Release Notes

Added

• Classic schedules: allow selecting multiple graphics elements on schedule items
• Block schedules: allow selecting multiple graphics elements on decos
• Add channel Playout Source setting
  • Generated: default/existing behavior where channel must have its own playout
  • Mirror: channel will play content from the specified Mirror Source Channel's playout
    • This allows the exact same content on different channels with different channel settings
    • Playout Offset can be used to offset the times of scheduled playout items from the mirror source channel
      • e.g. -2 hours will cause the mirror channel to play content 2 hours before the mirror source channel
• Add support for .aif, .aifc, .aiff song files
• Classic schedules: add playback order Marathon
  • This can be used with collections and smart collections
  • Items from the collection will be grouped by the Marathon Group By setting: Artist, Album, Season or Show
  • The order of groups can optionally be shuffled
  • The order of items in each group can optionally be shuffled (otherwise Season, Episode or Chronological as appropriate)
  • A batch size can be set to limit the number of items to schedule from each group at a time
    • Empty or zero batch size means play all items from each group before advancing
    • Any other value means play the specified number of items before advancing to the next group
• Log API requests when Request Logging Minimum Log Level is set to Debug
• Add Count setting to each playlist item
  • Previously, when Play All was unchecked, this was implicitly 1
  • Now, the playlist can play a specific number of items from the collection before moving to the next playlist item
• Classic schedules: add Shuffle Playlist Items setting to shuffle the order of playlist items
  • Shuffling happens initially (on playout reset), and after all items from the entire playlist have been played
• Add playout detail row coloring by @peterdey
  • Filler has unique row colors
  • Unscheduled gaps are now displayed and have a unique row color
• Process entire graphics element YAML files using scriban
  • This allows things like different images based on MediaItem_ContentRating (movie) or MediaItem_ShowContentRating (episode)
• Playlists: add playback order Shuffle In Order for collections and smart collections

Fixed

• Fix transcoding content with bt709/pc color metadata
• Fix scripted schedule validation (file exists) when creating or editing playout
• Fix adding single episode, movie, season, show to empty playlists
• Fix startup with MySql as non-superuser
  • local_infile=ON is required when using MySQL (for bulk inserts when building playouts)
  • ETV will set this automatically when it has permission
  • When ETV does not have permission, startup will fail with logged instructions on how to configure MySql
• Fix scaling anamorphic content in locales that don't use period as a decimal separator (e.g. ,)
• Block schedules: fix playout build crash when empty collection uses random playback order
• Fix watermarks and graphics elements on primary content split by mid-roll filler
• Fix watermarks and graphics elements when Scaling Behavior is Crop
• Fix hardware acceleration health check message on mobile
• Fix deco selection logic
• Fix inefficient database migration that would cause database initialization to get stuck
• Classic schedules: fix scheduling behavior when a flood item is before a flexible fixed start item
  • Sometimes the flood item wouldn't schedule anything
• Fix troubleshooting certain text graphics elements by generating fake EPG data

Changed

• BREAKING CHANGE: change how Scripted Schedule system works
  • No longer uses embedded python (IronPython); instead uses HTTP API
  • OpenAPI Description has been added at /openapi/scripted-schedule.json
    • This allows scripted scheduling from many languages
  • The scripted schedule file must now be directly executable (though a wrapper can be used to load a venv)
  • The scripted schedule file will be passed the following arguments (in order):
    • The API host (e.g. http://localhost:8409)
    • The build id (a UUID string that is required on all API calls)
    • The playout build mode (e.g. reset or continue, normally only used for specific logic when resetting a playout)
  • Custom arguments can be included in the Scripted Schedule field in the playout editor
    • Custom arguments will be passed after required arguments
    • For example, a Scripted Schedule of /home/jason/schedule.sh "party central" 23 will be executed like
      • /home/jason/schedule.sh http://localhost:8409 00000000-0000...0000 reset "party central" 23
    • This enables wrapper script re-use across multiple scripted schedules
  • API reference is available at /docs
  • Docker images contain pre-generated python api client and entrypoint script
    • Entrypoint is at /app/scripted-schedules/entrypoint.py
    • Scripts folder should be mounted to /app/scripted-schedules/scripts
    • Playouts should be created with scripted schedule /app/scripted-schedules/entrypoint.py script-name (no trailing .py)
• Automatically ignore Specials/Season 0 when using Season, Episode playback order