[mythtv-users] schedule programs before they show in listings

[Donavan Stanley]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:45:25 -0700, Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com> wrote:
> Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> > Anyone know a way to have mythtv schedule a program even before it shows up
> > in the listings? Other than manually scheduling the date/time.
> 
> Actually, I do abuse Manual Schedule for this purpose often.
> Myth's manual allows you to type in any title(!) you'd like.
> Therefore, you can choose "Space Channel", set the title to
> "Star Trek", save, go to the priorities page and change the
> type to Channel record. You're now set to record "Star Trek"
> whenever it happens to appear on "Space Channel".
> 
> > Ie, you know that say the Space Channel here in Canada will be showing say
> > the oringal Star Trek series starting 6 months from now, you don't know what
> > date it will start, you just know it's in the future, so you enter star trek
> > and tell myth to record any star trek shows.

When .16 comes out you'll be able to do exactly that.