How do I do an Advanced Search?

[Tinker]

My wife is a Christmas FREEK! I would like to be able to search the EPG for Holiday specials or christmas shows. Not all christmas specials have the word Christmas in the title. I installed the TVGuideSuperCharger to get more info about each program but the search window seems to still only search the title.

Is there anything out there that I can use (plugin or utility) to search for something like this?

[fuzzweed]

the web admin has better search functionality than the guide - try that...

[Jeff]

You might try the ShowSearch plug-in.

Jeff

[Tinker]

The ShowSearch plugin appears (from the description) to only check the show title also. Is that right, anyone?

[Jeff]

The show search plug-in can also search the description.

[Jim_]

My wife is a Christmas FREEK! I would like to be able to search the EPG for Holiday specials or christmas shows. Not all christmas specials have the word Christmas in the title. I installed the TVGuideSuperCharger to get more info about each program but the search window seems to still only search the title.

Is there anything out there that I can use (plugin or utility) to search for something like this?

Hi Tinker, these are the ones I’m familiar with.
Using the Enhanced WebAdmin (Build 51 or above, the older one had a genre search issue)
Select the “Episode Search” tab
Choose “Holiday special” from the “Genre:” drop-down menu.
Click “submit”.


Searching from the TV with your remote, using TVGuide Supercharger & TV Listings.

1. Install TV Listings.

2. Edit I-xmltv.ini using notepad, choose a channel that is not in use (1 is the default). Then enable the FIND channel by changing “SET TheFindChannel=0” to “SET TheFindChannel=1” in UpdateEPG.bat.
Update your epg, you will have a FIND channel listed in your guide.

The genre are listed alphabetically, use the FF / skip buttons on the remote to highlight the genre you’re interested in.
Press ok on the remote.
Right arrow over to “Find More” and press ok again.
Choose “By Genre” from the menu.
The shows will be listed in the order they air.


More TV Listings tips.
In gbpvr config, go to the TV Listings settings and “include the last (3) days in the guide”.

You can disable the built-in “TV Guide” plugin and use TV Listings as your default guide.
If you want the “Guide” button to bring up TV Listings, simply edit the gbpvr “config.xml” file with notepad.
Search for “<DefaultPluginGuide>” and change the line to look like this.

Code:

<!-- Default plugins -->
  [B]<DefaultPluginGuide>TV Listings</DefaultPluginGuide>[/B]

[Jim_]

If you want to risk all kinds of holiday side affects you can use this for one of the two available custom search entries in I-xmltv.ini

Remember to add the new genre you just created "Christmas specials" to the alphabetical genre list in I-xmltv.ini so you can search for it using TV Listings.
But "Christmas specials" will be a searchable genre entry in the EWA, even if you dont add it to the alphabetical genre list.

Code:

<ConditionalGenre-2>
    <GenreName>Christmas specials</GenreName>
    <NameInDescription>False</NameInDescription>
    <MovieOnly>False</MovieOnly>
    <FromYear>1800</FromYear>
    <UntilYear>3000</UntilYear>
    <IfGenre>Holiday</IfGenre>
    <IfGenre>Holiday special</IfGenre>
    <IfGenre>Holiday-children special</IfGenre>
    <IfGenre>Holiday music special</IfGenre>
    <IfGenre></IfGenre>
  </ConditionalGenre-2>

[Tinker]

Jim_,

Thanks! I somehow missed the TV Listings Plugin. This look like just what I am looking for. I am going to try it out tonight.

Is the web admin built into GBPVR now or does it still require a seperate install? It sounded like, on the wiki, that it has been bundled with GBPVR in the latest version. Is that right? Are there any guides or tips using/setting up the web admin?

[Jim_]

Hi Tinker,
Yes the EWA is included with gbpvr, it just needs to me enabled in the gbpvr config utility.

Update to the latest version (v52) before enabling it in config.
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utili...edWebAdmin

Then you click on this link to access in your web browser.
http://localhost:7647/gbpvr/guide.aspx

The EWA is very popular and has its own support section located here: http://forums.gbpvr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=21

[Tinker]

I tried out the EWA. I love it. Very powerful.

I have two MVPs so it would be nice to be able to do the advanced search with a remote. The TV Listings plugin is really nice and can do what I want, sort of. If I have a program in the EPG that is of the same genre that I am looking for I can use the "find more" option to search for that genre but I can not input the genre that I want from scratch (at least not as far as I can tell) and do a search like the EWA does.

Thanks for all the tips! Thanks Sub for a great program! I would like to help document the program if there is a need. It would be wonderful to have a PDF of help files to go with the program. I know that it is constantly changing so that is difficult but if there is a need let me know. Sub?

Tinker