Intellgent Record feature

[sleight42]

I'm hugely impressed with it's intelligent record feature. My TiVo frequently records complete crap. Sage seems to actually locate shows that I might like--and may otherwise miss! Thumbs up!

Just excited enough that I wanted to put this compliment out there hoping that the authors may see it. Positive feedback is always nice to receive, after all.

[Bob]

I used to think that the intelligent record feature was a waste. .. thinking that SageTV (and Tivo) was supposed to just record only what you requested. I would get mad because my HD would begin filling up with shows I wouldn't specify. Now I understand that it's supposed to act that way based on your watching/recording habits. Looking back, most of the recorded shows were geared towards the genre I was interested in.

[Opus4]

When I first installed SageTV, I didn't have any interest in IR -- I wanted to recorded ONLY the shows I specifically said to record. Then, I decided to check it out during a rerun interval. At first I "put up" with it for a week or so out of curiosity. Now, I refuse to turn it off and count it as a great feature.

I like to leave some shows to IR, since I want to have some of them always available, but I don't want it to try recording them _all_. A favorite for the show would try to catch them all (OK, you can set a timeslot now in mlbdude's STV) and cause conflicts to arise, while IR is happy to fit them in when there is room in the schedule.

I still get shows I have no interest in, but I go through the schedule & mark them as Don't Like.

- Andy

[MacGyvr]

Just remember, "don't like" only applies to episodes, not to entire shows. It will continue to record the show.

[Opus4]

Not if you "Don't Like" enough episodes.

But, yes, even that isn't perfect... I just cannot get it to stop adding General Hospital and One Life to Live every once in a while.

Also, check out this property:

aggressive_negative_profiling - if enabled, Intelligent Recording will try harder to understand what the user doesn't like

I've disliked too many shows for that setting to work for me, but it might work for you.

- Andy