How to TiVo NFL Football games?
 

I am trying to set up a TiVo Wishlist to record all NFL football games
available on network television, but am unable to get it configured to
do so. What does everyone here do to get their Sunday games recorded?
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"Mark" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:23:59 -0400, "Hostile 17"
wrote:

I am trying to set up a TiVo Wishlist to record all NFL football games
available on network television, but am unable to get it configured to
do so. What does everyone here do to get their Sunday games recorded?

What is your guide data like? Is it "TEAM1 @ TEAM2" or "NFL FOOTBALL" ?

If it's the latter, that's easy. Just get a wishlist for it and autorecord
first run only. If it's the first, you're going to have to create a bunch of
wishlists for each team you want that are first run only.

The short answer is you can't use a Wishlist to autorecord ONLY NFL
football games.

The program guide title for a yet unspecified teams game is NFL Football.
I've never seen First Run listed in the football game descriptions. Since
the games are "events", some of the Wishlist features won't work as they
do with a "series".

With a Wishlist looking for Sports/Football and AT, all college, pro and
repeats of those games are listed. Unfortunately, the guide data doesn't
have College, Pro or NFL in game descriptions. I tried adding a keyword
of "live" to avoid repeats and saw no games at all with that Wishlist.

The best solution is to use Sports/Football with keyword AT. Make
this Wishlist non-recording, then look at the list several days before
the Sunday games and pick the games you want recorded.

"Jack Ak" wrote in message
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"Mark" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:23:59 -0400, "Hostile 17"

wrote:

I am trying to set up a TiVo Wishlist to record all NFL football games
available on network television, but am unable to get it configured to
do so. What does everyone here do to get their Sunday games recorded?

What is your guide data like? Is it "TEAM1 @ TEAM2" or "NFL FOOTBALL" ?

If it's the latter, that's easy. Just get a wishlist for it and
autorecord
first run only. If it's the first, you're going to have to create a
bunch of
wishlists for each team you want that are first run only.

The short answer is you can't use a Wishlist to autorecord ONLY NFL
football games.

The program guide title for a yet unspecified teams game is NFL Football.
I've never seen First Run listed in the football game descriptions. Since
the games are "events", some of the Wishlist features won't work as they
do with a "series".

With a Wishlist looking for Sports/Football and AT, all college, pro and
repeats of those games are listed. Unfortunately, the guide data doesn't
have College, Pro or NFL in game descriptions. I tried adding a keyword
of "live" to avoid repeats and saw no games at all with that Wishlist.

The best solution is to use Sports/Football with keyword AT. Make
this Wishlist non-recording, then look at the list several days before
the Sunday games and pick the games you want recorded.

Just going from memory, my HDVR2 uses the @ for AT (as in Texans @ Saints).

How the hell do you enter @ ??

"Bob Violence" wrote in message
...

Just going from memory, my HDVR2 uses the @ for AT (as in Texans @
Saints).

How the hell do you enter @ ??


I just discovered that although the ampersand is used in the titles, the
descriptions do use "at". So I entered that and got the best results I
guess I can expect under the circumstances.

I got a few classic game shows in there, along with all the college crap
I'm not interested in. You merely have to scroll through to Sunday and
Monday night games and select what you will. It's a shame that TiVo
doesn't do a better job of differentiating. You'd think with the
popularity of NFL football, they'd be working to make wishlists and
Season Passes easier to manage.

Guess all the money is in pimping Sunday Ticket...
--
John

"When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my
Grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car."

- from Deep Thoughts
by Jack Handey

To reply via email, remove 'bogus' from my address.

I just discovered that although the ampersand is used in the titles, the
descriptions do use "at". So I entered that and got the best results I
guess I can expect under the circumstances.

Try using the Title search (assuming NFL here) along the lines of:
NFL AT
and then a sub-category of 'Event'

You should then have it paired down to all NFL games. You can add your team
name to the title (it may be city name or 'team' name, but you'll have to
look at the listings for an example of what is typically used.

You *may* be able to add 'Live' to it or change it to a keyword wishlish and
add 'Live' (this may or may not help). Selecting 'Only First Runs' from the
recording options screen will probably also help.

Good luck,

Brad

"Hostile 17" wrote in message ...
"Bob Violence" wrote in message
...

Just going from memory, my HDVR2 uses the @ for AT (as in Texans @
Saints).

How the hell do you enter @ ??


I just discovered that although the ampersand is used in the titles, the
descriptions do use "at". So I entered that and got the best results I
guess I can expect under the circumstances.

I got a few classic game shows in there, along with all the college crap
I'm not interested in. You merely have to scroll through to Sunday and
Monday night games and select what you will. It's a shame that TiVo
doesn't do a better job of differentiating. You'd think with the
popularity of NFL football, they'd be working to make wishlists and
Season Passes easier to manage.

Guess all the money is in pimping Sunday Ticket...
--
John

"When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my
Grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car."

- from Deep Thoughts
by Jack Handey

To reply via email, remove 'bogus' from my address.

Have you tried doing repeating manual recordings? That's what I use.
The games are at the same times and channels each week. Once in
awhile there isn't a double header on one channel so I get an extra
recording I just delete. Just make sure you pad the recordings cause
they always go over.

Bill

"Brad Bishop" wrote in message ...
I just discovered that although the ampersand is used in the titles, the
descriptions do use "at". So I entered that and got the best results I
guess I can expect under the circumstances.

Try using the Title search (assuming NFL here) along the lines of:
NFL AT
and then a sub-category of 'Event'

You should then have it paired down to all NFL games. You can add your team
name to the title (it may be city name or 'team' name, but you'll have to
look at the listings for an example of what is typically used.

You *may* be able to add 'Live' to it or change it to a keyword wishlish and
add 'Live' (this may or may not help). Selecting 'Only First Runs' from the
recording options screen will probably also help.

Good luck,


Brad, you really should try all those suggestions before making them in this
newsgroup. It's not nice to get a bunch of folks to waste their time trying things
that won't work.

For one, NFL doesn't appear in the description or title of a scheduled game.
Sports/Football & "Live" lists only "NFL Live" broadcasts which are not games.

Sports/Football & AT works but also includes college games and repeats of
those games.

Brad, you really should try all those suggestions before making them in
this
newsgroup. It's not nice to get a bunch of folks to waste their time
trying things
that won't work.

Sorry about that. I was trying to remember the points brought up a while
back from TiVoCommunity (http://www.tivocommunity.com/) on how to do it. I
thought I had them correct (or fairly close). I didn't mean to waste
anyone's time.

I do remember that what I said was 'basically' correct. Use the 'Event'
sub-category, dump in the 'AT' into the title and then you'd have to tweak
it from there.

Checkout TiVoCommunity Forums and do a search there and you'll probably find
your answer.

Good luck,

Brad

"Bill Lumberg" wrote in message
om...

Have you tried doing repeating manual recordings? That's what I use.
The games are at the same times and channels each week. Once in
awhile there isn't a double header on one channel so I get an extra
recording I just delete. Just make sure you pad the recordings cause
they always go over.

Bill

Thanks, Bill. That's a good idea. Although I have the dual-tuner, I
haven't run the second cable yet (trying to find someone who can do it
cheaply). Otherwise, I could just program two different manual blocks to
go from 1 pm to like, 7:30 pm.
--
John

"When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my
Grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car."

- from Deep Thoughts
by Jack Handey

To reply via email, remove 'bogus' from my address.