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Autorecord for Pilots - need help

Added by Senor SmartyPants about 6 years ago

I migrated from MythTV to TVH a month or two back and so far I'm liking it.

I had a mythtv autorecord rule that would find all the pilot episodes for series (so I could pick and choose what I might want to start watching). It looked at just the episode subtitle for 'pilot' and checked the episode number for S01E01.

I made a TVH autorec that is as close to that as I can figure out. Title (regexp) is 'pilot' and it's set to fulltext. But this looks in summary and description as well. And I can figure out a way to record based on episode number. Is that possible?

I'd like it to match subtitle of 'pilot' OR episode number S01E01. Not every first series episode is called 'pilot'.

Thanks.


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RE: Autorecord for Pilots - need help - Added by Em Smith about 6 years ago

Is the subtitle purely the word "pilot"? You could try to anchor the search as "^pilot$" so it searches for just that word which will reduce the chance of it matching in the description or as part of a sub-title.

I don't think you can limit by a specific episode number unless your "epg" provider (xmltv? over the air?) provides it in a way that can be matched by a regex. For example some include the season & episode number in the text. Some xmltv epg providers also only set "new" for the very first episode of a season (unlike mythtv which sets the "new" flag itself for the two weeks around broadcast), so that might also work for you.

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