pyTivo Discussion Forum

[choekstr]

Any chance this could make it into the recent builds? I have reached the point where I have grown tired of helping people merge this in to the builds and found myself saying more than once "It will be in soon so we don't have to modify this each and every time".

Thanks in advance,
Chris

[MasterCephus]

I have to ask because of my lack of knowledge (pretty sure I know the answer already), but is the sorting an overall feature, or can you chose per folder?

For instance, if I want my TV shows by date and I want movies by alphabet, is that possible? I don't think it is, but wouldn't hurt to ask.

[choekstr]

From what I noticed it is global and not a per folder setting. Easy to switch with hitting the "1" though.

[danimal4326]

I tried the patch and it works nicely..
Now when i get a new movie its easy to find instead of paging down a bunch of times.


-D

[choekstr]

And that my friend is what it is all about.

[wmcbrine]

[wmcbrine]

Hmm, here's a problem: It only works on the top level of a share. After the patch, subfolders are always date-sorted (because that's how the TiVo requests them), and don't respond to the "1" key (the option doesn't even appear on the screen).

[choekstr]

oh that sucks! What are they thinking? At least it works in the root folder which is primarily where I care but it would be nice if they added this feature for subdirs.

Awesome addition, thanks a ton for this!

BTW, the next logical step is to have date sorting on music even though they support by name and by type (hotkey "2"). IMO I don't ever care to sort by type since all my music is .mp3 only. However, having the most recently added new songs at the top, for the same reasons we like it for movies, would be another nice tweak.

I will have to dig in and try to find where the music section is and see if I can muster up enough python to do some testing unless someone else more versed wants to take a crack at it.

Thanks again and great work on all the new tweaks and additions going into the git versions.

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Chris

[wmcbrine]

[ebf]

I see this has made it into the recent forks. I prefer the original method of sorting Shares alphabetically. Would you all consider adding a flag in the plugin.py to allow us to choose between the two methods? Just a little user set config like:

[choekstr]

I don't understand your question? The addition allows for either date or alpha sorting by choosing the sorting method on the Tivo. The "Enter" menu allows this change or the hotkey "1".

The beauty of this solution is that there IS support for both and it is built into the Tivo interface and doesn't have to be chosen in the config file.

[ebf]

[wmcbrine]

It annoys you to press one key?

[ebf]

[wgw]

I find it annoying too. But more importantly, when I go to a subfolder, it does not retain my sort by name setting. The sort is all out of wack in the subfolders. Seems to be totally random.