How to start something at a certain time in a schedule?

ruthmenard

Hello, I am trying to create a channel that plays shows (all scheduled to play 3 at a time) all day, but at 8pm every day, it switches to a movie from a separate collection. I have a feeling it might be in the templates/blocks section but I am unable to understand exactly how to set that up. How can this be done?

Currently I have it set up like this:
Show (3)
Show (3)
Show (3)
Show (3)
[Long pause while Ersatz waits for 8pm]
Movie (8pm)
Show (3)
and so on...

jason

This is not currently possible (to flood with batches of items), but is a common request. Let me see what I can come up with.

ruthmenard

That'd be awesome, thanks! You're doing amazing work.

jason

This is now available on develop builds see https://ersatztv.org/docs/installation/#development-builds or https://ersatztv.org/docs/installation/docker#development-release

Also note the warning about downgrading here https://ersatztv.org/docs/installation/#downgrading

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

You can have two schedule items, one with dynamic start, marathon, group by show, marathon batch size 3 and the other a fixed start time for the movie at 8pm.

ruthmenard

Incredible work! Thank you so much!