Allow the search to provide a match a user can select for recording regardless of that programs pressence in the EPG.
Use case:
New series to premier in the fall but it’s still the spring. Since I saw the trailer today I want to create a schedule for when it airs. Then I don’t have to keep tracking the news to find the premier date and create a calendar event to create the schedule.
Similar to but without the mysql syntax:
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Custom_Recording
sounds a lot like what i asked for forums.plex.tv/discussion/230821/feature-request-wish-list-and-complete-movies#latest
It is but this is in the Feature Request Voting area. Not sure if it matters since the #1 feature request yet to be implemented is over 4 years old but who knows.
To expand on your idea: Set recording event based on keyword match with EPG and also be able to specific date/time/channel/duration.
Example: Schedule recording for programs with keywords “EAGLES” & " FOOTBALL"
So a keyword search with an “AND”/“OR” matching mechanics on title or subtitle as well as a Gracenote metadata match instead of a program guide search. When I ran MythTV I used both. I would search zap2it for the series id then use that as matching criteria. I would also create recording rules that matched keywords for sporting events based on title and subtitle matches like “title contains ‘college football’ and subtitle contains ‘purdue’”. I found the ability to use both very useful and very effective once you figured out all the bits you needed to match on.
We need the ability to create manual recording timers. There are several use cases:
EPG data is wrong or we know a show is often delayed by sports, or is sports and might run for a very long time over it’s slot, etc. So, in this case, I would like to be able to say Record on Sunday on channel 123 from 7PM - 12AM. The name of the recording would have to be determined as well, perhaps allow a name to be specified.
Scheduling of shows that are not currently in season, i.e., wildcard matching. Perhaps I know next summer I want to record all new episodes of “Beach Volleyball” or who knows what. So, I would be allowed a title search, i.e., record anything that has beach volleyball in the title. Perhaps with wildcards, so, beach volleyball This allows me to set up timers in advance and not forget and miss content, or, perhaps record more beach volleyball that I thought existed due to variations of the title. Another example might be football in the title, that might get college games, pro games, preseason games, etc. Or, maybe I only want games for Oklahoma, maybe football oklahoma . This can get me content I might otherwise miss and also save a lot of time searching each week.
Agreed… …
I also long for this feature; and am very concerned I won’t be able to record a program that is currently incorrect in the EPG.
We should absolutely be able to manually schedule a recording as stated by one user in the post.
There are many times that the EPG data is wrong and we need to be able to set a recording with a start and ending times, channel number and recording title.
Perfect example, the New York Jets have a game on CBS this Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 7:30 pm. Currently the EPG shows NCIS from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm, followed by FBI from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm, and other shows that follow.
From my past experience, these shows normally do air on CBS at these times on Saturday, but when there is a preseason football game scheduled, the network moves the regular programming to it’s sister station on a different channel
At this time, I have no way of recording the football game unless I schedule each show as they appear in the EPG and then watch each one.
This was the most frustrating issue when we moved to Plex from EyeTV.
It was very useful being able to set up “smart recordings” with include and exclude parameters. Keyword, genre, media type, show name, season, episode name, episode number, description, actors, director, year, channel name, channel number, duration, rating, start time, end time, day of the week, weekdays, resolution and likely more I don’t remember.
I used some very specific settings to re-record episodes with weather banners or other issues:
[Show (contains) “Big Bang” & Season (is) “4” & Episode (contains) “Zazzy”]
Others were more of a wildcard search to catch something we might want to watch:
[Title (contains) “volleyball” & Genre (is) “sports”]
Exclusions helped with errors and omissions in the EPG:
[Media (is) “movie” & Resolution (is not) “SD” & Duration (>) “1:20”]
Regular reoccurring recordings:
[Genre (is) “news” & Channel (is) “5.1” & Start Time (between) “16:55”;”17:35” & Weekday (true)]
Manual recordings:
[Record (at) “10:00” (for) “1:00” & Day (is) “sunday” & Channel (is) “7.1”] …anyone thinking JIRA?
We’ve come a long way… Or have we? At this time we may record anything we find in the Guide. The VCRs of the early 90’s had the same functionality using VCR-plus. Many of us remember entering a short numeric code from the newspaper guide that set the time, date, and channel for us. Of course back then, we could also set a manual recording.
We signed on to Plex when DVR was still in beta. We were not pleased with the bugs and shortcomings in functionality for a project that should have had a very clear set of goals. Stability has improved greatly and usage has expanded but it is time to remove the training wheels and give us a full, rich set of DVR tools.
Another problem: I’ve noticed both duplicate and incorrect season/episode names for programs in the guide. If two episodes have the same name (for example, last Thursday’s 9/5 Dr. Phil appeared as “S13 E212,” and so did today’s 9/9 – so the DVR SKIPPED the new episode today, simply because the name was the same, even though I have it set to record all episodes, all times. I confirmed this by deleting the copy of last Friday’s 9/10 named “S13 E213” – then tomorrow’s 9/10 new episode also labeled “S13 E213” re-appeared in the recording schedule, This is really frustrating for some shows, like NBC Nightly News, which has been labeled incorrectly for months, and the recordings consistently show the wrong date. It seems since the DVR will work only if the guide has the correct labels and dates, the manual setting is necessary to overcome the abundant human error in the guide data.
I have a need for this immediately! A show I want to record tomorrow night shows up as “Unknown Airing” in the guide. As such I have no option for recording it. Why not at least allow me to record that block of time in the guide? Or if not, provide the manual recording option. I could do this with my TiVo 20 years ago, and with my VCR before that… Not having this option is pretty lame IMHO.
This issue with this show will go away from the 24th September
See NBC Nightly News - Wrong Date as Episode Title - #11 by sa2000
The fix for the gaps that shows as Unknown Airing has now been deployed to the live service and I just checked the UK channels and we have zero gaps. The same issue led also to xxx Programming
A full EPG manual refresh would correct all the gaps and xxx programming erroneous entries
There is still a need for the ability to schedule a recording in the absence of EPG data. Today (20/11/2019) both ITV2 and ITV 4 have no EPG data beyond Friday (22/11/2019). An obvious work-around would be to have the ability to set up recordings using programme information available from either the station web-site or from the more archaic printed listings (where I can see programme information up to next Friday 29/11/2019).
Since the quality control of the EPG provider still seems to be poor what is the main objection or obstacle to permitting manually scheduling?
We definitely need the ability to create a custom recording at a specified date/time on a certain channel. Great example: tomorrow night my state is airing a last-minute townhall with the governor about COVID-19 and I wanted to record it, but the guide (and all other guides on the internet) are showing the normal schedule. When I asked the station about this, they said they’ll look into getting the guide corrected, but given how it was all very last minute, I can’t set a recording for it. I could try to set it to record the program that’s on in the same timeslot, but if they actually do get around to updating the guide, that means it won’t record because it’ll be the wrong program. It’d be much easier just to say “I KNOW without a doubt something is on that I want to see from 7-8pm on the 26th on this station, so just record exactly what I specify, please!”
I have a local channel that is not in the guide. I have no way to record this channel, but it is my most watched channel. I agree that we need the ability to record channel X at 7PM for YY minutes.
We would need an option in the tuner setup for “manual recording”, maybe added at the end of available channels for EPG.
I would love this feature as well. My state has a 2-4pm COVID-19 update which is EXTREMELY informative and useful every Monday-Saturday. I can set it up to record the other TV shows that are normally scheduled for these time slots Monday-Friday, but the Saturday schedule is all over the place and changes every single week, I missed it today since it was “Women’s Golf” from 1-3:30pm then “PGA Tour Classic” from 3:30-5pm and I had not grabbed those. Had I done so that would also have meant grabbing an extra two ours of recording than I cared about.
There are MANY uses for setting a manual record date/time/channel, and I would think this should be easier to implement than the EPG recordings.
I just ran into an issue with a recording not being added in Plex, My assumption would be a feature to add the time/date/channel would alleviate this issue, as well as make sense for the Pandemic we are currently in and how news coverage is working right now.
We have a daily broadcast from the governor about COVID-19 that happens at 2:30. It would be awesome to be able to add a manual recording to catch this. I am working from home during this time and I am often on calls for work.
