Tvheadend

Not entirely sure why you'd want to import into the library but anyway:

You can't import into a library source that is configured for TV Shows, as the contents of TV show sources are scraped against an online database to verify the season & episode are valid & load metadata.

You can add a video source into which stuff like this can be loaded, https://kodi.wiki/view/Custom_video_entries

If you really want to give your news programs series & episode numbers, you could do this via post-processing if you're OK with writing a script. All the script would have to do is rename the file with arbitrary series/episode numbers & send a message to the TVH API to tell it about the name change.

Thanks for your reply.

I am new to this and only just getting my head around how front end (kodi) handles what TVH records.

It sounds like really a kodi library problem I am having.

After a lot of searching it appears what I want to achieve isn’t quite the norm. Basically, all my tv shows come from recordings with the bulk of these being modern shows which have data online and scrapers can sort out from my guide source which proves series information.

So, 99% of my library appears perfectly and probably how a lot of others sort their library.

With only a handful of recordings, like my local news being without the series info, this is why I prefer to use the tvshow folder rather than a video folder. I guess it also saves me writing NFO files for the 99% of the other shows if I went down the path of using the video folder.

I have absolutely no experience in writing scripts…. Up for the challenge and will start searching.

Any tips!!??

Thanks.

Well before you dive into writing scripts, I'll ask - why don't you use the TVHeadend PVR addon for viewing stuff like news?

Mark Fuller wrote:

I have absolutely no experience in writing scripts…. Up for the challenge and will start searching.

That's a deep hole to dive into... Before you do that I'll ask - why not use the TVHeadend PVR add-on for viewing stuff like news?

That leads onto my next problem.

For some reason no artwork at all appears within the TVHeadend PVR add-on recorded tv folder of my kodi skin (embuary)

After contacting them it was suggested it is because i need to run TVH v4.3. Hwoever this update doesn't appear available under the kodi add-on update... So really just looking for a way to watch all content and be visually appealing for the file structure rather than blank looking folders etc.

Mark Fuller wrote:

So, 99% of my library appears perfectly and probably how a lot of others sort their library.

With only a handful of recordings, like my local news being without the series info, this is why I prefer to use the tvshow folder rather than a video folder. I guess it also saves me writing NFO files for the 99% of the other shows if I went down the path of using the video folder.

Another thing to consider. Add a recording profile for news that writes to a different Recording system path: set that path as a video folder in Kodi. That way to can still have the 99% in TVshows, but handle non-episodic stuff on its own.

I find it useful to have a separate News recording profile, as I age my news recording out after 5 days, whereas other stuff needs to be kept for longer.