2023-07-28, 10:57 AM
Hi,
So, after a while of using NextPVR now, I'm somewhat struggling to really make use of it. This may be an issue that I'm coming from mythtv and have some (wrong) expectations set by that. However, here's my issue:
We frequently miss shows that we'd want to watch because we forget to schedule a recording for each of them all the time. I can't find a way to allow scheduling recording being more flexible. All I can see is to set a schedule on a particular title in the guide, or set a timer by date and time. Both of them may be recurring, but that's not really that useful.
As an example, let's look at Formula 1. Assuming I'd want to record every race, I can't figure out how to set up a rule that would do that. Doing that by timer is not really an option because while it happens (usually) on a biweekly basis, the actual time differs for every race given it's a live event presented at the local time of the location it happens. Also the biweekly basis isn't set. A special holiday may skip a week and so on... Also I can't schedule it by title, because the title changes for every race too. One is "Formula 1: Grand Prix of Hockenheim", the next one is "Formula 1: Grand Prix of Melbourne". I can't see a way to schedule a rule by "Formula 1: *" for instance.
Now the F1 is really just an example, I am not actually interested in that, but the same applies to many many other shows. Like the german "Tatort" has exactly the same issue. It's "Tatort: Bla bla", varying the title for every week, just as another example.
Maybe I'm just missing something and this is possible? But I couldn't find anything neither in the Kodi frontend nor the NextPVR web interface.
So, after a while of using NextPVR now, I'm somewhat struggling to really make use of it. This may be an issue that I'm coming from mythtv and have some (wrong) expectations set by that. However, here's my issue:
We frequently miss shows that we'd want to watch because we forget to schedule a recording for each of them all the time. I can't find a way to allow scheduling recording being more flexible. All I can see is to set a schedule on a particular title in the guide, or set a timer by date and time. Both of them may be recurring, but that's not really that useful.
As an example, let's look at Formula 1. Assuming I'd want to record every race, I can't figure out how to set up a rule that would do that. Doing that by timer is not really an option because while it happens (usually) on a biweekly basis, the actual time differs for every race given it's a live event presented at the local time of the location it happens. Also the biweekly basis isn't set. A special holiday may skip a week and so on... Also I can't schedule it by title, because the title changes for every race too. One is "Formula 1: Grand Prix of Hockenheim", the next one is "Formula 1: Grand Prix of Melbourne". I can't see a way to schedule a rule by "Formula 1: *" for instance.
Now the F1 is really just an example, I am not actually interested in that, but the same applies to many many other shows. Like the german "Tatort" has exactly the same issue. It's "Tatort: Bla bla", varying the title for every week, just as another example.
Maybe I'm just missing something and this is possible? But I couldn't find anything neither in the Kodi frontend nor the NextPVR web interface.
