Hi guys,
I love the autotimer plugin. I use it to record all episodes of several series. It is configured to record only if the episode isn't already on the disk. The problem is: I'm running out of diskspace, because of the need to store old episodes.
But I cannot delete the episodes, because the autotimer should be activated all the time waiting for the next season to be aired.
So I created a very simple python script to "convert" episodes into dummy-files. The are shown in the filelist but cannot be viewed and have a size of 7KB. I tested it with Haven running at SyFy. All Files remaining have a size of less than 100MB.
Using this script will create dummy file for ALL episodes! Be sure you watched all before using.
Maybe there is a way to only delete episodes which are watched using the progress stored in one of the files?
Another shortcoming is the usability: I run it from my PC, the hdd of my xtrend is mounted via network-share. The series you want to convert to dummies must be identified via a variable.
For testing the last line could be removed, so nothing will be deleted.
import os
def main():
pass
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
pattern = ' - Syfy HD - Haven'
for filename in os.listdir("."):
if pattern in filename and filename.endswith('.ts'):
os.rename(filename, filename+'_tmp')
f = open(filename, 'w')
f.write('Dummy\n')
print (filename)
f.close()
os.remove(filename+'_tmp')
