2025-04-13, 09:59 PM
I found the docs you listed about after about 2 days of usage long ago, and they did improve things dramatically. 
But that still doesn't explain why the software has gotten worse at matching over time. Here's a sample of my dir for the "TV" library:
Almost_Human -> good
'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [imdbid-tt0417299]' --> wrong, it shows the 2024 version not the 2005 version
Babylon_5 -> good
Bones -> good
'John_Wayne [imdbid-nm0000078]' -> wrong, but this isn't surprising as it's a person not a "show"
'MASH [imdbid-tt0068098]' -> wrong, it shows "Mashle", not the 1972 TV series
Scorpion -> good
Scorpion-Tivo -> acceptable, gives the blue box and folder name
Victory_at_Sea -> good, but if put in the Movies library it thinks it's a bunch of Romanian (or was it Spanish?) stuff
I used IMDB because the docs say it's supported and I'd never heard of TMDB. So I'd suggest the docs need to be changed to indicate this. A link to TMDB wouldn't hurt either.
Hey, there's a TIP on the "Shows" page that says IMDB isn't supported for shows, which I don't remember reading in the past. Hmm, can we give that the BLINK tag?
It seems a bit weird to support IMDB for movies but not shows, but OK, I'll change.
Let me try changing Avatar and MASH...
mv 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [imdbid-tt0417299]' 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [tmdbid-246]'
mv 'MASH [imdbid-tt0068098]' 'MASH [tmdbid-918]'
Do a rescan for new & updated, wait 10min... Sorry, no change. Did I do something wrong?
BTW, when switching back to the old v6 server, it shows Avatar and MASH correctly, and the exercise video is now available (it's got the blue box and title only, but that's OK for me for something like that). FWIW, it won't play but I think that's because the newly updated client doesn't like a server that old, but I'm about to turn that server off, still the test is informative because it shows the v10 server is having problems.
Now trying:
mv 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [tmdbid-246]' 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender (2005) [tmdbid-246]'
mv 'MASH [tmdbid-918]' 'MASH (1972) [tmdbid-918]'
Do a rescan for new & updated, wait 10min... Sorry, no change. I really can't tell if the problem is me or the software.
Just as a note, the testing is done with the Linux client on the same box my server is on, but the same results show on the Roku client on my TV.
I shouldn't need to restart my server, should I? [Signed out, restarted server, restarted client and logged in, and...] Nope, that didn't help as I still see the wrong images for Avatar and MASH, and the other mis-guesses problems are still there.
Any other suggestions?
But that still doesn't explain why the software has gotten worse at matching over time. Here's a sample of my dir for the "TV" library:Almost_Human -> good
'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [imdbid-tt0417299]' --> wrong, it shows the 2024 version not the 2005 version
Babylon_5 -> good
Bones -> good
'John_Wayne [imdbid-nm0000078]' -> wrong, but this isn't surprising as it's a person not a "show"
'MASH [imdbid-tt0068098]' -> wrong, it shows "Mashle", not the 1972 TV series
Scorpion -> good
Scorpion-Tivo -> acceptable, gives the blue box and folder name
Victory_at_Sea -> good, but if put in the Movies library it thinks it's a bunch of Romanian (or was it Spanish?) stuff
I used IMDB because the docs say it's supported and I'd never heard of TMDB. So I'd suggest the docs need to be changed to indicate this. A link to TMDB wouldn't hurt either.
Hey, there's a TIP on the "Shows" page that says IMDB isn't supported for shows, which I don't remember reading in the past. Hmm, can we give that the BLINK tag?
It seems a bit weird to support IMDB for movies but not shows, but OK, I'll change.Let me try changing Avatar and MASH...
mv 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [imdbid-tt0417299]' 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [tmdbid-246]'
mv 'MASH [imdbid-tt0068098]' 'MASH [tmdbid-918]'
Do a rescan for new & updated, wait 10min... Sorry, no change. Did I do something wrong?
BTW, when switching back to the old v6 server, it shows Avatar and MASH correctly, and the exercise video is now available (it's got the blue box and title only, but that's OK for me for something like that). FWIW, it won't play but I think that's because the newly updated client doesn't like a server that old, but I'm about to turn that server off, still the test is informative because it shows the v10 server is having problems.
Now trying:
mv 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender [tmdbid-246]' 'Avatar_The_Last_Airbender (2005) [tmdbid-246]'
mv 'MASH [tmdbid-918]' 'MASH (1972) [tmdbid-918]'
Do a rescan for new & updated, wait 10min... Sorry, no change. I really can't tell if the problem is me or the software.
Just as a note, the testing is done with the Linux client on the same box my server is on, but the same results show on the Roku client on my TV.
I shouldn't need to restart my server, should I? [Signed out, restarted server, restarted client and logged in, and...] Nope, that didn't help as I still see the wrong images for Avatar and MASH, and the other mis-guesses problems are still there.
Any other suggestions?