More info added to help with series recordings and keywords

[Russell at IceTV]

Hi,

We've added a couple of new things to help with series recordings and keywords.

First, when you click a show to view its details, and it says, "This show is part of a series recording", the words "series recording" are now a link to that particular entry on the My Shows page.

And when you view a show that's part of a series recording but wasn't scheduled (with a grey icon), it now says why it wasn't scheduled for recording.  For example:

   This show is part of a series recording but is not scheduled to be recorded.
   (Show does not match requested start time.)

Other reasons that might be displayed include:

   (Show does not match requested quality setting.)
   (Show does not match requested network.)
   (Repeat showing but series set for first runs only.)
   (Recording show would exceed requested shows per day limit.)

Also, when you view a show that matches a Keyword Recording or Keyword Favourite, you'll now see which keywords matched that particular show.  For example:

   This show matched the Keyword Record: simpsons -treehouse

And the keywords are linked to that particular entry on the My Shows page.

Thanks,
Russell

[prl]

Hi, Russell, it sounds good. However, I'm not getting any more information in the hover boxes on my greyed-out recordings (ACT guide data). They just say "Series recording not scheduled to record". I have refreshed my Web page, and I see the new series recording links.

It would also be nice if clicking on the series recording links took you to an appropriate tag in the My Shows page. As it is, it always goes to the top of the My Shows page, even though it opens the appropriate entry for the recording. But perhaps that's not feasible.

What do you see for keyword recordings/favorites where more than one search matches? First matching search?

[Russell at IceTV]

Hi, Russell, it sounds good. However, I'm not getting any more information in the hover boxes on my greyed-out recordings (ACT guide data). They just say "Series recording not scheduled to record". I have refreshed my Web page, and I see the new series recording links.

You said hover box, but I think you meant the details page, after you click a show on the TV Guide page?  Give it another try today and see if they're showing up now.  You should see reasons listed for all your shows with grey icons.

It would also be nice if clicking on the series recording links took you to an appropriate tag in the My Shows page. As it is, it always goes to the top of the My Shows page, even though it opens the appropriate entry for the recording. But perhaps that's not feasible.

Good suggestion, I've added that and you should be seeing it work now.

What do you see for keyword recordings/favorites where more than one search matches? First matching search?

If more than one keyword matches a show, you'll see the first keyword you created.  So if you created one for "aaa" and then "bbb", and a show matched both of them, it'll list "aaa" since it was created before the keyword "bbb".  If you change or delete "aaa" so that it doesn't match anymore, you'll see "bbb" listed.

Thanks,
Russell

[prl]

Hi, Russell, it sounds good. However, I'm not getting any more information in the hover boxes on my greyed-out recordings (ACT guide data). They just say "Series recording not scheduled to record". I have refreshed my Web page, and I see the new series recording links.

You said hover box, but I think you meant the details page, after you click a show on the TV Guide page?  Give it another try today and see if they're showing up now.  You should see reasons listed for all your shows with grey icons.

It would also be nice if clicking on the series recording links took you to an appropriate tag in the My Shows page. As it is, it always goes to the top of the My Shows page, even though it opens the appropriate entry for the recording. But perhaps that's not feasible.

Good suggestion, I've added that and you should be seeing it work now.

What do you see for keyword recordings/favorites where more than one search matches? First matching search?

If more than one keyword matches a show, you'll see the first keyword you created.  ...

Thanks,
Russell

On the first one. I must have been thinking of the discussion about getting more information about greyed-out recordings; whatever the reason, I didn't read your post properly. The reason for not recording is showing in the details page. Probably was when I first posted.

Thanks for the second one; it makes the feature a lot easier to use.

Thanks for the info on the third one.

There seems to be a similar thing happening for greyed-out series recordings where there is more than one reason why they're not recording. I've changed my All Saints series recording to first runs only/high def only, and the daytime SD repeats show the failure on the first test, that they are repeats, and I've asked for first run, but they don't show the other cause of failure, that they're SD and I've asked for HD only. It it possible to show all the reasons why the series isn't recording for episode?

Thanks again,

[Russell at IceTV]

It it possible to show all the reasons why the series isn't recording for episode?

At the moment it's only setup to show one reason, because the scheduling engine stops checking after any one of them fails.  We would have to change it to check all the reasons, which would slow things down a bit.  It might be something we can add in the future though.

Russell