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Odzyskiwanie danych · 8 months ago

You're on the right track but you should take a look at http://tvcountdown.com/ Try implementic similarly simple design and a possibility of choosing only tvshows you like and bookmarking it this way - I should be able to go to only one site and see all of the interesting me info without any useless stuff.

Owen · 9 months ago

Nice! Do you have any plans to implement an API where one could query for the shows by means other than visiting the website? Perhaps returning the data in JSON or XML. The RSS feed for "your shows" is a nice touch. Although I wont use this service right now as my DVR records all the new episodes and ones I haven't watched but should I decide I don't want my DVR any more, I might have to subscribe to it. Who's going to write the mash-up that puts the shows into Google calendar?

T.J. Mininday · 9 months ago

This is your website Jorge? This is awesome. If you could get an iPhone app developed, I'm sure it would be a big hit as well.

GeekLad · 9 months ago

Yep, it sure is! Yeah, one of these days I'll have to get the iPhone SDK and fool around with it.

Will · 8 months ago

I love rerun check, but I keep seeing the incorrect time for scrubs, which threw me off. tvrage had it right when I checked schedule and specifically scrubs, so I don't know if it's on your end or theirs.

GeekLad · 8 months ago

I'll look into it Will, thanks for bringing it to my attention. You're right, the timeslot is off.

Niko · 7 months ago

I finally created an account today in the hopes there was a preference setting for my time zone. A couple times I've looked at the time for a show I wanted to watch and forgotten to subtract an hour for Central Time. I think it would be a great addition to save our time zone in the options and display the correct local time a show will air.

Great job on the site!

GeekLad · 7 months ago

Yeah, unfortunately TVRage doesn't provide timezone info in their feeds. Hopefully the do soon.

Kane · 2 months ago

I've noticed that a few shows (specifically Eastwick and Flash Forward) are showing up as reruns when they are not. Is that just because they are new shows? Will they show the correct rerun status soon?

GeekLad · 2 months ago

You're right. There must be a problem with the nightly updates. I'll
investigate. Thanks very much for informing me and citing specific shows.
That will definitely help me to debug this.

GeekLad · 2 months ago

I found the bug and have fixed it. Here's an interesting tidbit. The problem with Eastwick was an actual bug in my updating code. However, the problem with Flash Forward was actually an issue with my database records.

There used to be a show on the Disney Channel also called Flash Forward that was in my database, vs. the new Fast Forward on ABC. I removed the Disney show from the database and voila! New episode!

Thanks once again for letting me know about the problem with these shows!

Nick · 2 months ago

I've also noticed that some times are wrong. Specifically noticed that Heroes has been wrong recently. I missed an episode because I thought it would be on at 8c, but it's really on at 7c. RerunCheck lists it as 9pm Eastern but it's 8pm. I remember this happening with Medium once too (but it might have been because it was a two hour special episode).

Also, I know you said there is no time-zone setting, but you get the times from TVRage which are in Eastern (in my email at least). Wouldn't it be easy enough to add or subtract for our time-zone?

GeekLad · 2 months ago

Unfortunately it's not quite as easy as just subtracting the time. It would work for central, but the Pacific and Mountain times differ. I'm not sure how standard their air-times are with ours (i.e. if it is always the case where a 9pm Eastern show will be 9pm Mountain). You wouldn't happen to know if this is the case, would you?

I do need to get around to writing some code to update the air times. I think the current air times are simply what they were when I first created RerunCheck. I have seen two-hour specials throw things a bit off, but you're right, I do need to update the air times.