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<blockquote data-quote="Anthony Vaughan" data-source="post: 1291620" data-attributes="member: 153283">In the UK an American show, NCIS, has several series being broadcast on the same day. As a consequence, when I choose to record the latest series 'Weekly on this channel' pretty well every episode, of all channels, gets scheduled to record. This made me think that we need another schedule type called 'Matching series on this channel' which schedules all programs with the same 'seriesNum' as the selected program and not being null. To achieve this, the series number needs to be stored in the schedule record and I think the 'directory' field would be a suitable field to use as I can't see that it is used at present. I have changed the code in TvPlugin to make this work and am currently using that code and testing it.There are two issues that I think should be resolved:a) Does anyone know whether there is a scenario where the directory field is used?b) The EPG is notoriously inconsistent and I suspect that the 'seriesNum' field cannot be relied on to always have a value.I, long ago, developed an application to extract series information from the description field to populate the seriesNum and episodeNum fields and have written functionality to update these fields manually. This means that I am set up to manage series information and to plug holes in the EPG when series information is missing. But MediaPortal doesn't have this functionality. This is, I think, an issue.While I am at it, does anyone have any other ideas for schedule types that might be useful in future because I will probably be able to add them?Tony</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anthony Vaughan, post: 1291620, member: 153283"] In the UK an American show, NCIS, has several series being broadcast on the same day. As a consequence, when I choose to record the latest series 'Weekly on this channel' pretty well every episode, of all channels, gets scheduled to record. This made me think that we need another schedule type called 'Matching series on this channel' which schedules all programs with the same 'seriesNum' as the selected program and not being null. To achieve this, the series number needs to be stored in the schedule record and I think the 'directory' field would be a suitable field to use as I can't see that it is used at present. I have changed the code in TvPlugin to make this work and am currently using that code and testing it. There are two issues that I think should be resolved: a) Does anyone know whether there is a scenario where the directory field is used? b) The EPG is notoriously inconsistent and I suspect that the 'seriesNum' field cannot be relied on to always have a value. I, long ago, developed an application to extract series information from the description field to populate the seriesNum and episodeNum fields and have written functionality to update these fields manually. This means that I am set up to manage series information and to plug holes in the EPG when series information is missing. But MediaPortal doesn't have this functionality. This is, I think, an issue. While I am at it, does anyone have any other ideas for schedule types that might be useful in future because I will probably be able to add them? Tony [/QUOTE]

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