AutoTimers are cool!

[simoncasey]

Super helpful bunch you are. Thank you very much. I will get to work on my .xml after dinner. This will be much faster than keying it all in via GUI.

OpenWebIF is another option as you can copy and paste titles.

[Trial_Master]

Ok thanks will look into that too. I have so much stuff in a word document I put together so I remember what to do after cracking the box open

[Trial_Master]

Hi Peter

I've added all my series into a new autotimer.xml that was quite painless thanks. I have a few shows that are daily and will most likely have same description, what value do I change? I assume it's avoidDuplicateDescription="3"?

Also what does 'Add similar timer on conflict' do exactly?

[prl]

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I've added all my series into a new autotimer.xml that was quite painless thanks. I have a few shows that are daily and will most likely have same description, what value do I change? I assume it's avoidDuplicateDescription="3"?

The numbers for that reflect the settings as:

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				("0", _("No")),
				("1", _("On same service")),
				("2", _("On any service")),
				("3", _("Any service/recording")),

Also what does 'Add similar timer on conflict' do exactly?

I think that if a recording can't be set because of a tuner conflict and there's another matching EPG entry with the same title & descriptions, it will record that instead. Something that people on IceTV have been asking for for years

I have no idea how well it works, or even if it does.

[Trial_Master]

Once again thank you

[celicasx]

Hi all,

Interested to understand why setting up some defaults in the autotimer.xml file doesn't seem to work.

I have the following settings;

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<autotimer version="7">
 <defaults searchType="exact">
  <bouquet>1:7:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:FROM BOUQUET "userbouquet.favourites__tv_.tv" ORDER BY bouquet</bouquet> <!-- Favourites (TV) -->
  <exclude where="shortdescription">\[RPT\]</exclude>
  <exclude where="shortdescription">(?i)rpt</exclude>
  <exclude where="description">\[RPT\]</exclude>
  <exclude where="description">(?i)rpt</exclude>
 </defaults>

 <timer name="800 Words" match="800 Words" enabled="yes" offset="5,15" avoidDuplicateDescription="3" searchType="exact" overrideAlternatives="1">
   </timer>

 <timer name="Grey&apos;s Anatomy" match="Grey&apos;s Anatomy" enabled="yes" avoidDuplicateDescription="3" searchType="exact" overrideAlternatives="1">

 </timer>

For Grey's Anatomy, there's a repeat on early Monday morning and when I put the exclude RPT or rpt setting in the default section, it still picks it up. Previously my autotimer had the exclude rpt setting against the individual entry and it didn't pick up the repeat.

Any reason why this might be?

Also, I notice that when you 'simulate' the timers, the default setting of bouquet favourites doesn't seem to have any effect (although it does when it's set against each timer). The actual timers are only showing once, so I wonder if it's anything I really need to worry about?

Regards
Rob

[prl]

When defaults are applied, they are copied into the autotimer. Those autotimers haven't had the defaults applied.

Were the autotimers created before you set up the defaults?

[celicasx]

Thanks Peter, I thought I'd try and be clever and tidy up the xml file and remove what I thought were just superfluous entries..... not thinking that it's used to set up 'future' timers.

Got it now.... Time to copy and past them back in.

Regards
Rob

[celicasx]

OK, everything's copied back in and mostly working.

Having trouble setting up a 'Survivor: Cambodia' AT though.

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<timer name="Survivor: Cambodia" match="Survivor: Cambodia" enabled="yes" avoidDuplicateDescription="3" searchType="exact" overrideAlternatives="1">
  <bouquet>1:7:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:FROM BOUQUET "userbouquet.favourites__tv_.tv" ORDER BY bouquet</bouquet> <!-- Favourites (TV) -->
  <exclude where="shortdescription">\[RPT\]</exclude>
  <exclude where="shortdescription">(?i)rpt</exclude>
  <exclude where="description">\[RPT\]</exclude>
  <exclude where="description">(?i)rpt</exclude>

Everything there is pretty standard which works for every other show, for some reason it won't pick up Thursday's entry for me. When I simulate via Webif, it shows it, but checking the timers through both Webif and the T2 directly it won't set up the next recoding.

Any thoughts?

Regards
Rob

[Trial_Master]

Hi Rob

I'm on Ice EPG hence the question. Is the description unique on each episode? Peter has some good info here if so viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9641

[prl]

The displayed description looks generic, and looks like it may be the same in every episode, so removing duplicates is probably not appropriate. If there are "encore" episodes, you may need to find some other way of filtering them.

This problem is discussed in the guide, in the "Avoiding recording recently-shown shows" section.

[blonk]

I don't seem to be able to update Autotimers via Webif. I've tried from my iPad and IMac via Chrome. I make a change, then select save. It pops up a small message saying Autotimer saved, but when I look at it again, nothing has changed. Any thoughts?

Blonk

[grantc]

Trying to create a AutoTimer to record all documentaries... is it possible?

[MrQuade]

Trying to create a AutoTimer to record all documentaries... is it possible?

You could set one up to record anything with "documentary", or "doco" in the description.

The shows are also tagged with genre information, but I don't think it is applied by the broadcasters reliably enough for that to be a useful flag to search for,

[grantc]

Trying to create a AutoTimer to record all documentaries... is it possible?

You could set one up to record anything with "documentary", or "doco" in the description.

The shows are also tagged with genre information, but I don't think it is applied by the broadcasters reliably enough for that to be a useful flag to search for,

Thanks; had already setup one up as you suggested with no luck... cheers

[MrQuade]

Thanks; had already setup one up as you suggested with no luck... cheers

Are you able to provide more information?

Did it fail to record shows with "documentary" in the description? Or did it not catch everything you wanted to to catch?

[Grumpy_Geoff]

Thanks; had already setup one up as you suggested with no luck... cheers

Are you using -
'Match title' of "documentary", and
'Search type' of "description match", and
'Search strictness' of "case insensitive search"?

[grantc]

Thanks; had already setup one up as you suggested with no luck... cheers

Are you using -
'Match title' of "documentary", and
'Search type' of "description match", and
'Search strictness' of "case insensitive search"?

Thanks for your assistance; eventually worked it out in the end. Not going to capture all Docos with the inconsistencies in the FTA EPG.