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muzicman0

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Recording Rules editor
« on: December 27, 2015, 05:10:07 pm »

What would be the easiest way to keep a television series to not record a movie with the same name?  For example, I have recorded the movie Limitless 2 times now, since it has the same name as a series I record.  Can you add something to the recording rules editor that would help?

Also, a while ago you were planning on adding series and episode info to the subscription editor...any progress on that?
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RoderickGI

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Re: Recording Rules editor
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2015, 08:10:16 pm »

Are you currently using the default rule of;
([Name]="Limitless" or [Series]="Limitless")

If you are confident in your EPG data identifying the TV series as a Series, which just means that there will be a program Title and Sub-title in the EPG data, just take out the reference to [Name] and use;
[Series]="Limitless"

The movie Limitless shouldn't have a Sub-title in the EPG data, and so will have a [Name] of "Limitless", but no [Series] information.

Or you could be more specific and say;
[Series]=[Limitless] -[Name]=[]   (Series is equal to Limitless and Name is not blank. As a TV series will have an episode name in the [Name] tag, it will never be empty.)

Or be a little cautious and say;
[Series]="Limitless" -[Name]=[]   (Series contains Limitless and Name is not blank.)

Although thinking about it both of those are a little redundant, as the [Name] tag can never actually be blank.

Of course that would assume that your EPG data always contained both Title and Sub-title field values for the TV series, which become [Series] and [Name] tags respectively. But that is probably a fair assumption, even if the Sub-title/[Name] ends up with a default value of "Limitless".

Note:
For a TV Series;
EPG Title becomes the [Series] tag
EPG Sub-title becomes the [Name] tag

For a Movie;
EPG Title becomes the [Name] tag
EPG Sub-title usually doesn't exist. If there is one, I think it is appended to the Title and used in the [Name] tag. But I would have to check that to be sure. The only example I can find quickly just has both the title and sub-title in the EPG Title field. i.e. "Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups" is in the EPG Title field, and the EPG Sub-title field is blank. Whether those rules are followed depends on your EPG source.
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