How can you record a show in the future - beyond the epguide range? ie the Olympics

paxomega · **27th July 2008, 08:15 PM**

Hi folks,
I'm going away on a vacation a couple of days and need to record the Olympics for my wife (who is an Olympics obsessive).

How can I achieve this given:

Olympics starts in 12 days
I leave in 3 days
epguide only goes 7days ahead

A scheduled time based recording would work but it takes effect immediately rather than starting in 12 days time.

I could add several scheduled recordings - morning session, afternoon session and evening session and have them occur everyday for the channel that corresponds to the olympics (7) but that's going to record a lot of stuff that I don't need and throw away a large number of my old recordings needlessly.

thanks
pax

dgaust · **27th July 2008, 08:35 PM**

You can add manual recordings by going to the recorded TV page, navigate up to Add Recording then select Custom recording with channel & time.

bodogbodog · **27th July 2008, 10:26 PM**

Not sure which guide you are using but I know I could do this in ICE TV - maybe it's possible in other guides as well....

Just set up a search for Olympic in Media Centre and it will record any programmes with Olympic in the title (you've got to assume they will have Olympic in the title) - then it will pick them up as the guide updates

Hope you've got lots of HDD installed as there's gonig to be a lot of Olympics coverage....

logifuse · **28th July 2008, 10:28 AM**

Yeah, a manual series recording based on keyword is the way to go. Don't forget that the Olympics will be on 7/7HD & SBS/SBSHD - so as the previous responders said, make sure you have plenty of hard drive space (& plenty of tuners as there will be overlaps galore).

Justin

paxomega · **28th July 2008, 10:07 PM**

Thanks for the suggestions ... I was looking for a regex style selection ... and this appears to be the closest that I can get. I was hoping to be able to restrict it to a certain channel but that doesn't seem to be possible.

I do have 4 tuners and 2 TB+ storage... but HD & SD 7 and anything else on the other channels SBS, news etc will likely record too much even using MCEBuddy (which I doubt could keep up transcoding more than 24hrs a day of recordings).

Unfortunatly .... I think my original suggestion will use the least hdd space ... unless I did something drastic like removing the SD channels from my MCE (guide) or use a second MCE with only channel 7 setup... hmmm ... an interesting option.

thanks
pax

pistnbroke · **29th July 2008, 12:48 AM**

You could use Webscheduler, it has multiple methods of auto adding. or the Ice TV guide will allow you to use your mobile to set recordings ( depending on Phone type ) also their interactive works ok as well..

paxomega · **29th July 2008, 07:31 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by pistnbroke

You could use Webscheduler, it has multiple methods of auto adding. or the Ice TV guide will allow you to use your mobile to set recordings ( depending on Phone type ) also their interactive works ok as well..

Thanks for the suggestion ... I actually moved off from DVB-WS when I got my HDTV and moved into the land of MCE :-) The Regex search is the only thing that I miss .... and the stability :-)

ciao
pax