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Unwanted TMDb catalog search

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Post by JCGSS » Thu May 26, 2022 2:40 am

Hi Gary,

Thanks for this tool! It works great, but when I look in the log file, I see dozens of messages about movies that I'm not interested in. The messages all appear to be in the same format.

Example: [5/25/2022 12:10:25 AM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "Psycho Stripper" from 2019 found 1 results.

My wife would not be amused with that one!

This does NOT seem to affect how EPG123 works, but maybe causes a performance lag? Or is there a setting somewhere to disable them?

Here's the beginning of today's log:
[5/25/2022 12:10:01 AM] [ INFO] Beginning EPG123 update execution. 2022-05-25 07:10:01Z
[5/25/2022 12:10:01 AM] [ INFO] DaysToDownload: 14 , TheTVDBNumbers : True , PrefixEpisodeTitle: True , PrefixEpisodeDescription : True , AppendEpisodeDesc: True , OADOverride : True , SeasonEventImages : True , TMDbCoverArt: True , IncludeSDLogos : True , AutoAddNew: True , CreateXmltv: True , ModernMediaUiPlusSupport: False
[5/25/2022 12:10:02 AM] [ INFO] Token request successful. serverID: 20141201.web , datetime: 2022-05-25T07:10:01Z
[5/25/2022 12:10:02 AM] [ INFO] Status request successful. account expires: 2022-12-21T17:39:27Z , lineups: 4/4 , lastDataUpdate: 2022-05-25T00:44:48Z
[5/25/2022 12:10:02 AM] [ INFO] system status: Online , message: No known issues.
[5/25/2022 12:10:04 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved TMDb configurations.
[5/25/2022 12:10:04 AM] [ INFO] Successfully requested listing of subscribed lineups from Schedules Direct.
[5/25/2022 12:10:04 AM] Entering BuildLineupServices() for 4 lineups.
[5/25/2022 12:10:05 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup CAN-0009999-X.
[5/25/2022 12:10:05 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup GBR-1000015-DEFAULT.
[5/25/2022 12:10:06 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-CA66343-X.
[5/25/2022 12:10:06 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved the station mapping for lineup USA-DISH828-DEFAULT.
[5/25/2022 12:10:06 AM] Exiting BuildLineupServices(). SUCCESS.
[5/25/2022 12:10:06 AM] Entering GetAllScheduleEntryMd5s() for 14 days on 158 stations.
[5/25/2022 12:10:09 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved Md5s for 158 station's daily schedules. (0:00:00:02.2184885 / 235.546 KB)
[5/25/2022 12:10:12 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 158 station's daily schedules. (0:00:00:02.9688079 / 2.681 MB)
[5/25/2022 12:10:13 AM] [ INFO] Found 1556 cached daily schedules.
[5/25/2022 12:10:13 AM] [ INFO] Downloaded 656 daily schedules.
[5/25/2022 12:10:14 AM] [ INFO] Processed 2212 daily schedules for 158 stations.
[5/25/2022 12:10:14 AM] Exiting GetAllScheduleEntryMd5s(). SUCCESS.
[5/25/2022 12:10:14 AM] Entering BuildAllProgramEntries() for 19588 programs.
[5/25/2022 12:10:17 AM] [ INFO] Found 17987 cached program descriptions.
[5/25/2022 12:10:22 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 1601 program descriptions. (0:00:00:04.7357596 / 3.754 MB)
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] [ INFO] Processed 19588 program descriptions.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] Exiting BuildAllProgramEntries(). SUCCESS.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] Entering BuildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions() for 2837 series.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] [ INFO] Found 2811 cached/unavailable series descriptions.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved 26 generic program descriptions. (0:00:00:00.2966645 / 8.597 KB)
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] [ INFO] Processed 2837 series descriptions.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] Exiting BuildAllGenericSeriesInfoDescriptions(). SUCCESS.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] Entering GetAllMoviePosters() for 3441 movies.
[5/25/2022 12:10:23 AM] [ INFO] Found 3234 cached/unavailable movie poster links.
[5/25/2022 12:10:24 AM] [ INFO] Successfully retrieved artwork info for 207 programs. (0:00:00:00.9063524 / 1.640 MB)
[5/25/2022 12:10:24 AM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "Birthmother's Betrayal" from 2020 found 1

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Post by Space » Thu May 26, 2022 5:44 am

JCGSS wrote: Thu May 26, 2022 2:40 am Example: [5/25/2022 12:10:25 AM] [ INFO] TMDb catalog search for "Psycho Stripper" from 2019 found 1 results.
That movie is actually about a mindful furniture re-finisher :lol:

Seriously, those entries are movies that are in the Schedules Direct (SD) listings but don't have poster art in SD. So in order to try to find poster art, EPG123 goes the extra step to find poster art on a third party site (www.themoviedb.org). If it is able to find some poster art for the movie (based on the name of the movie and the year of release), it logs it, if not, it does not log it (it used to log both, but that was removed at some point).

Anyway, if you want to disable this functionality, there is an option in the EPG123 server GUI to do so ("Use themoviedb.org for missing movie cover art"). The movies that are missing poster art in SD are usually more obscure movies, often made for TV movies on Lifetime or Hallmark channel, but there can also be more popular movies missing art due to a slight naming difference (for instance I see one now in my log for "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" which is obviously not an obscure movie, but is probably missing poster art in SD due to it's poster art source using a slightly different name (such as "Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker")).

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Post by JCGSS » Thu May 26, 2022 4:50 pm

Thanks for the quick reply and explanation!

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Post by garyan2 » Thu May 26, 2022 5:29 pm

Just for info: epg123 only checks tmdb if SD does not have movie coverart, and epg123 does not search for any Adult Only coverart from tmdb. I keep it as family friendly as I can.

Performance wise, there is a pretty big hit for large lineups on initial updates, but after that it is negligible. Epg123 is only getting links to images and not the images themselves.

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Keeping WMC alive beyond January 2020. https://garyan2.github.io

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