Conditional Sequences Problem

[lmatanic 1]

I'm trying out the new release 1.0.14a7 and I have Krypton 17.4.  I already had several different sequences that I'd created previously and I went in activated and added conditions to a few of them (including adding the 2D condition to the default sequence). Out of the five sequences (other than the default) that I added conditions to, only 1 is actually being triggered when I play a movie with the appropriate tag.  Two of the sequences should be triggered by a genre and three are supposed to be triggered by a tag.  I've rechecked the sequences and even tried deactivating one and creating a new sequence to be triggered by that tag.  I've also checked to make sure that the movies I'm playing actually have the appropriate tag or genre.  Any ideas?

[OTA 78]

I've created three conditional sequences.  One for IMAX, one for Atmos and one for DTS:X.  All three use tags as conditions and I've verified that they are all working.  I also have a default with no conditions set that works when none of the other 3 conditions are met.  I can't speak to using genre as a condition, but are you using just one condition per sequence or are you using multiple?  The reason I ask is that you set your default to have a condition of 2D rather than no conditions like I did.  If so, are the movies meeting all the conditions of the sequence or is it missing one keeping the sequence from running where you're expecting it to?

[lmatanic 1]

Each of my sequences has only one condition so there shouldn't be any issue there. While typing this I tried removing the 2D condition from the default. That does make the sequences with tags as a condition work, but the genre ones still don't. I put the 2D condition in the default sequence because that's what Ragnarok said to do either in a post here or on the kodi forum when someone couldn't figure out how to set a default sequence. So if that causes an issue it should probably be reported as a bug. 

I'm glad to have the tag sequences working so thank you for that. Does anyone have it working for genres?

[Ragnarok 198]

10 hours ago, lmatanic said:

Each of my sequences has only one condition so there shouldn't be any issue there. While typing this I tried removing the 2D condition from the default. That does make the sequences with tags as a condition work, but the genre ones still don't. I put the 2D condition in the default sequence because that's what Ragnarok said to do either in a post here or on the kodi forum when someone couldn't figure out how to set a default sequence. So if that causes an issue it should probably be reported as a bug. 

I'm glad to have the tag sequences working so thank you for that. Does anyone have it working for genres?

It's working for genres as far as I'm aware, though we're currently working on improving that logic. Right now it does a "best match" for genres, which can get dicey when you're trying to trigger a SciFi Sequence but you also have one for Action, for example. Our idea is to allow users to set the priority of things like genre tags. What you're describing seems to go deeper than that, so if you would, post up a debug log for us to review. You may have found a bug.

 

[lmatanic 1]

Okay I created the debug log and uploaded it to pastebin. It clearly shows that there is a sequence called Halloween with the condition of the genre being Horror and that the movie I chose had Horror as a genre. It also had a couple of other genres too (none that had a sequence though) so I tried it with a movie with only Horror as the genre with the same result.  I didn't do another debug log because it said the exact same thing just different movie info.

https://pastebin.com/GriaB62P

 

What about the fact that most of the tag condition sequences weren't working either until I removed 2D as a condition for the default sequence? That seems like a bug to me as well, especially for people who have 2D and 3D movies and want a different default for each.

Edited October 1, 2017 by lmatanic

[OTA 78]

13 hours ago, lmatanic said:

...especially for people who have 2D and 3D movies and want a different default for each.

As far as I know of, there's only one default.  I think it's odd that both 2D and 3D are options for a condition.  If the movie isn't 3D, then it's obviously 2D which I would think should be the default.  That's why I didn't bother specifying 2D in my conditional sequences.

[Ragnarok 198]

A fix for this bug should be in the latest development release. Would you mind testing it for me and let me know what you see?

 

[lmatanic 1]

On 10/10/2017 at 11:23 PM, Ragnarok said:

A fix for this bug should be in the latest development release. Would you mind testing it for me and let me know what you see?

 

Okay, I finally got around to testing this and yes it does seem to work for genres now. I haven't tested anything but genres and tags, but it definitely seems to be working for both.  I am curious about one thing though. I typically use CinemaVision for movie marathons, how does it deal with different movies meeting different conditions? Does it just go back to default or does it go by the first movie or what? So far I've only been testing things and haven't actually USED CinemaVision since the update.

[Ragnarok 198]

30 minutes ago, lmatanic said:

Okay, I finally got around to testing this and yes it does seem to work for genres now. I haven't tested anything but genres and tags, but it definitely seems to be working for both.  I am curious about one thing though. I typically use CinemaVision for movie marathons, how does it deal with different movies meeting different conditions? Does it just go back to default or does it go by the first movie or what? So far I've only been testing things and haven't actually USED CinemaVision since the update.

Right now, it will play the Sequence for your first feature presentation. That's a good idea for a setting, though, for those who want different Sequences for each movie in their queue.

[lmatanic 1]

A setting would be nice, but I was actually hoping that it matched with the first movie, so the default actually works for me.