"Shows you might want to watch", a plugin challenge ;)

[Reddwarf]

How about a plugin writer, or a group of plugin writers make a plugin that automatic scans the EPG after each update (or at a scheduled time) looking for "shows of interest". The user must give the plugin some keywords to be found in title, subtitle or description of the show, or some phrases to look for. The plugin then makes a list of suggestions that the user can browse through and select for recording or dismiss.

Building in some AI in this plugin, it can store as many keywords as possible that itself finds in show description and make a rank of what keywords (or phrases) that most often is found in shows actually selected by the user, and give them a ranking. Using these keywords in the following searches the plugin gets more and more clever at selecting shows the user really wants.

Anyone up for the challenge?

[martint123]

Sadly not for the challenge, but to add to the request.
I must have 100's of cheated season recordings set up trying to catch shows of interest

[isgdre]

or you could just install the xsuite plugin as that's pretty much the only way I watch tv.

[Reddwarf]

or you could just install the xsuite plugin as that's pretty much the only way I watch tv.

Won't do me any good since it will not be ported to NPVR....

[tvshowman]

I use searchwiz to plan my 12 day guide once a week using saved search phrases or to browse everything showing tomorrow or only on the pay tv channels hehe. Although it is not an auto record plugi it is an amazing plugin that no pvr out there can match. I use it all the time to display all shows starting next hour or two etc... I think JavaWiz would love the idea of an auto record feature based off of search queries with good guide data it could probably ignore all shows already scheduled etc...

Think bat-mobile and any show that mentions a batmobile or even Geoerge Barris would be recorded. or a music artist etc... How about 2010 for the movie channel. all movies made in 2010 would be flagged to record that would be pretty awesome.

I don't know if JavaWiz will be porting to NVPVR (New Video PVR - hehe sry sub it rolls off the tongue better and new videos is what it's all about ) but I hope he will continue with it. He has been very busy.

[Reddwarf]

Think bat-mobile and any show that mentions a batmobile or even Geoerge Barris would be recorded. or a music artist etc... How about 2010 for the movie channel. all movies made in 2010 would be flagged to record that would be pretty awesome.

That was something along those lines I had in mind. Let's say I put in the keywords "underwater", "diving" and "archology". All the shows that the plugin suggest to me AND I select for recording also containg the word "Bermuda", the plugin should be that intelligent than when it finds a show NOT containing my keywords but "Bermuda" (and perhaps words with the same meaning as my keywords) it should suggest that show also.