Home Theater 2.0 - Tips/Questions/Tricks

same like my friend`s problem
he has several videos music from abc kids tv
but its not on the TMDB/IMDB database
at least zidoo can make it possible to take the image file from the same folder to be the movie poster when they scanned it

 

Hi, I'm new to Zidoo X10 and I have a question, how can I dissolve all the collections?, without going one by one? or that HT does not make Collections? THX

 

mine is too aggresive, almost every movies i have get stack in collection
so i have to manually remote it from collection

 

Hello everyone, I did not find the answer to my problem on the forum (or maybe it escaped me). I'm using the latest version of Home Theater 2.0 (v1.5.8) on an X9S (fw 2.0.34). I have séveral sources with vidéo files and when I add files inside one of the sources the scan is not done, worse the files do not appear! The update seems impossible. If any of you have solved this problem I accept his help gladly. Thanks in advance
(I am french, thank you google trad)

 

I have multiple sources, some of them are not even on all the time and it works for me with a bit of help.

With latest firmware you should be able to select sources within HT. Looking at the list you may have some showing "Scanned" but you know that you just added files to the source. You can click on it and select "Update".

Second issue is when some of the sources are showing as "Disconnected". The easiest way to deal with it is to get out of HT into the Zidoo home page. Select running apps from remote control (button above Play/Pause) and swipe out the HT window. Exit and select HT again. You will have all sources active and refreshed again.

Another separate case is when nothing helps and you can't see the movie in HT but it is in Media Center and it may have poster assigned to a file. Always check if this went into "Unmatched" folder or some other unrelated collection.
If nothing helps - reboot Zidoo.

Good luck

 

Hello 3DBuff, thank you for your interest. Unfortunately for me none of the methods works. I deleted one of the sources and then add it with 50 files, only 30 are recognized. I ask myself many questions ?

 

This is a bit different from what you said in your previous post: "when I add files inside one of the sources the scan is not done, worse the files do not appear!"

Now your question is when you add 50 files and only 30 are recognized. There was a lot of talk in this forum about not recognized fils specially TV series. Try to do manual search, long push on files in Unrecognized folder. Another option is to find movie ID in IMDB.COM using computer and browser. Copy movie ID number from the address line and search for it in the HT.

 

I'll try that, thx ...

 

From my experience, scanning 3-4 times the same source matched more files each time, then the others with no match I had to do manually match

 

Any way to change the sorting to ignore "the"?

 

HT 2.0 Will not match this move. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/500919-211?language=en-US
211 (2018)

 

just put imdb id in search bar
tt4976192

 

Why to manually search with imdb it, HT 2.0 have to read from nfo file if exist, imdb id is already there.

 

I posted this in the X20 thread but thought i would post it here as well hoping that someone can help me. I have an X20 and having some issues updating sources when i have added new content to it. Today i added a new movie to one of my internal harddrives and went into the HP app and updated source. But after updating, i can`t see the newly added movie in the poster wall. I tried updating 3 or 4 times and also removed the source completely and then re-added it but still not there..

Strangely, if i go into file manager and check the content of the disk, i can see the movie file there.

Anyone else with this problem?

 

Sometimes it goes into wrong collection set.
I listed few options in post #452 on previous page

 

Thanks for the suggestions but unfortunately none of those worked for me. This is really strange because i can clearly see and play the moviefile from file manager but for some odd reason, the HP app can`t recognize it.
If this was a widespread bug affecting everyone, there would be a lot more comments but it seems that me and only a few others are affected.

Will send an email to Zidoo support for further help.

 

Quick update to my above problem. I did some tests and noticed that when i tried renaming the file on the harddrive, the HP app suddenly recognized it and updated the poster art work automatically. So not sure why it didn`t recognized it after scanning. Will do some more testing and see if i can find the reason.

 

Help. I am using the new beta firmware. The scraper will not recognize Solo a Star Wars Story or Sicardio Day of the Soldier.
I tried using the names and the imdb id number to no avil. It says it does not recognize it.

I also tried scrapping for Skyscraper and I did not find a poster match.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Try renaming Sicario Day of the Soldado to Sicario 2 instead. This is the movie i was having difficulties adding too in my posts above. But when i renamed it to Sicario 2, the HP app recognized it and downloaded the poster art.

 

Thanks I’ll give that a try. Any ideas on Solo.