Is it possible to add a series pass as a category. For example - record movies on TMC, this would record all the movies on that channel without having to select each one.
It would be awesome to have more generic passes, by category or keyword. Cartoons, Movies…record anything that has a show description of “Green Bay Packers”.
It’s possible to create an Advanced pass from the web UI, which will you do some matching. It doesn’t work for show descriptions, but some other fields are available for matching.
For instance you could create a pass with the conditions Channel == 123 and Categories == Movie to record all movies on a specific channel.
Awesome, I’ll give that a shot.
How does one discover the list of viable Categories and Tags available? Is there a way to scour the guide data to see what’s in use and/or is there documentation on standard choices?
There is not a good discovery mechanism at the moment. Here’s a partial list.
"Premiere",
"Series Premiere",
"Series Finale",
"Season Premiere",
"Season Finale",
"Live",
"New",
"HDTV",
"DD 5.1",
"DVS",
"CC",
"Tape",
"Delay",
"Subject to blackout"
Movie
Series
Show
Episode
Paid Programming
Sports non-event
Sports event
"Action",
"Action sports",
"Adults only",
"Adventure",
"Aerobics",
"Agriculture",
"Alpine skiing",
"Animals",
"Animated",
"Anime",
"Anthology",
"Archery",
"Arm wrestling",
"Art",
"Arts/crafts",
"Auction",
"Australian rules football",
"Auto",
"Auto racing",
"Aviation",
"Awards",
"Badminton",
"Ballet",
"Bandy",
"Baseball",
"Basketball",
"Beach soccer",
"Beach volleyball",
"Biathlon",
"Bicycle",
"Bicycle racing",
"Billiards",
"Biography",
"Blackjack",
"Boat",
"Boat racing",
"Bobsled",
"Bodybuilding",
"Bowling",
"Bowls",
"Boxing",
"Bull riding",
"Bullfighting",
"Bus./financial",
"Canoe",
"Card games",
"Cheerleading",
"Children",
"Children-music",
"Children-special",
"Children-talk",
"Collectibles",
"Comedy",
"Comedy drama",
"Community",
"Computers",
"Consumer",
"Cooking",
"Cricket",
"Crime",
"Crime drama",
"Cross-country skiing",
"Curling",
"Cycling",
"Dance",
"Dark comedy",
"Darts",
"Debate",
"Diving",
"Docudrama",
"Documentary",
"Dog racing",
"Dog show",
"Dog sled",
"Drag racing",
"Drama",
"Drift racing",
"Educational",
"Entertainment",
"Environment",
"Equestrian",
"Erotic",
"Event",
"Exercise",
"Fantasy",
"Fashion",
"Fencing",
"Field hockey",
"Figure skating",
"Fishing",
"Floorball",
"Football",
"Freestyle Skiing",
"French",
"Fundraiser",
"Futsal",
"Gaelic football",
"Game show",
"Gaming",
"Gay/lesbian",
"Golf",
"Gymnastics",
"Handball",
"Harness racing",
"Health",
"Historical drama",
"History",
"Hockey",
"Holiday",
"Holiday music",
"Holiday music special",
"Holiday special",
"Holiday-children",
"Holiday-children special",
"Home improvement",
"Horror",
"Horse",
"Horse racing",
"House/garden",
"How-to",
"Hunting",
"Hurling",
"Hydroplane racing",
"Indoor soccer",
"Interview",
"Intl basketball",
"Intl hockey",
"Intl soccer",
"Judo",
"Kayaking",
"Lacrosse",
"Law",
"Luge",
"Marathon",
"Martial arts",
"Medical",
"Military",
"Miniseries",
"Mixed martial arts",
"Modern pentathlon",
"Motorcycle",
"Motorcycle racing",
"Motorsports",
"Mountain biking",
"Music",
"Music special",
"Music talk",
"Musical",
"Musical comedy",
"Mystery",
"Nature",
"Netball",
"News",
"Newsmagazine",
"Nordic Combined",
"Olympics",
"Opera",
"Outdoors",
"Parade",
"Paranormal",
"Parenting",
"Pelota vasca",
"Performing arts",
"Playoff sports",
"Poker",
"Politics",
"Polo",
"Pool",
"Pro wrestling",
"Public affairs",
"Racquet",
"Reality",
"Religious",
"Ringuette",
"Rodeo",
"Roller derby",
"Romance",
"Romantic comedy",
"Rowing",
"Rugby",
"Rugby league",
"Rugby union",
"Running",
"Sailing",
"Science",
"Science fiction",
"Self improvement",
"Sepak takraw",
"Shinty",
"Shooting",
"Shopping",
"Sitcom",
"Skateboarding",
"Skating",
"Skeleton",
"Ski Jumping",
"Skiing",
"Snooker",
"Snowboarding",
"Snowmobile",
"Soap",
"Soap special",
"Soap talk",
"Soccer",
"Softball",
"Spanish",
"Special",
"Speed skating",
"Sports event",
"Sports non-event",
"Sports related",
"Sports talk",
"Squash",
"Standup",
"Sumo wrestling",
"Surfing",
"Suspense",
"Swimming",
"Synchronized swimming",
"Table tennis",
"Taekwondo",
"Talk",
"Technology",
"Teleroman",
"Tennis",
"Theater",
"Thriller",
"Track/field",
"Travel",
"Triathlon",
"Variety",
"Volleyball",
"War",
"Water polo",
"Water skiing",
"Watersports",
"Weather",
"Weightlifting",
"Western",
"Wrestling",
"Yacht racing"