Record Themes

[ReplayHarry]

Being and old ReplayTV guy (I'm both old and a former ReplayTV user, just gave away my last 2 working units), I was used to having the ability to have a "theme" recording setup. For instance, I could setup a record with the words "Sherlock Holmes" and it would record every TV show having those exact letters in the title. For instance, "Sherlock Holmes in Washington". When I setup that recording I would also indicate how much storage space (in hours) to allocate to it. It worked great. I'd just turn on my system in the morning and be happy to find a new "Sherlock Holmes" movie recorded.
While I now have a complete collection of all of Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes movies, it would sure be nice to setup a "theme" so I could automatically record a specific movie that might come on in the future. Like "Goldfinger". That way I wouldn't have to be doing searches all the time.

It seems like searchlite might be able to do this, but I haven't figured out how to do it. Maybe someone on this forum could point me in the right direction.
I'd appreciate ant help that might be offered.

[mvallevand]

Sounds like you want keyword recordings on the hidden menu in recordings and oddly in the guide too.

Martin

[BrettB]

Native NextPVR allows you to create Keyword and Manual Recordings by going to a Recordings screen then accessing the top menu and selecting Keyword or Man-Rec.

Keyword recordings will search for the "Keyword" string specified anywhere in the Title, Subtitle, or Description.

The Man-Rec allows you specify a SQL Where clause which gives access to all of the EPG fields/information. (This one can be used, for instance, so create a rule to record all show premiers where Season=1 and Episode=1.) Creating these rules can be tricky if you don't really understanding the underlying database structure. If someone would like help creating one of these, just put a post on the forums describing what you're trying to accomplish, and one of us can give you the proper string to put in a manual recording advanced rule.

[ReplayHarry]

Thank you BrettB. You gave me exactly what I needed. I figured there must be an easy way to do what I was asking, but didn't know now to get started.
I seem to learn something new about NextPVR all the time.