ontv

Reimagining of my old Python-based CLI application for tracking show progress and what to watch next.

Still in the experimental stage. Users beware!

Features

A friendly dashboard of what's next	Schedule of upcoming shows
Detailed watch history	Git friendly storage

Running ontv in read-only mode

If you for some reason want to run ontv in read-only mode you can do that with the --test switch. I personally use this during development to make sure I don't accidentally save bad data to my local database.

$ RUST_LOG=ontv=debug ontv --test

Importing history from trakt.tv

You must run the application at least once, and go into Settings to configure your themoviedb.com API key. Unfortunately I cannot help you with this.

Next you'll need to export your existing history it using this very helpful service by Darek Kay.

After you've unpacked the file, import the history by starting ontv like this:

$ RUST_LOG=ontv=debug ontv --import-trakt-watched C:\Downloads\watched_shows.txt --import-missing

The process is incremental, so don't worry if you have to abort it. If any episode already has a watch history it will simply skip over that episode.

This will take a while, so go get a ☕.

Storing your database in git

Make sure that whatever repository you're using is private, since config.yaml will contain your API keys.

OnTV is designed to store its state in a human-readable, filesystem-friendly text format, and will probably continue to do so until it turns out to not be a great idea any longer.

If you want to store the configuration directory in git you'll have to find them first:

• Windows: %APPDATA%/setbac/ontv/config
• Linux: ~/.config/ontv (I think).

After this, you'll want to use a .gitignore file which excludes sync.yaml and queue.yaml, unless you want to be plagued by frequent changes:

/sync.yaml
/queue.yaml