Is it possible to exclude one or more channels from a season pass? I see options on the Advanced Season Pass page to add a “Channel ==” condition, but “Channel !=” isn’t listed.
Devs, if this is not currently possible, please consider this a formal feature request 
Can you elaborate on what channel you’re trying to prevent recording from and why?
I currently have a Season Pass setup to record all the CONCACAF Gold Cup matches (see screenshot). It works as expected and indeed records all the matches. The problem is that it also records the Spanish language broadcasts on both Unimas and Univision, so I get three recordings for each match, two of which I do not want. I know I could disable these channels in the tuner config, but that's undesirable as I do occasionally wish to watch programming on these channels.
It's not a big problem as I have plenty of disk space, but it would be nice to be able to exclude these two channels from the pass.
I wonder if it would be possible to use a tag to only record English language broadcasts? Is there a list somewhere of what tags are available? Or what tags are associated with a recording?
Screenshot 2017-07-14 18.23.20.png
In the interim you could add a limitor for channel # (or 2 advanced passes - channel #1 and channel #2 - if there are 2 English speaking stations being broadcast)
Thanks for the suggestion, @DebbieFL. I have considered this, but I would have to add at least four different passes, and that may or may not cover it…so far the matches have been on at least four different channels (Fox, FS1, FS2, FXX) and I don’t know if there will be any other channels that could be used for future matches. It would be more efficient to be able to exclude the two channels on a single pass, instead of having to explicitly add four or more different passes for the different channels, and risk missing a recording if it’s on a different channel.
Good additional info. If I had the similar situation, I would rather have the option of excluding Channel #3 (and Channel #4, etc.), rather than a tag limitor. I think your exclude suggestion would be useful in more situations.
Thanks for the example.
I will fix the guide database to stop combining different language renditions of the same show into one, so you can setup a series pass for only the one you want.
Awesome, thanks!
Can you snap a pic of your current Schedule tab, showing the duplicate upcoming games? Is each game being recorded twice (one english, one spanish), or more than two times?
Here's an example of the matches scheduled for tomorrow (Sat). I've manually skipped the ones I do not want...
Screenshot 2017-07-14 21.34.12.png
Thanks.
Here’s an experimental build with the guide data change:
curl -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:8089/updater/check/2017.07.15.0217
After updating, click the refresh circle on Settings tab of web UI (next to HDHR guide data) and it will refresh next 5-7 days of data.
Afterwards you should see Schedule no longer showing duplicate spanish language recordings for the next few games. Please let me know how it works out.
Cool. I’ll test it out. I’ve got some recordings going right now so it will be a bit before it installs.
FYI, this is running on FreeNAS, and apparently FreeNAS jails don’t have curl installed by default. I had to manually run “pkg install curl” before I could run the command.
Initial results look good. I no longer have any Spanish language airings showing on the Schedule page. I’ll continue to monitor. Thanks again for this.
I see this was added to the latest version:
DVR 2017.07.17.0243
I’m now seeing many instances where new episodes are not being marked for recording when they should be. A good deal of my recordings for the week have been cancelled, and the log has entries “Deleting job with expired serial”. I’m not sure if this is coincidence or a result of the update. Log is below.
[details=Log]2017/07/17 05:06:55 [SYS] Downloading new version v2017.07.17.0243
2017/07/17 05:07:03 [SYS] Update downloaded and verified successfully.
2017/07/17 05:07:03 [SYS] Shutting down for upgrade from v2017.07.13.0055 to v2017.07.17.0243
2017/07/17 05:07:03 [SYS] Bonjour service stopped.
2017/07/17 05:07:03 [DVR] Recording engine stopped.
2017/07/17 05:07:04 [SYS] Starting Channels DVR v2017.07.17.0243 (darwin-x86_64) in /Users/jhecker/channels-dvr/data
2017/07/17 05:07:05 [HDR] Found 3 devices
2017/07/17 05:07:06 [SYS] Started HTTP Server
2017/07/17 05:07:07 [DVR] Recording engine started in /Volumes/Internal/Channels
2017/07/17 05:07:07 [SYS] Removing old update 2017.07.08.2337
2017/07/17 05:07:07 [DVR] Waiting 14h51m52.824448251s until next job 1500317940-42 Royal Murder Mysteries
2017/07/17 05:07:07 [NAT] Successfully mapped port 8089 using natpmp
2017/07/17 05:07:07 [SYS] Bonjour service registered with stoli412.com
2017/07/17 05:07:10 [SYS] Created database snapshot: backup-20170717.050707
2017/07/17 05:07:10 [SYS] Removing old backup backup-20170622.025521
2017/07/17 05:07:17 [IDX] Pruned 617 expired airings from GBR-0001305-DEFAULT in 454.635369ms.
2017/07/17 06:07:07 [NAT] Successfully mapped port 8089 using natpmp
2017/07/17 07:02:22 [TNR] Opened connection to 12313364 for ch1
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1500319740-2 Panorama (EP012592870400)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1500490740-47 The Sweet Makers (EP027328040001)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1500494340-45 Joanna Lumley’s India (EP027246720003)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1500497940-44 The Windsors (EP024155100010)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1500580740-43 Who Do You Think You Are? (EP012807380136)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1500746340-40 Blind Date (EP027138330006)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1501099140-2 Panorama (EP012592870402)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1501102740-44 The Windsors (EP024155100011)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1501121340-22 First Dates (EP017507530071)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Deleting job with expired serial: 1501185540-43 Who Do You Think You Are? (EP012807380137)
2017/07/17 07:05:20 [DVR] Waiting 12h53m39.044904993s until next job 1500317940-42 Royal Murder Mysteries[/details]
Possible I broke something…
If you search do airing show up?
If I go into the pass under ‘Find airings’, episodes don’t show up. If I go to the Search tab, I get 2 listings for the same programme: one that is marked as my series pass but is empty or only has a handful of airings, and another that shows the airings as expected.
What are the urls when you click on each result?
Can you right click to “copy link address” on the duplicate show that’s not marked as recording?
This is the URL for the one that’s marked as a Series Pass but not showing airings:
http://localhost:8089/admin/search/273696?q=Panorama&seriesName=Panorama
And this is the URL for the one that’s not marked as a Series Pass but is showing the airings:
http://localhost:8089/admin/search/273696-en-GB?q=Panorama&seriesName=Panorama
Perfect thanks.