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Bridget Peral

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:25:04 PM8/3/24

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Often during the year CBS Splits Face the Nation in two half hour shows, first one on the main channel, the second half on a subchannel (8.1 & 8.2) due to some other high priority show needing the main channel at 9am. I checked schedule and it only shows the first 30 minutes. Nothing for the second half, but the Guide shows both halves with a clock icon like they will both record. Screen shots below.

Split Face the Nation is a long term issue. I have a reminder set to notify me every Sunday morning to check the schedule after its daily update between 9 and 10 AM. In Denver, the full episode is often rebroadcast early Monday morning. I just have to schedule it with at least 30 minutes prior and 60 minutes after to make sure the full episode is recorded. Then a couple of minutes editing and the 46 minutes is ready to view.

I tried manually recording it from the guide. The second one did Not record. On SageTV I have to do a manual "time" record for it to record the second half of FTN on its different channel (subchannel). I have not found the Manual Timed record yet. Can someone point me in the right direction for that? -Bill

You may use the Python file as long as you have Python installed on your system and possibly extra modules too. I'm not exactly sure which modules come pre-installed with the initial Python installation, which may depend on the version and the platform you install it on.
I've been working on and off on this for quite a while and I didn't keep track whether I had to install additional modules.

I think this is the problem: even though you entered your IP address as 10.0.1.21, it looks the app was still using the default 127.0.0.1 to send the request. I have an idea why and should be a quick fix.

Also, the app now saves the server settings to a file in the same directory as the script. The file is called default_cdvr_server_settings.txt and contains just one line of text with the IP address and the port number. You could even modify this file manually as long as you keep the same format.
As long as this file is present in the directory, the app will read it in the very beginning and populate the input fields on the screen. Of course, you still have the option to change them manually.

Double-clicking just opens in a text editor, but I did get it working, although I'm not quite sure how, unfortunately. I think that some of the modules weren't installed correctly in my Python3 setup, so I was going round and round with not-so-intentionally installing and uninstalling, and eventually it just worked. I set up a test recording, and it is now showing in the schedule. Very nice work!

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