Set a manual recording of a channel for specific date, time and duration

Does it only show the next airing (i.e. in your case the next Friday, tomorrow)?
Try using Wednesday.

Appears like it may have been cancelled, I can find the first 4 episodes I recorded available for on-demand and streaming, but nothing after those. Strange, since Discovery already bought the 8 episode series and it’s not a repeating series.

Checked the Discovery Channel website and it does appear that episode 5 (the one Channels DVR missed) aired, but no info on upcoming episodes.

Twitter feeds, including contestants on the show are saying the same thing.

I figured out why the Advanced Pass with Channel==CH# and Time CONTAINS Wednesday 10pm didn't appear to be working. Looks like when you set an Advanced Pass using Channel==CH#, it only retrieves the next 100 airings on that channel so in my case the 100th airing was Wednesday 7pm. A few hours later the 100th airing would have been Wednesday 10pm and it would have appeared in the Advanced Pass.

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Found out that Discovery decided to stop airing the series episodes after #4 and make the future episodes available exclusively on their Discovery GO website and APP’s according to one of the contestants.
https://twitter.com/herizondetails/status/1037532457812283393

One can only guess their reason for that :sunglasses:

I’ve fixed the latest DVR pre-release so it returns up to 500 upcoming matches, which should allow you to schedule and see episodes for atleast the next week with custom Time and other matchers.

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Thanks, hopefully that helps my other request here https://community.getchannels.com/t/what-shows-are-coming-up-this-week-on-ch/8887 for a channel specific view of what’s on this week for this channel#
i.e.
EPG grid view has horizontal time and vertical channels.
Click a channel on the far left column and then be able to drill down into vertical time columns for that selected channel.

So.... Is there a way to schedule a manual recording? Channel and duration of 8 hours is what I’m looking for.

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Manual recordings should be an option. There are numerous "hacks" (does anyone under 50 still use the word hack?) that could come in the future that would make this necessary, not to mention a few current situations.

Yeah, it's a normal word in my profession :stuck_out_tongue: and in dev work.

Good to know ... good to know. Maybe tomorrow we could die-hard hack the gold depository at fort knox!

I like not being in jail thanks :joy:

Did Bruce Willis ever end up in jail?

Possible Workaround (not hack)

This is a feature I'd like to see too especially now that TVE is a reality and has many channels that don't actually supply guide data. It would be handy to be able to specify a start time and a duration for a recording just based on channel.

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I would still like to see this implemented in Channels DVR.

Name the recording by whatever the guide says is on at the start time, or better yet, just name it
ManualRecording_CH# YYYY-MM-DD-Time.mpg (i.e. ManualRecording_750 2019-11-01-2030.mpg).

The ONLY reason I still keep my old TiVo Bolt (downgraded to TE3) running is in case my HDHR Prime bites the dust (and who knows if/when the PRIME 6 will be released). TheTiVo guide info is a joke as it always was with ROVI, but at least the TiVo allows you to set a manual recording.

Technically the DVR engine is capable of manual recordings. But we don't have a UI for it, because recordings and schedules without guide data and images are not well presented in the app.

If you really want to setup manual recordings, you can check the request made when you click a guide entry on the web UI and hit record and use that as a template with your own channel/time/duration and fake guide data. For the airing data, you can change Raw to null, and set Source to "manual" with whatever details you want for the Title/Image/Summary

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Can you explain this in more detail? For example, if one wanted to record channel 3.1 from 11:30pm until 12:00pm how would you manually do it?

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Not sure if I should post here or start a new topic.

I've searched this forum re: manual record(ings) & 'advanced passes' & I couldn't find a specific answer for what we are trying to do.

We have a # of different 'Series Passes' that we'd like to record just a fraction of the show (on a recurring basis).
Here's an example, there's a local/community-access channel that airs a news update Mon.-Fri. for 3-5min. but there program info lists it as a 30min. program.
Also we like to record our preferred local news @ 10pm but it airs for an hour & rarely is there anything worth seeing after the first 10min. but they do have a short (3-5min.) segment that airs weeknights toward the end of the broadcast that we'd like record.

So, is there a way to accomplish these use cases?
And what would be the best &/or easiest way to set these up?

Please forgive me if this has been answered already.
Would appreciate if U could post a link where I can find instructions or a step-by-step guide re: how to do this.

Thanx in advance :slightly_smiling_face:

I was about to tell you to just simply modify the recording buffers at the beginning and the end of the show, but unfortunately the buffers don't swing that way.

Yep, no 'negative' padding.

You could do like tmm1 said and fake out Channels DVR by capturing its network traffic, intercepting its request and saving the .json data to a file as a template and modifying it, then using curl to create a one off recording using that file as the json data to post to it, or not.

I'd rather not as I'm already jumping through other hoops to workaround other things...

P.S. You have to consider I'm not a 'normal' Channels user. I just pay monthly for Channels Plus and have purchased their Channel app for iOS, but mainly use Channels Plus for recording, sometimes use the web UI for viewing things I won't keep, rarely use the iOS app and mostly offload recordings after removing adverts to archive them.