"Speculative recording" - record a title that is not currently in listings

[martinu]

One nice feature that Windows Media Centre had was to be able to schedule a "speculative recording" from a wish list - to be able to say "record any programme with a title that matches X even though nothing like this is in the EPG at present".

Sometimes trailers for a new programme may be shown on TV even though it is too far ahead for the EPG, and it's nice to be able to set-and-forget - schedule it now so it gets recorded when it later gets into the EPG.

Likewise I may add movies to a "wish list" so they get recorded when/if they ever get broadcast at some unspecified time in the future.


I wonder if this functionality might be possible with a future version of NPVR.

[mvallevand]

One nice feature that Windows Media Centre had was to be able to schedule a "speculative recording" from a wish list - to be able to say "record any programme with a title that matches X even though nothing like this is in the EPG at present".

My Searchlite addon did this. It even downloaded a list of upcoming shows for North America and Britain for upcoming months and plays back trailers for some shows. However no one used it so I have basically dropped support for the feature after one of the web sites I used changed formats a little while back. When I have time I likely will fix it because I like using the feature myself, not watching.

Martin

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One nice feature that Windows Media Centre had was to be able to schedule a "speculative recording" from a wish list - to be able to say "record any programme with a title that matches X even though nothing like this is in the EPG at present".

Sometimes trailers for a new programme may be shown on TV even though it is too far ahead for the EPG, and it's nice to be able to set-and-forget - schedule it now so it gets recorded when it later gets into the EPG.

Likewise I may add movies to a "wish list" so they get recorded when/if they ever get broadcast at some unspecified time in the future.


I wonder if this functionality might be possible with a future version of NPVR.

In the TV Guide, you can select 'Keyword' from the top menu, and type a keyword or name, and if those show up in the TV guide at some later stage, they'll be scheduled.

[martinu]

In the TV Guide, you can select 'Keyword' from the top menu, and type a keyword or name, and if those show up in the TV guide at some later stage, they'll be scheduled.

Brilliant. That seems to do exactly what I was suggesting. Certainly it's matched titles which *are* currently in the EPG, so it will be interesting to see (not that I doubt you!) what happens in a few days' time when new items are added to the EPG.

I tend to forget about that top toolbar "Menu Sort Filter Man-Rec Keyword Forget Archive" because it is not displayed permanently. I wonder whether it's worth having a configuration option in Settings so the user can choose whether to display that menu all the time or only when the mouse hovers over it - in the same way as Windows allows you to configure the Taskbar to be permanent or hover-only.

[martint123]

It crossed my mind that is could be made to fade in and out or appear and disappear when entering a menu page just as a reminder.