Can Scanners have settings?

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As per the title, I would like my custom scanner to have a user definable bunch of settings. Alternatively, I would like my agent (which goes hand-in-hand with the custom scanner) to be able to mark files found by the scanner as ‘hidden’.

Backstory: I am trying to create a scanner/agent for MythTV. The scanner identifies all files that are MythTV recordings (i.e named as per the MythTV filename scheme) but I need to use the MythTV services API to determine if a file is deleted (and shouldn’t be included in the library). To use the API, the scanner needs to be configured with the backend IP/Port. Alternatively, the scanner should find all files (even deleted one) and the Agent (which can be configured for the IP/Port) should be able to determine if the file is deleted and therefore shouldn’t be included in the library.

Cheers,
Whytey

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http://hackersome.com/p/pekkanikander/Plex-EyeTV-Tools
The Scanner and Agent Bundle work in tandem, and have joint preferences. (At this writing, scanners cannot have their own preferences.)

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Thanks for the comment.

So, scanners can’t have preferences!

If a media file is correctly found by the scanner, is it possible for the agent to then determine that the media object should not be visible in Plex?

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They can’t normally but the scanner could use the agent’s one… You could use files to trigger settings, of force ids.
Please click on both links in my signature the answer is in the top of each readme