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I'm using XMLTV GUI to download guide data from Schedules Direct and import into ArgusTV. I noticed that the only way I could get ArgusTV to record things is if I unchecked SKIP REPEATS. In looking at the XML, every show was marked as previously shown. I've never worked with the lua language before, but as I looked through the code for the Schedules Direct plugin, I found the issue. There is a point where previouslyshown is set to false if prog.new is true, but prog.new is never set anywhere. Once I fixed that, the XML file looked right and I can now skip repeats in ArgusTV.

Is there a way to submit patches for plugins? I'd be happy to submit the changes.

Unrelated, I also updated the plugin to put "no description" in the description field if there was no description in the Schedules Direct feed. That fixed a problem I was having with an outside post processor. I'd probably include that in the patch as well.

yes just post it here and I will update it. Sorry for the delay your message was stuck with about 1500 spam messages in the moderation queue

Sounds good. And no worries about the wait. That's given me plenty of time to make sure my updates didn't break anything else.

I'm attaching two files. One is the complete na_sd.lua file. The other is a patch file in case you want to see exactly what I changed. The update does two things:

1- Updates the logic so that the repeats flag is set and passed to the XML creation engine
2- inserts "no description" in the description field for any show that has no description.

I did #2 because I have an external processor that takes this XML file, adds some TVDB stuff to it, and then pushed it to ArgusTV. That external processor requires a description be present. Since that one was written in Java, it was easier for me to learn a little LUA and change na_sd than it was to learn Java.