Mailing List Archive: Inconsistent star ratings

Inconsistent star ratings

Jan 23, 2017, 7:30 AM

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Hi,

I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the UI
inconsistencies regarding star ratings.

My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly by
XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored as a
float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent which
makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The different
ratings I get are:
- Recording list: 1-10
- Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
- mythweb: 1-5

Jan.

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Re: Inconsistent star ratings [ In reply to ]

jan at horde

Jan 23, 2017, 8:01 AM

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Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the
> UI inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>
> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly by
> XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored as a
> float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent which
> makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The different
> ratings I get are:
> - Recording list: 1-10
> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
> - mythweb: 1-5
>
> Jan.

Oh, and btw. is there some reason that this is a FLOAT, and not a
DECIMAL field? This makes comparisons more complicated than necessary.

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Re: Inconsistent star ratings [ In reply to ]

joe at thefrys

Jan 23, 2017, 8:04 AM

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:31 AM Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the UI
> inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>
> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly by
> XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored as a
> float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent which
> makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The different
> ratings I get are:
> - Recording list: 1-10
> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
> - mythweb: 1-5
>
> Jan.
>

Jan,

You might check to see if thats an issue with the theme rather than
something underlying in the MythTV logic. I suspect its up to the theme
designer to choose how to represent the ratings (stars, colors, numbers,
etc.)

Re: Inconsistent star ratings [ In reply to ]

mtdean at thirdcontact

Jan 23, 2017, 8:42 AM

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On 01/23/2017 11:01 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>
> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the UI
>> inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>>
>> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly by
>> XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored as a
>> float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent which
>> makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The different
>> ratings I get are:
>> - Recording list: 1-10
>> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
>> - mythweb: 1-5
>>
>> Jan.
>
> Oh, and btw. is there some reason that this is a FLOAT, and not a
> DECIMAL field? This makes comparisons more complicated than necessary.

Some background. I think the idea was to use a value that could then be
applied to whatever base we chose:

https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7810#comment:1

and the rest of the thread.

Mike
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Re: Inconsistent star ratings [ In reply to ]

jan at horde

Jan 23, 2017, 8:54 AM

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Zitat von Michael T. Dean <mtdean@thirdcontact.com>:

> On 01/23/2017 11:01 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for the
>>> UI inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>>>
>>> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly
>>> by XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored
>>> as a float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent
>>> which makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The
>>> different ratings I get are:
>>> - Recording list: 1-10
>>> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
>>> - mythweb: 1-5
>>>
>>> Jan.
>>
>> Oh, and btw. is there some reason that this is a FLOAT, and not a
>> DECIMAL field? This makes comparisons more complicated than
>> necessary.
>
> Some background. I think the idea was to use a value that could then
> be applied to whatever base we chose:
>
> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7810#comment:1
>
> and the rest of the thread.

So this sounds like 1-10 is what should be used, and 1-5 is probably
mythweb's fault, while 1-4 might be the theme's (or themes' - I've
seen this in at least two themes) fault.

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Re: Inconsistent star ratings [ In reply to ]

jan at horde

Jan 23, 2017, 9:09 AM

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Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael T. Dean <mtdean@thirdcontact.com>:
>
>> On 01/23/2017 11:01 AM, Jan Schneider wrote:
>>>
>>> Zitat von Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm wondering if there is some (technical or other) reason for
>>>> the UI inconsistencies regarding star ratings.
>>>>
>>>> My EPG grabber supports 4 stars only which is returned correctly
>>>> by XMLTV and used and calculated correctly in MythTV, and stored
>>>> as a float between 0 and 1. BUT the presentation is inconsistent
>>>> which makes this feature very unrelying for non-tech users. The
>>>> different ratings I get are:
>>>> - Recording list: 1-10
>>>> - Recoding or EPG details: 1-4
>>>> - mythweb: 1-5
>>>>
>>>> Jan.
>>>
>>> Oh, and btw. is there some reason that this is a FLOAT, and not a
>>> DECIMAL field? This makes comparisons more complicated than
>>> necessary.
>>
>> Some background. I think the idea was to use a value that could
>> then be applied to whatever base we chose:
>>
>> https://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/7810#comment:1
>>
>> and the rest of the thread.
>
> So this sounds like 1-10 is what should be used, and 1-5 is probably
> mythweb's fault, while 1-4 might be the theme's (or themes' - I've
> seen this in at least two themes) fault.

I stand corrected, this is not the themes' fault, they use YEARSTARS
which is propagated at ProgramInfo::ToMap(). So there IS some
inconsistency inside core Myth.

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Jan Schneider
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