[mythtv-users] Custom recording syntax

[Phil Bridges]

On 9/26/06, Michael Lynch <lynchmv at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a custom recording to schedule any college football games with
> Alabama in the subtitle.  The custom rule is:
>
> program.title = "college football"
> and program.subtitle like "alabama at %"
> or program.subtitle like "% at alabama"
>
> This query finds the correct football games, but I just noticed that
> it also found a college volleyball game.  The volleyball game info is:
>
> title = "Women's College Volleyball"
> subtitle = "Arkansas at Alabama"
>
> It is apparent that the game was scheduled b/c of the subtitle.  My
> question is how should I go about using parenthesis to make sure
> program.title is matched and one of the program.subtitle strings are
> matched?  I have already deleted the custom schedule and recreated it
> with parenthesis around the whole rule like:
>
> (program.title = "college football"
> and program.subtitle like "alabama at %"
> or program.subtitle like "% at alabama")
>
> That didn't make any difference, the volleyball game still got
> scheduled.  Any ideas?

I haven't started to use this feature yet, but wouldn't you put the
parentheses around the ORd section?  i.e.,

program.title = "college football"
and (program.subtitle like "alabama at %"
or program.subtitle like "% at alabama")