Bug 1: First of, if I use the search, and I wish to find something in the Guide, I have to have selected the guide before I search. It will not search the Guide otherwise.
Bug 2: The search in the guide is faulty, this is tested with the word københavn, it will not find it in all airings.
This search is IN the guide for the word københavn
1 - That is by design. The quick search (the drop down you see) does not look in the guide unless you are in the guide.
2 - The results shown in quick search only list the first 3 results. You need to click on “show more” to get to the page with more results.
Do you get meaningful results if you search for k0benhavn instead? (that’s a zero in there)
If you do, then that’s a bug which has been reported already.
I see, I haven’t seen that mentioned anywhere.
So taken the reply from 1) into consideration, searching when being in the guide, shows the results from the guide at the bottom of the expanded result? Simply illogical. But it does show all the københavn in the result. So I guess they are not bugs, just odd design decisions and poor HCI design.
It is clear that the dvr function is a function cluttered into Plex, and not a native part, which gives a less than perfect overall experience.
If you’re already in the Guide, the quick search results will be from Guide content.
Does that not imply that you can also search while OUT of the guide?
Also searching the guide does not appear to be working. Here are a few issues(and I apologize if some of these bugs are actually features not implemented. I’ve played with both Plex and Emby):
But for something later in time the search won’t come up. I would give an example but when I go into the future on the guide, the results automatically cache on the server so then when I go to search the results come up.
Ok sorry. Searching a channel name was a feature of Emby and for some reason since Plex has been around longer I thought it would include it (Plex and Emby seem to be main competitors to one another). I suppose we can do a feature request to allow searching for an actual channel from the EPG?
EDIT: Once a user clicks on a matching channel, Plex takes the user to a channel overview. And it can’t be that much of a guessing game. Here’s some examples (taken from Emby)
