought I had these metadata options on seeing the green items below. But now I realize that the grey button is not a disable button but that it is disabled. I have enabled all the XBMC items and we will see how the content populates. My initial testing is showing bad results with both Series and Episodes enabled. Will check it out when the next show comes in. Possibly have to disable the series file.
Edit4:
I have been playing around with the xbmc .nfo file and although pytivo does pull some information out of this it still missing a bit. The most important is the season episode so that it shows up in the preview on the right side of the screen. Without this its not easy to determine the show order if you download an entire season on the same day. You then have to have a print out of episode names and mark them off.
I will hit up the pytivo developers and see if they can enhance their ability to pull from the xbmc .nfo file as well.
Also, if a file with the extension .nfo is found, it is also used as metadata. .nfo files are created for use with XBMC, another media server but pyTivo can now read it’s metadata files.
Seems this is a trend as Media Browser did the same. Doesn’t look like there is a compelling reason to implement this when XBMC metadata will already work.
PS Please edit your posts instead of adding a bunch of new comments. I removed the one with the example because we can get all that from the link.