SageMC Feature Requests

[briands]

Originally Posted by gveres

Ok, I have another one.

First, is there a way to say that I want to record a movie and have the scheduler pick the best airing of that movie? I have the TMN in canada and they air the movies many times during the month. I would like to say "record Iron Man whenever you can fit it in"

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This is similar to a request I made here . I also submitted it at that time to the Sage team to be implemented into the core (as I don't know if it is possible to execute in the STV).

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by briands

This is similar to a request I made here . I also submitted it at that time to the Sage team to be implemented into the core (as I don't know if it is possible to execute in the STV).

Doesn't Sage do this already? If there is a conflict in the primary airing time selected, I think it tries to find an alternate time to record if possible. I am almost certain I have seen this behavior on my system.

[briands]

Originally Posted by mikesm

Doesn't Sage do this already? If there is a conflict in the primary airing time selected, I think it tries to find an alternate time to record if possible. I am almost certain I have seen this behavior on my system.

I've not seen it... what I have seen is that it will throw a conflict that you have to manually resolve (manual recording is given priority). The conflict resolution options only include to cancel the manual recording, not to look for an alternate airing.

At least that is what I recall...

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by gveres

Ok, I have another one.

First, is there a way to say that I want to record a movie and have the scheduler pick the best airing of that movie? I have the TMN in canada and they air the movies many times during the month. I would like to say "record Iron Man whenever you can fit it in"

I can't seem to do that on SageMC. Based on Mike's suggestion of using Search to record movies, I find that I do the following:

select search
select title
type in the title
select the entry in the list to the right.

at this point it gives me a list of airings. I have to select one of those airings and then I can select record.

It seems that a 'Record as Favorite' button in the Program Info screen for a Movie is in order. That will allow SageTV to work its scheduling magic. It is too late to get this in for the next release, but I could probably whip up a patch to add it.

Another approach available in the next release is to find the movie however you want and then do an IMDB search from its Program Info screen (Or just do an IMDB search directly from the IMDB search entry screen). Once you have selected the correct movie from the IMDB search results, you can hit the Options key to bring up a popup menu that allows you to create a Title Favorite, Keyword Favorite, or Title + Lead Actor Favorite. With the new code in the next release to automatically convert existing recordings to Manual Recordings when a Favorite is canceled, this should be a viable option.

Aloha,
Mike

[ke6guj]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

It seems that a 'Record as Favorite' button in the Program Info screen for a Movie is in order. That will allow SageTV to work its scheduling magic. It is too late to get this in for the next release, but I could probably whip up a patch to add it.

I just hit the "favorites" button on my remote and it adds it in as a Favorite.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by ke6guj

I just hit the "favorites" button on my remote and it adds it in as a Favorite.

Well sure, if you want to do it the easy way....

[HelenWeathers]

I've been using SageMC for a few weeks now and only have one feature request.

When you are viewing recorded shows, I would love to see the "Sort By Date" option extended to "Sort By Date Ascending" and "Sort By Date Descending".

Currently when you go from "Sort By Date" to "Group" the shows with most current recordings are placed first, honoring the current "Sort By Date" listings. It would be nice to see the Ascending/Descending order we've chosen be maintained in the Group sort as well.

Loving SageMC by the way!!!

[Brent]

I need to update the list at the top of this thread with the changes of 6.3.8 and new requests as well - I'll add that to my to-do list but feel free to continue adding your requests to the thread. I'll get them all organized in the original post eventually.

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by HelenWeathers

I've been using SageMC for a few weeks now and only have one feature request.

When you are viewing recorded shows, I would love to see the "Sort By Date" option extended to "Sort By Date Ascending" and "Sort By Date Descending".

Currently when you go from "Sort By Date" to "Group" the shows with most current recordings are placed first, honoring the current "Sort By Date" listings. It would be nice to see the Ascending/Descending order we've chosen be maintained in the Group sort as well.

Loving SageMC by the way!!!

I think that if you bring up the options menu while the sort button is highlighted, that you can switch between ascending/descending.

Aloha,
Mike

[HelenWeathers]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I think that if you bring up the options menu while the sort button is highlighted, that you can switch between ascending/descending.Aloha, Mike

I thought that there might be a way but had not found it. I'll give it a try tonight. Thanks!!

[HelenWeathers]

It worked!! Of course I had to drag out my keyboard and use Ctrl-O to get the menu as my MS remote has no option button on it. I'm going now to try to find a way to define a button for options menu.

Thanks again.

EDIT: I got out my Sage Manual (Andy would be proud) and linked one of my unused remote buttons to the Options command. I am left to wonder what other Options I have been missing out on. I love SageTV and SageMC.

[brewston]

Originally Posted by HelenWeathers

It worked!! Of course I had to drag out my keyboard and use Ctrl-O to get the menu as my MS remote has no option button on it. I'm going now to try to find a way to define a button for options menu.

By MS remote did you mean an MCE remote ? If so, the yellow button brings up options

cheers

[HelenWeathers]

Originally Posted by brewston

By MS remote did you mean an MCE remote ? If so, the yellow button brings up options

Well, I have two MCE remotes. One is Microsoft branded and has no colored buttons. The unbranded remote does have 4 colored buttons so I'll give that one a try as well.

Thanks for the tip! I never paid attention to the difference until you brought it up.

[peternm22]

The default STV has had this for a little while now, and it would be cool if SageMC had it as well: multi channel favourites.

[Brent]

It's been a long while, but I've finally updated the top post in this thread for any missing requests as well as sorting out the completed ones from the "still-waiting" list. If I missed anything you think should be included let me know.

And Mike/Dirk or anyone else in the know - if you notice anything that just should be listed as a stock UI (STV) issue and not SageMC-specific or something that is already possible let me know that as well so I can correct the main post.

I added a few more feature requests of my own even though my number one request of all time is still:
"sort videos by date added or dvd release date" Man I wish that was easier to do.....

Here's a few new ones I added as requests:

• Update the SageMC-built-in comskip monitor to the most recent version
• Build in the various mini-guide add-ons to SageMC as options ootb.
• ew optional Photo View VMC-style. Show nothing on the screen except for a wall of photos (customizable by number of columns/rows of photos) and navigate the photos with your remote. Take that a step farther and add the ability to do a slideshow where that wall changes one or more photos at a time. So for example, you see 12 photos on the screen, after 5 seconds two random photos are replaced with two new ones, and then two other photos are replaced on-and-on.

[mp328]

Not sure how much work this would be, but how about an automated IMDB lookup when new media has been added to one of the directories.

i started using the IMDB batch tool from stuckless and does the trick for the 500+ movies in the library, but now all the new ones i add i gotta rerun the tool or do it individually for every new title added.

any chance to add stuckless new tool that works from within sage http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=287

even if this is not enabled by default so who wants to use it can enable it and who doesnt they can just leave it off,

[KJake]

There's been an update to DVDProfiler so the DVDPro2Sage.class needed an update. We're tracking changes here:

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?p=325431

[nyplayer]

Is it possible to be able to customize sub menus of My Menu independent of my Menu?

[Brent]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Is it possible to be able to customize sub menus of My Menu independent of my Menu?

Not sure I understand what you're saying. Could you explain further for me - sorry, I'm slow

[KJake]

In the default STV, when you need to browse for a file, if you traverse up all the way to the root of My computer basically, there is also a Network item listed where you can browse files under your workgroup and select the file you need. It would be nice to have all the browse dialogs updated to have this.