[mythtv-users] NFL Games

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Monkey Pet <monkeypet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Nasa <nasa01 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've had this happen the last two weeks...
>>>
>>> NFL playoff games aren't showing up in myth with the correct times and/or
>>> descriptions.  For example, today's games - one started at 1 and the other
>>> at 4:30 - myth had the NFC game starting in the AFC time spot and vis-versa
>>> (they are broadcast by different networks, abc vs fox).  The Station
>>> listings are correct and I checked the broadcasters listing and the time
>>> frames show up there correctly.  Looking at schedule direct - I couldn't see
>>> any problems, but I couldn't find what times they were advertising the games
>>> for...  Anyone have any idea what's going wrong?  Thanks,
>>
>>
>> I think my issue was that the games were listed one way like "NFL
>> Football: NFC Divisional Playoff: Teams TBA", then later on in the week, it
>> updated the team names in the title, so the "record this program once" rule
>> didn't match.
>>
>
>
> I use a power rule to grab all the 49ers games. It looks like this:
>
> program.title LIKE '%NFL%'
> AND program.subtitle LIKE '%49ers%'
> AND program.category = 'Sports event'
>
> If you just want to grab all the NFL playoff games, you could change the
> second clause to: program.subtitle LIKE '%playoff%'. That wouldn't record
> the Super Bowl, though (but mine does, when the 49ers are in it :-) ).
>
> Karl
>
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I have a very similar rule, except I've added something like

originalairdate > '2010'   (I can look up exactly what I have when I
get home if anyone wants it)

Because while I love my 49ers, I don't need to keep reliving the
Montana glory days. (well, I've not needed that the last few years
anyway)

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos