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Features are being added to the xml but as of now there are a few. Within the XML `<time>` entry you are able to pass in various attributes to set certain values. As of now, aside from "title" and "type" which are mandatory, you can take advantage of "time-shift". This parameter accepts values in minutes and can be no lower than "1". If the attribute, "strict-time" is set to "false", then this `<time>` entry will be shifted to a new time based on the previous time with a smaller gap calculated according to the value in "time-shift". Basically, if you do not want any gaps in your daily generated schedule you would leave "strict-time" false and set "time-shift" to "1" for all `<time>` entries. However, this will create a schedule with weird start times like, "1:57 PM". Taking advantage of the "time-shift" perameter will correct this. If you set it to a value of "5", all media is shifted and hooked on to a "pretty" time that is a multiple of 5. So if used, rather then having a "Seinfeld" episode being set to "1:57 PM" it may be recalculated and scheduled for "2:00 PM". However, if you would like to make sure that "The Simpsons" will always start every weekday at "6:00 PM" then you can simply set that `<time>` entry to `srtict-time="true"`. This will ensure that despite other non-strict times shifting around, "The Simpsons" will air every weekday at the desired "6:00 PM" as scheduled (be sure that you haven't accidentally made two time entries "strict-time" for the same day/time - this sort of thing will cause weird scheduling errors). When using "strict-time" or having the "time-shift" value > than 1 (minute), this will result in empty gaps in the schedule. Currently I have a flag in the config for "commercial injection" to fill up the gaps as much as possible with commercials from commercials in your Plex server "Commercials" library. If you do not want to use this feature or if you don't have any commercials in your Plex server, just open up that `pseudo_config.py` file and set `useCommercialInjection` to `False`. Please check the `pseudo-channel.xml` for more information.
## Specifying Random Movies in Your Schedule:
You are able to specify random movies in your XML schedule by adding a `<time>` entry as follows:
```xml
<time title="random" type="movie" strict-time="false" time-shift="5" xtra='actor:mike myers genre:comedy contentRating:PG-13'>9:00 PM</time>
```
I have placed this time entry in the `<weekdays>` block of the XML. You can only specify `title="random"` for movie time blocks... however, you can further define parameters in the `xtra=` attribute. The `xtra` params are passed-in separated by a `:` as the delimiter as seen above. As I am using the Python Plex API to handle that logic, you can view their list of options: http://python-plexapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/library.html#plexapi.library.LibrarySection.search
## The Automatically Generated .HTML Daily Schedule / Server
To view the automatically generated "Daily Pseudo Schedule" index.html as seen in the image above, find it in the generated `./schedules/` directory within the project folder. The html file is generated both when the daily schedule is updated and whenever a media item from the schedule plays or ends (you can manually generate it with the `-m` flag).