Can you exclude certain seasons from being recorded?

[elsmandino]

Hello,

I have just set up a record for Red Dwarf (any time, any channel), with the intent of recording the new season (season 11).

As Dave randomly shows episodes from all previous seasons, it keeps picking up loads of other old episodes, which I have been manually cancelling. Is there any way to tell it to automatically ignore any season prior to season 11?

Thanks.

[ACTCMS]

Just change your recording to Red Dwarf XI (any time, any channel)?

Alex

[elsmandino]

Unfortunately, I am not sure that will work with my particular set up - I am using Schedules Direct, which lists the new season as "Red Dwarf".

I was previously using WebGrabPlus+ to take data from the Sky EPG and that did, as you state, call the new season "Red Dwarf XI".

[mvallevand]

Here in North America with SD we would tell NextPVR to only record new shows. Does your SD data properly include the new flag? One way to tell would be to turn on the new indicator in the EPG and only the new shows should have it.

Martin

[elsmandino]

That's fantastic - thank you.

It picked up only the new episode, which airs tonight.

Just a couple of further questions, if I may, to help me understand how best to set up my recordings:

1. I record Red Dwarf on a channel, called Dave. There is also a Dave+1. Is there anyway I can set it up so it will only record new episodes on any channel?

2. I also record a show called Wheeler Dealers, which appears on channels Quest and Quest+1 - I have seen up to Season 8 and they seem to show random shows from anything from season 1 to season 10. Is there any way to set up a recurring recording that records any episode of Wheeler Dealers, on any channel, other than seasons 1 to 8?

[mvallevand]

That's fantastic - thank you.

1. I record Red Dwarf on a channel, called Dave. There is also a Dave+1. Is there anyway I can set it up so it will only record new episodes on any channel?

Two rules, NextPVR should only record the first one found because of the SD unique id logic. You could write an Advanced Rule but probably not worth the effort. Sub might be able to add an All Channel + New request but scheduling-wise that probably will only help on lower priority with lots of airings.

2. I also record a show called Wheeler Dealers, which appears on channels Quest and Quest+1 - I have seen up to Season 8 and they seem to show random shows from anything from season 1 to season 10. Is there any way to set up a recurring recording that records any episode of Wheeler Dealers, on any channel, other than seasons 1 to 8?

Either create an advanced rule or take a lesson in time travel from Red Dwarf.

Martin

[elsmandino]

Thank you Martin - perfect explanation!

Advanced rule is exactly what I want for the second option, which led me to this:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...t=advanced

I am too much of a smeghead to work out how to code it, could you perhaps offer me hand please?

I am guessing it would be something like:

title like 'Wheeler Dealers' and not season==1 and not season==2 etc.

Would that work?

[elsmandino]

Actually, what I have put above does seem to work.

Is there any quicker way than entering not season== for every season number?

[mvallevand]

I checked the link and don't think sqlite needs the == condition I just use the single = For your example you could string it all out like that but this will make for easier typing

title like 'Wheeler Dealers' and season > 8

If you download a sqlite GUI utility you can test a rule before adding it. On the first line type

select * from epg_event where
rule you want to test

I wrote the trivial program attached for another purpose but it will probably work too if you install it to the NextPVR program directory.

Martin