Manual Recording Feature

Channels DVR Server Feature Requests
#33

Bump, again. These threads are going to keep coming up because people don't understand why it's not part of the UI. There are plenty of sports events that get rained out and rescheduled for the next day, for example. There's no easy way to schedule these except a manual recording or to hack something up with the incorrect guide data. And then maybe you have to skip through 30 minutes of junk that you don't want to get the recording that you do.

If y'all don't want to add it to the clients, just put a simple DVR admin webpage out there. Something like what OliveTin does.

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#34

Hate to say it, but there are only 1926 views of the topic and only 8 votes (not that they even count).
Seems a very small percentage of users want this feature. (Or maybe they just don't understand the need for it until they need it?)

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#35

This feature has been requested many times over the years. The Devs are clearly not interested in adding it.

For those who care, numerous add-ons and work-arounds have been posted. So, this is clearly not an urgent item.

#36

Yep, but a simple admin web UI would be a trivial task for them. Just put it in the DVR section where Schedule and Passes are now. There's no need to have to add on other stuff for this.

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#37

Hey, here's a perfect example! Golf channel has moved up the broadcast of the second round of the Tour Championship to 10 a.m. tomorrow to avoid potential thunderstorms, will that be reflected in the guide? Maybe, maybe not.

But a manual recording would take care of this. And I can't easily hack around some extended recording of what Golf channel is showing in the guide now because it's some ladies golf tournament that doesn't correlate.

Man, this would be so much easier if I could just do a quick schedule with the web UI...

I'm going to keep bumping this with more examples in the future! Lol.

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#38

Your dream has now come true! I started the project last year and then took a break for more than a year because life happened but, finally, here it is!

Truly a plug and play solution. Just install the extension, refresh the schedule page and you should see the new "Manual Recording" button on the web UI.

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#39

thank you for your efforts on this.
To be clear this would be for web interface only, and not via the apps.....

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#40

Correct, this is an extension that works in the web browser on a desktop only.

To be more precise, it has been tested in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and the Brave browser.
Basically, any web browser that supports Chrome extensions.

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#41

clicked on the link, went to the page, please tell this newbie what to do next,
do i need to sign in
what to i click to add this extension?

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#42

Another thing too is that it will only work in a browser on a desktop computer.

Even though you may use Chrome on your Android phone, extensions are not supported on a mobile device. Just to clarify.

If you go to the Chrome Web Store page for it:
Channels DVR Extras - Chrome Web Store

You should see a "Get" button. In my case, it says "Remove" because I have already installed it.

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Looking for Help: How to Record by Channel + Time Block (Not Show-Based) in Channels DVR
#43

manual recording successfully done

thank you!!!!!!!!

#44

Thanks!

#45

I want to give a shout out here because yesterday the Tigers/Mariners game was delayed and eventually moved off of FS1. I was able to use manual recordings on both FS2 as well as MLB (the guide data would never update quickly enough)

THANK YOU

#46

I saw that too but just did it the quick and dirty way - recorded the supposed soccer game on FS2 in progress and extended it by 3 hours.

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#47

cant extent that far on the app (limited to 120 minutes),

so if i am going to run to the PC, might as well use the manual, and also retitle it to my liking

#48

No need to use a pc, phone works great for web admin. But I get your point, I could have set up a manual recording. For me it was just as easy to watch and record it from the guide then mod the padding from the web page. I was doing it while it was in progress in other words. For future manual recordings like rainout reschedules or bad guide data I use the new feature.

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#49

I see what you did there, going to the web interface via Phone.....

#50

However, keep in mind that when viewing the web interface on your phone, you won't have access to this manual feature. You can't install the extension on a mobile device.

#51

manual = PC only
extend way far out = learned i can do this on my phone as well

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#52

I also made something which you can host yourself: GitHub - giejay/channels-dvr-manager: Channels DVR Manager - Manual scheduling and more

Features:

  • Create manual recordings with custom start/end times, multiple channels, and repeat options

  • Search and select channels with logos and filtering

  • View, filter, and manage all scheduled recordings in a data table

  • Edit or delete individual or multiple scheduled recordings

  • Dark/light mode toggle with automatic detection

  • Proxy support for secure API access to your Channels DVR server

  • Docker-ready for easy deployment