mattprice / TVShows

I'm not sure, but the few times this has happened to me it seems to be after the getting show list fails

lost all of my subscriptions as well on new version install :(

Just released an update for TVShows 0.4.4 that fixed the issue of lost show subscriptions on upgrade. (If you already lost your subscriptions then you won't see it. This should stop new upgraders from losing theirs, though.)

Still no ideas on the random losses, except that the show list and subscriptions shouldn't be saved to the same file. Working on that for the next version.

Hi,

There's something still happening with the config file.

I updated to 0.4.4 after the update

Edit: An update was released for TVShows 0.4.4 that fixes the issue of losing subscriptions upon updating.

was made on the blog announcement and then I found no problem, and all shows downloaded fine. But I've opened the program today and all the subscriptions were gone.

Also, I remember changing the preferences when the mentioned update to the blog was published, and now that I've checked them again, they've also been reset.

And finally, you said on the blog announcement that Dr.Who 20x5 is now blocked, but when I've resubscribed I've seen it on the episode list. Not sure if this deserves it's own issue.

I'm on a PowerBook G4 with 10.4.11.

I updated to 0.4.4 after the update was made on the blog announcement and then I found no problem.

Unfortunately the edit on the blog refers to TVShows 0.4.4 (080) — 081 is the most recent build. As soon as I released 080 I realized that subscriptions were lost as soon as people upgraded from 0.4.3. The edit refers to 081 that was released a few hours later.

Also, I remember changing the preferences when the mentioned update to the blog was published, and now that I've checked them again, they've also been reset.

I still have no idea what to do about randomly losing subscriptions other than moving them into ~/Library/Preferences/ with all the other settings. It's a larger task than I realized before, but subscriptions should never have been saved in the same file as the show list for this very reason. Unfortunately I don't have an estimated release date but I hope to have it fixed by the major release (0.4.5 will probably just be bug fixes).

Dr.Who 20x5 is now blocked, but when I've resubscribed I've seen it on the episode list.

Sadly you're correct. The Dr. Who 20x5 I blocked was from December 25, 2007. I'll have to go back in and blocked the 20x5 episodes from November 15th, 2009 (The Waters Of Mars 2009 Special). =\

Updated to 0.4.6 (092) today and lost my subscriptions. Luckily, I had a PLIST backed up via TimeMachine, but otherwise it would have been a pain in the butt.

Are other shows working fine for you?

Some are, some aren't. Can't figure out any pattern to it. For example, Better Off Ted, Parks and Rec, and Community seem fine. 30 Rock, The Office, Daily Show and Colbert just hang trying to retrieve the episode list.

Happy to do anything I can to help troubleshoot.

Best,
GWG

Are there any errors showing in the Console from TVShows? You also might look in ~/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShows.log and post the contents here.

This is what I get from console.log:

===== Display starts at offset 1152178 within file of length 1283250. ====
===== Use File->Reload (Cmd-R) to display more. ====
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 1 more failure without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: exited with exit code: 255
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: too many failures in succession
2009-12-08 15:50:26.646 AppTrap[1262] I just trapped the application TVShows (058).app!
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: exited with exit code: 1
launchd[202]: net.sourceforge.tvshows: 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal

This is what I get from TVShows.log:

2009-12-03 21:10:15.829 open[10547] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c), port = 0x2303, name = 'Processes-0.87556097'
    See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-12-03 21:10:15.832 open[10547] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (Processes-0.87556097)
    CFMessagePortCreateLocal failed (name = Processes-0.87556097 error = 0)
2009-12-03 23:10:13.665 open[10633] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c), port = 0x2303, name = 'Processes-0.88211457'
    See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-12-03 23:10:13.666 open[10633] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (Processes-0.88211457)
    CFMessagePortCreateLocal failed (name = Processes-0.88211457 error = 0)
12/04/09 02:13:53   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 02:43:00   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 03:10:48   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Better+Off+Ted&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 03:11:18   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Community&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 03:11:48   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Parks+and+Recreation&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 03:43:00   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 04:13:53   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 04:43:04   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 05:13:53   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 05:43:00   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 06:13:58   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 06:39:40   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Better+Off+Ted&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 06:40:10   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Community&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 06:40:40   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Parks+and+Recreation&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 07:13:54   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
12/04/09 21:39:21   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Better+Off+Ted&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 21:39:22   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Community&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 21:39:22   TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/index.php?show_name=Parks+and+Recreation&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
12/04/09 23:33:53   TVShows Error: Can't reach ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?
/Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist.rb:17:in `require': No such file to load -- /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist/generator (LoadError)
    from /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist.rb:17
    from /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:39:in `require'
    from /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:39
    from /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:37:in `each'
    from /Users/admin/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:37
2009-12-08 22:49:13.049 open[1655] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c), port = 0x2303, name = 'Processes-0.115998721'
    See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-12-08 22:49:13.066 open[1655] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (Processes-0.115998721)
    CFMessagePortCreateLocal failed (name = Processes-0.115998721 error = 0)
2009-12-09 23:20:05.140 open[2534] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c), port = 0x2303, name = 'Processes-0.122421249'
    See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-12-09 23:20:05.155 open[2534] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (Processes-0.122421249)
    CFMessagePortCreateLocal failed (name = Processes-0.122421249 error = 0)
2009-12-10 21:32:18.216 open[2817] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c), port = 0x2303, name = 'Processes-0.124518401'
    See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-12-10 21:32:18.232 open[2817] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (Processes-0.124518401)
    CFMessagePortCreateLocal failed (name = Processes-0.124518401 error = 0)
2009-12-10 22:31:17.262 open[2856] CFLog (0): CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1100 (0x44c), port = 0x2303, name = 'Processes-0.125042689'
    See /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
2009-12-10 22:31:17.299 open[2856] CFLog (99): CFMessagePortCreateLocal(): failed to name Mach port (Processes-0.125042689)
    CFMessagePortCreateLocal failed (name = Processes-0.125042689 error = 0)

Hope that helps. Let me know if I can send anything else along, or give something new a try.

Best,
GWG

Are you using the latest version of TVShows (0.4.4 - 081)? Also, could you open up Terminal and tell me what it outputs when you enter ruby --version?

My default answer is usually to run the Uninstaller and see if that fixes it, but I'll warn you that you will lose your subscription list and any settings. Doing that is totally up to you, but I can't guarantee it'll help.

I am using the latest version (0.44-081), and my version of Ruby is "1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [powerpc-darwin8.0]"

I only have about three or four shows working right now, so I don't mind trying to uninstall and reinstall to see if that works. I'll do that now and drop another line to let you know what happens.

Cross your fingers,
GWG

Nope, uninstall and reinstall did not seem to help. I'll go through some of my usual shows and let you know which ones work and which ones do not:

Work:
. Community . Glee . Parks and Recreation . Better Off Ted

Not work (hangs at "Start Subscription with" screen):
. 30 Rock . Daily Show . The Office . Colbert Report

To define clearly what "Not working" means: When I click "subscribe" next to the show name, it brings up the window to show the episode list. Those that work give me an episode list fairly quickly (within 2-5 seconds). On the others, the window continues to show the spinning grey wheel and never show an episode list. It doesn't matter whether I wait 10, 30, 50 seconds or twenty minutes (tried that once). I have to hit cancel, and after that I can continue to use the program just fine, but I am not subscribed to that particular show.

Let me know if you want me to send/paste a new console.log and/or TVShows.log.

Thanks for all your help!
GWG

I seem to be having the same issue here :(
Especially with Colbert/Daily show.

One thing I notice that looks fishy is a constant error:

    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:184:in `local'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:184:in `make_time'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:243:in `parse'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:242:in `parseRSSFeed'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:221:in `each'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:221:in `parseRSSFeed'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:279:in `getNewEpisodesWithKey'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:168:in `getNewEpisodes'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:426:in `getNewEpisodes'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist/parser.rb:79:in `each_with_index'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:423:in `each'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:423:in `each_with_index'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:423:in `getNewEpisodes'
    /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:444

01/11/10 01:50:02 TVShows Error: #<ArgumentError: argument out of range>

Any ideas?

Could you open Terminal and tell me what it says when you enter ruby --version?

Glaschu:~ andy$ ruby --version
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [universal-darwin9.0]

I believe the error with for example the Daily show and the colbert report is because of a change in naming by ezrss:
http://ezrss.it/search/?mode=simple&show_name=daily+show
As of Dec 8 the 'show name' doesn't include the day and month anymore - just the year. The torrent link is still the same.
I was subscribe to the daily show, and it shows as last episode Dec 7th. I have the same errors in the logfile as above. This is on the new 0.45

Hope this helps, awesome job on tvshows

Ugh. Unfortunately it looks like tazzz is correct. I don't understand why they would have changed the name formatting. It's been the same since day one.

Looking into a fix. I think it should be easy, but every time I say that I turn out to be wrong.

Unfortunately this seems to be an issue of the torrent links returning a 404 error. I'll be adding an error check in the next version to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Thank you for reporting the issue, and especially for listing the shows. :)

Here is the log entry information:

10/07/09 02:12:04   TVShows Error: #<OpenURI::HTTPError: 404 Not Found>
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:277:in `open_http'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:616:in `buffer_open'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:518:in `open'
    /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:61:in `download'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:312:in `getNewEpisodesWithKey'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:302:in `each_pair'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:302:in `getNewEpisodesWithKey'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:165:in `getNewEpisodes'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:425:in `getNewEpisodes'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist/parser.rb:79:in `each_with_index'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:422:in `each'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:422:in `each_with_index'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:422:in `getNewEpisodes'
    /Users/mmm/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:443

Thank you the detailed report. :) I'll be sure and add a check to the torrent creation code so that it doesn't create torrents for 404/503 errors.

There may be some decisions to make here, especially if ezrss.it never fixes their link.

In that case, do you:
• Stop all future downloads until the bad link is fixed (which may be never)
• Skip the episode altogether - 1 try and it is done
• Keep trying to get the bad link episode while downloading newer episodes

And how will you alert the user since you run as a faceless background application.

Just some thoughts...

Agreed. There's a lot of thought that's going to have to go into this and I'm afraid I don't have an immediate answer to this problem.

Unfortunately it's not just a TVShows issue. No matter the program, most people are going to be using the ezRSS feeds to download shows. They're running into the same exact problems. Even worse, though, is that some of these 404 links are coming directly from EZTV. Viewing the NCIS: Los Angeles page on the EZTV site gives two different torrent links which both return error 404s.

Still (no offense to their hard work) the ezRSS site certainly does have a fair number of issues that seem to never get resolved. I'm trying to find the best way to go about scraping the EZTV website without causing a large bandwidth spike and I haven't found a good solution yet. I honestly think that it's the only way to be sure we're downloading new episodes of shows, at least until the ezRSS site gets its act together. For instance, see shows like The Big Bang theory where Ep3 still hasn't been posted on ezRSS but does happen to be on the EZTV website.

Perhaps it might be time to start looking into a way to use multiple source feeds (Mininova, Pirate Bay, etc) for the same show. Merge the feeds together somehow and remove duplicate episodes, with working ezRSS links having top priority.

If you add the web page scraping, it would be nice to allow that to be turned on/off via a program preference. Additionally, if it generates network spikes it might be nice to offer the ability to schedule it (like once a day at 3 am for example).

Multiple sites would help eliminates the issue of "what if ezRSS goes away". I think that type of issue came up with the original TVSHOWS. So that would be interesting. Again, a preference to allow the user to pick which sites might be in order for anyone loving Mininova but hating Pirate Bay (or whatever their personal preferences are).

Keep up the good work.

Whoops, it looks like the preference panel text is bugged. If the text at the bottom of the show list it says disabled then you're fine.

Didn't see that option before... that works!

Thanks!

Vote support for this issue. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 with Transmission 1.82 (10004) as well. I have also tried pairing TVShows with other bittorrent clients, namely uTorrent 0.92 and Limewire, with a similar result -- nothing downloads. I do notice that when new shows air, the "last aired episode" list does get updated, even though nothing downloads.

In the TVShows.log I see hundreds of entries that look like this:

01/25/10 01:19:52 TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/?show_name=V+2009&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss

or this:

01/24/10 00:05:49 TVShows Error: (SocketError, #<SocketError: getaddrinfo: nodename nor servname provided, or not known>) Unable to contact ezrss.it, are you connected to the internet?

or this

01/22/10 11:06:48 TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Operation timed out - connect(2)>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/?show_name=V+2009&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss

or this

01/21/10 12:23:48 TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/?show_name=The+Closer&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss

or this
01/21/10 02:10:26 TVShows Error: (Exception, #<Timeout::Error: execution expired>) Unable to parse RSS feed, skipping feed http://ezrss.it/search/?show_name=Dollhouse&show_name_exact=true&mode=rss
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:357:in initialize': undefined methodparse_xml' for Plist:Module (NoMethodError)

from /Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:451:in `new'
from /Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:451

or this

01/19/10 03:30:48 TVShows Error: #<OpenURI::HTTPError: 404 Not Found>

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:277:in `open_http'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:616:in `buffer_open'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:164:in `open_loop'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `catch'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:162:in `open_loop'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:132:in `open_uri'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:518:in `open'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:30:in `open'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:67:in `download'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:320:in `getNewEpisodesWithKey'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:310:in `each_pair'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:310:in `getNewEpisodesWithKey'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:173:in `getNewEpisodes'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:433:in `getNewEpisodes'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist/parser.rb:79:in `each_with_index'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:430:in `each'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:430:in `each_with_index'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:430:in `getNewEpisodes'
/Users/Schelry/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:451

I would guess that that last very long one starting with a 404 error would be the eztvrss nonavailability issue. but since eztv has come back, I still can't download anything as evidence by all the more recent errors I show above. There is one of each kind for each show I've subscribed.

Please help!

Are there any errors newer than Jan 25th? All of them seem to revolve around not being able to connect to ezRSS.

I just rebooted and when I logged back in, all of the shows started downloading. Kind of odd that a reboot was needed, but everything appears to be working now.

Jon

Huh... that is extremely odd. You didn't have TVShows still open before did you? It doesn't start downloading episodes until after you close it.

Yes, there are issues newer than Jan. 25th. I continue to get issues similar to those above. The vast quantity of issues keeps me from enterting them here in detail, however if you need a copy of my log you can provide me an email address and I will send it to you in its entirety. The wording of and dating of these issues lends me to believe that my issues are not related to the eztv outages.

I have been able to go to eztv.it and manually initiate downloads of specific episodes which are not downloading via the tvshows subscriptions, again verifying that eztv availability is not what's at issue here in my case.

That was my mistake. I did have TVShows still open.

Jon

TVShows should have skipped over those episodes that are missing, and I know that at least for me it did. It pretty much does a greater-than check: if the episode number is greater than the last episode you've watched then it gets downloaded, and the season is greater than or the same, then download this episode.

So... in theory it should have, and in practice it did here, so I'm not complete sure why it didn't work for you. :( If you happen to have the issue again let me know and I'll check over the code. Pretty sure it's all due a rewrite.

It would be neat if it was possible to add custom RSS feeds in addition to the eztv feed. This would open up for downloading files via private trackers.

The way I'm thinking it is that you inject additional feeds into the feed pool. These feeds would then be the primary source of torrents and will be checked first. If no new episodes are available on those feeds then TVShows should go on and check eztv.

If you do implement support for custom feeds then you will probably have to implement rename support as well (I can create a separate issue for this if you want). If the file doesn't end with ".torrent" then it should be renamed to <episode-name>.torrent, possibly after replacing spaces with a point or undersore.

I can provide you with a TVTorrents RSS output if you want.

I've been looking at showRSS lately which roughly mirrors the ezRSS site, only they seem to have a lot less problems. Sounds like the owner even has it coded to grab new episodes from the ezTV Twitter feed whenever the website is down, which I thought was pretty cool.

It's... in the works, as is everything else for that matter, but it's pretty much a guaranteed feature eventually. Once I get showRSS added then I'll start working on custom user inputted feeds, which will be a whole lot easier since all the code will have already been rewritten.

I could translate it into swedish =)

Quite possible, and it should be fairly easy for me too add. :)

But make it an option, please. I prefer to download my shows in an "Inbox" folder and only move them to their corresponding folder when I've seen them.

I planned to. Don't worry. :)

Any news regarding this?

Matt told me, via email, that he haven't had the time to implement this yet. Just in case anyone is wondering =)

to manually right-click on a subscription and hit something like "Select download path..." would probably be the easiest way to do this.

EDIT: The latest version of Transmission can order downloads into folders, which results in the same thing

Seconded. I came here specifically to request this too.
There are shows I really don't care if they are low quality, and others that I really do care to be as high res as possible. In fact some shows don't even have high quality versions available.
Also, thanks for taking up development of TV Shows!

+1

... but in the meantime there is a log file maintained in the ~/Library/Application Support/TVShows folder, called TVShows.log, which you can view.

I guess this should by rights be moved somewhere where console can be used to view it easily and also it could be monitored for size by the system scripts.

HTH

Craig

if you don't open the app, doesn't that mean you're happy with it?

There's code leftover from the original author that should open up TVShows if there's a new update. Of course I've never seen it in action, so I'll have to look into find a way to test whether it actually does work or not.

Looking into Growl notifications, which might certainly be a possibility with notifying users of app updates.

Thanks!

TVShows updated today (from 0.4.5 to 0.4.7), without any interaction from me!

Thus: it "SELF-UPDATED". This must have been triggered by an availability for download of new episodes for which I had subscribed. It never did that before...

I find this a nice, elegant solution.

Great work, Matt. Thanks

(I guess that this thread can be closed)

Oddly enough, I didn't change anything that would cause it to do that. If it truly did self update then it should have been doing it all along.

(Remember, I picked this show up from the old developer and I'm trying to make it a lot more stable and add some new features in the process)

Ah, confusing. Sorry...

I can't think of another reason that TVShows started, apart from it being kicked into action by the availability a new episode (Vuze opened right after). So it may be more likely that something (other) went wrong in the update-past (of TVShows on my computer).

I'll be looking forward to a new release to test it! :)

I would like to second this, however, it really isn't a big deal as of now. It is a small application with a very small footprint. In terms of work load, the advantages of making it 64 bit ready are minimal, however, it seems like a natural step forward, especially as the application grows.

I had the same issue. My problem was that the download directory (network share) wasn't mounted. Check ~/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShows.log to see if it contains more clues.

Thank you. :) Yes, please post anything in ~/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShows.log so that I can help you a little better.

This is the last entry on the log file.

01/24/10 06:42:39 TVShows Error: TVShows is disabled.

It's been repeating that since Jan 17th.

I also have this when I launch TVShows

1/24/10 10:02:31 AM [0x0-0xa39a39].net.sourceforge.tvshows[58589] launchctl: Error unloading: net.sourceforge.tvshows

I only wanted the TVShows launchd job to run between the hours that I am home, not at work. (torrents are not kosher at work) I have another launch job that will run every 10 minutes. It checks the time, and will load or unload the net.sourceforge.tvshows job depending on the time of day.

So, I'm not sure what happened between on the 17th. But here was the last entry that wasn't like above.

01/17/10 22:02:50 TVShows Error: #<ArgumentError: argument out of range>

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:184:in `local'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:184:in `make_time'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/time.rb:243:in `parse'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:249:in `parseRSSFeed'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:228:in `each'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:228:in `parseRSSFeed'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:286:in `getNewEpisodesWithKey'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:175:in `getNewEpisodes'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:433:in `getNewEpisodes'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/lib/plist/parser.rb:79:in `each_with_index'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:430:in `each'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:430:in `each_with_index'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:430:in `getNewEpisodes'
/Users/mfried/Library/Application Support/TVShows/TVShowsScript/TVShows.rb:451

I hope this helps.

We use launchd so you won't actually see a process running in the background all the time, only whenever it needs to be. Unfortunately ezTV has had hardware issues the past few weeks so that could be the reason why you haven't had any torrents downloaded.