How do I schedule recordings for a particular channel?

[mister_bimbo]

Hi All,

I've had reason to want to schedule recordings for a particular time/channel, and I've found that this isn't possible (or at least I've not worked out how to do it). The option for "Network" means that the recording can be scheduled on all of the channels of the network and not one specific channel.

A couple of examples:
1. I want to record the nightly "ABC News" on ABC1 at 7:00pm. If I select "ABC News", I get the option of "Network" (and not channel). While I can force the time to be 7:00pm (i.e. using the "this time" option), I can't force IceTV to select ABC1. The results of this is that IceTV can/does direct the "ABC News" to be recorded on the ABC News channel. I've got around this by manually scheduling the recording directly on the BW.

2. I want to record the Commonwealth Games, but only recordings on a single channel and not the entire network. I wanted to record all the broadcast shows (i.e. morning, afternoon, early evening, late evening) on the one channel, so I choose the "Record All" option. Unfortunately this catches everything on both Ten and ONE ... and so creates duplicates between Ten and ONE - not a problem in itself, but the duplicate recording can/does lead to conflicts if there is something else on one of the other channels that I've selected to record at the same time.

Any ideas? Perhaps there is something obvious that I'm overlooking..?

Cheers,
David

[prl]

There isn't any way to force a recording onto a specific service using IceTV. Your alternatives are:

• Don't use IceTV, set a regular recording on the Beyonwiz, as you already have for the ABC News. That will work well for "set in stone" programming like the ABC evening news.
• If you want to use IceTV, try being inventive with "Only HD" and "Only SD" settings on the recording. That should let you force ABC1 for the news (by setting Only SD) and One HD for the Games (by setting Only HD). I've never tried it, so I'm not certain it will work.

[Gully]

As Peter suggests the Only SD/HD switch will do the trick as ABC News is their HD service so only SD will ;imit it to ABC1/2/3.

[j s]

There isn't any way to force a recording onto a specific service using IceTV. Your alternatives are:

• Don't use IceTV, set a regular recording on the Beyonwiz, as you already have for the ABC News. That will work well for "set in stone" programming like the ABC evening news.
• If you want to use IceTV, try being inventive with "Only HD" and "Only SD" settings on the recording. That should let you force ABC1 for the news (by setting Only SD) and One HD for the Games (by setting Only HD). I've never tried it, so I'm not certain it will work.

"HD only" would not be the best choice for the CG as some sessions are on TEN only (when ONE has commitments to other sports). "HD preferred" would be better. You might still get some duplicates as the TEN and ONE start/end times are not always the same, Remove any duplicates via "My Week".

[download]

Can you disable a channel from either the ICETV (SEND TO LCN AS).

But in your case a manual option is probably much better. For the NEWS you can also set the AUTO DELETE option to 1 day (which ICE can't do).

Regards

Peter Gillespie

NB ICE need to remove the Copy SD channels to HD option from their website.

[prl]

Can you disable a channel from either the ICETV (SEND TO LCN AS).
....

But that would affect all recordings and EPG for that service. Probably a bit drastic for the OP's problem.

[mister_bimbo]

Hi Peter,

There isn't any way to force a recording onto a specific service using IceTV. Your alternatives are:

• Don't use IceTV, set a regular recording on the Beyonwiz, as you already have for the ABC News. That will work well for "set in stone" programming like the ABC evening news.
• If you want to use IceTV, try being inventive with "Only HD" and "Only SD" settings on the recording. That should let you force ABC1 for the news (by setting Only SD) and One HD for the Games (by setting Only HD). I've never tried it, so I'm not certain it will work.

Your second suggestion for ABC News has worked a treat For a moment, I thought that it was going to play up (again) as when I initially scheduled it, IceTV indicated that the recording was to be on the ABC News channel. A brief wait and then a click of "My Week" had the right recording displayed.

For the CG recordings, I'll just manually purge the remaining duplicates (there are not too many of them). I think it'd be good if IceTV enhanced the service so that:
1. You can specify the channel (and not just the network)
2. You can configure Autodelete settings on the timers. IceTV already knows what devices you have configured, so I don't see why this can't be built into their functionality - the logic being "if Device = Beyonwiz, then display Autodelete options". I'm sure that other PVR's/media players IceTV support have particular functionality that could be harnessed the same way.

Cheers,
David

[prl]

Hi, David. I'm glad you've got the problem at least mostly sorted.

You're probably better off posting suggestions for improvements in IceTV functionality on the IceTV forum. I'm not saying there's a problem posting them here; it's just more likely that they'll be noticed by the right people if you post there

[mister_bimbo]

Hi Peter,

Hi, David. I'm glad you've got the problem at least mostly sorted.

You're probably better off posting suggestions for improvements in IceTV functionality on the IceTV forum. I'm not saying there's a problem posting them here; it's just more likely that they'll be noticed by the right people if you post there

I had that thought when writing out the reply ... but a deadly combination of inertia and laziness set in ... and I kept going I'll scrape together the motivation over the next week and join the IceTV forum and make a contribution there

Thanks for always helping out!

Cheers,
David