On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:03:29PM +1000, Phill Edwards wrote: > I've installed it and modified some of the list files and run tvwish > with v=3. I've put a line in topseries.txt of "Very Little Britain" > and also tried it in suggest as "Suggest-Title: Very Little Britain". > I can't get it to set it up as a recording, however, because I noticed > that the query string requires it to be category_type='series' or 1st > episode number or a pilot.
The suggest-title should work fine. However, and this is something I forgot to document, you must have programids. Here in North America, the listing service gives everything a programid. For outside, I believe the more recent versions of mythfilldatabase also create a program id. Do you have those? > > What I'm trying to do is tell it to record a program called Very > Little Britain whenever it sees it on TV. I don't care whether it's a > pilot episode or not. I noticed that in my program table category_type > and syndicatedepisodenumber and subtitle are all null. So how should I > set up the rules to do this? Or am I trying to do something it's not > designed for. To do a specific wish for something with no subtitle like that you use the "Show:" wish. It's really very similar to the movie wish, but it doesn't deal with a year or insist it be a movie. > > PS - I'm in Australia so my EPG data doesn't come from zap2it or > anything like that. It's generated from a web site scrape. I have not been able to test. Check your database for programids. If you don't have them, some functions won't work, but I was of the impression everybody had them. To test suggestions, run in test mode and suggest several hours. You may not get your top choice on the first round -- it is deliberately random -- but if you don't get it after several rounds of testing something may be going wrong. As to why the programids? Well, MythTV was not originally written with a means to say "Record this _show_" where a show means a particular show, be it a movie or a special or a particular episode of a series. You can ask to record a title (which works for movies and specials but not series) and you can ask to record a show at a specific time (which loses the ability to switch to alternate showings). However, somewhere around 0.16 it got the ability to do a general SQL query as a recording, so I use the programid, which in zap2it land is a descriptor unique to a "show". I could use "title/subtitle" but in fact this is what the programid is designed for. Eventually, myth will probably get a more official "record show" and I'll stick to that. Tivo only offers three choices -- record show on channel, record series on channel, and record wishlist, and that actually does decently, though it's not as powerful as mythtv's set.
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