[Calado]

Hi. Honestly I don't know if this was asked already, since I don't know "how to search" for this info. I apologize in advance if I just get linked to another thread.

I'm struggling with the new added episodes for ongoing shows. I use Medusa to automatically download the episodes of the shows I don't have access to with my TV provider, including premium channels and Netflix (or to recover lost episodes from shows I decided to go on hiatus). As a new episode is downloaded, Kodi puts it in a list of ongoing shows, but if I deleted all previous episodes it no longer shows in that special list. As an example, someone asked me if I'd seen Preacher's season premiere and, because I deleted the previous seasons/episodes, I didn't even know the show had a new episode released. As I checked, I have the episode ready to watch, and I also have a ton of unwatched episodes from other shows. If I don't delete the previous episode, this doesn't happen.

Now, hoping I made myself clear about the issue, is there a way of telling Kodi that, despite there are no files in that shows folder, it is still ongoing? Also, tell it to don't alert me for certain shows (maybe if I decide to go on another hiatus)?

Regards,
Calado

Edit: by the way, I don't know if this info is necessary, but I'm running LibreElec 8.2.5 on a C2. Cheers

[pkscout]

It might be helpful to post a few screen shots.  I'm trying to figure out of MedUSA downloads stuff and then loads it into the Kodi library or if it has some other addon it uses to show stuff.  The Google searching I did on MedUSA didn't really help clarify that.

[Calado]

It might be helpful to post a few screen shots.  I'm trying to figure out of MedUSA downloads stuff and then loads it into the Kodi library or if it has some other addon it uses to show stuff.  The Google searching I did on MedUSA didn't really help clarify that.

Medusa is completely unrelated to Kodi. It's just an automated downloader and file organizer. https://github.com/pymedusa/Medusa

The problem is how Kodi is handling new files.

When the file is downloaded and put in the TV show's folder, Kodi detects the new items and puts them in the library. In my case, Watchdog add-on is monitoring new files.

If I select the TV Shows tab, it shows different lists as "Recently added episodes", "Random episodes" and "In Progress TV Shows". This last one is the issue. If a new episode is detected by Watchdog, it always goes to the "Recently added episodes" list (where I rarely look), but if an episode is from a show that I'm currently watching, there are two possible outcomes. a) the previous episodes were deleted and the show stops being recognized as "in progress"; b) there is at least one previous episode with watched status and the show pops up in the "in progress" list.

This "In Progress TV Shows" duality is the issue. I don't know how to keep a show tagged as "in progress" unless I keep watched episodes.

This is said list:


Cheers.

[pkscout]

Thanks.  That helped.  The short answer is that you can't do what you want with the default Kodi skin.  In progress TV shows are defined as shows that have at least one unwatched episode by something called a video node, and there isn't anyway that I know of to define a video node that is unwatched and in progress TV shows.  There are two ways to fix that.  As it happens, I have a Kodi mod that added a home screen widget option called In progress/Unwatched TV Shows that does what you want.  If you're interested in trying that, see:

For Kodi 17:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=303946

For Kodi 18:
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=333143

[Calado]

That's just about what I was looking for. Such a simple change with so much value.

Any show with unwatched episodes is now highlighted. Now, is there a way to filter a show I haven't started to watch or I decided to leave on pause?

Cheers

[pkscout]

There's not going to be an easy way to do that.  There might be a way to manually add and delete shows as additional filter criteria in the playlist by title.  Here's the XML structure of the playlist that creates that widget:

xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<smartplaylist type="tvshows">

    <name>Unwatched and in Progress TV shows</name>

    <match>all</match>

    <rule field="playcount" operator="is">

        <value>0</value>

    </rule>

    <limit>15</limit>

    <order direction="ascending">random</order>

</smartplaylist>

If you add a series of rules with something like field="title" (although I have no idea what the right field name is) and an operator of "not" that might work.