Using the The Movie DB TV meta data with TV shows on Kodi 17. I’ve got a number of TV shows but noticed one of the them wasn’t showing up in Kodi. I’ve learnt previously that if it’s not in the TMDB, Kodi won’t add it to the library. However in this particular instance it is in TMDB.
Searched for ‘FYI Daily’ returned https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/43914-fyi-daily
Using debug logs in Kodi returns
19:23:29.990 T:1279259632 DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'FYI Daily' using The Movie Database scraper (path: '/home/osmc/.kodi/addons/metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.3.1')
19:23:29.998 T:1279259632 DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f7f51775877e0bb6703520952b3c7840&query=FYI%20Daily&language=en&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=en,en,null</url>
19:23:29.999 T:1279259632 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x5038c020) http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f7f51775877e0bb6703520952b3c7840&query=FYI%20Daily&language=en&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=en,en,null
19:23:30.192 T:1279259632 DEBUG: Get: Using "UTF-8" charset for "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f7f51775877e0bb6703520952b3c7840&query=FYI%20Daily&language=en&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=en,en,null"
19:23:30.194 T:1279259632 DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'FYI Daily' using The Movie Database scraper (path: '/home/osmc/.kodi/addons/metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org', content: 'tvshows', version: '1.3.1')
19:23:30.194 T:1279259632 DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f7f51775877e0bb6703520952b3c7840&query=FYI%20Daily&language=en&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=en,en,null</url>
19:23:30.195 T:1279259632 DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x5038c020) http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f7f51775877e0bb6703520952b3c7840&query=FYI%20Daily&language=en&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=en,en,null
19:23:30.293 T:1279259632 DEBUG: Get: Using "UTF-8" charset for "http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f7f51775877e0bb6703520952b3c7840&query=FYI%20Daily&language=en&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=en,en,null"
19:23:30.295 T:1279259632 WARNING: No information found for item 'http://192.168.1.8:80/kodi_test_files/TV/FYI%20Daily/', it won't be added to the library.
Trying the API url directly http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?ap…en,en,null returns a result
However on comparing with another TV show that does work – Big Bang Theory http://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?ap…en,en,null I note this has a lot more attributes/fields.
Does Kodi expect a minimum amount of information from meta data before it will add to library? If so, what are the mandatory attributes/fields?
Thanks