Is there anyway to do a "contains" or "Like" in a smart library collection? I'm trying to create a collection with all those hallmark mysteries shows in it for my wife.. There always seems to be another one popping up in my library (she records them). Anyway, I thought I could create a library collection for anything with "mysteries" in the title and create a virtual channel off of it. I haven't figured out how to do it, I think I must me missing something or it isn't capable. Any help is appreciated.
TIA.
Did you try using Channel Number as a smart rule?
I didn't see Channel number on the dropdown or on the criteria list in the documentation. I'll give it a shot. I believe that will grab the (seems like) 500 Christmas movies as well unless I combine it with a genre. Thanks.
No Dice on the smart rule using channel number. I tried channelnumber, channel number, channel-id, channel-number. None worked in the advanced mode editor. Currently using a custom label but would be nice if it was hands off.
Thanks
It should be in the editor. If not, update to the pre-release to get the latest. I thought it was added ages ago though.
It's channel=6012 in the advanced editor.
I'm on the latest prerelease (windows 2022.03.11.0248). My channel is 6091 and that query returns nothing. See attached pics. I have hit the run query on the advanced editor.
Those are episodes of a tv show, not movies.
You can’t create collections of episode recordings.
Try the same thing directly in a Virtual Channel.
I think I may have confused the issue when I said 500 Christmas movies. These are shows with seasons and episodes. When I create a Library Collection, I have to choose Show collection or Movie Collection. Almost all my collections are show collections or episodes of shows. The one I'm trying to create is a show collection and it will not return the episodes querying on channel. I'll look into the virtual channel. I read somewhere a long time ago that it had to be in a collection for the virtual channel to automatically update, that's why I always do them in collections. Is there any truth to that?
Creating to query on the virtual channel itself works exactly how I hoped it would. I had no idea the smart rule editor on the collections had so many less options than the other one.
Thanks for you quick replies, if the VC stays up to date it should work fine as we don't usually access the collections through the enhanced library.
This is false.
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