Custom Show pages for sports?

[wayner]

Would it be possible to create custom pages for specifc show name(s) for sports? For example if ShowTitle in {NBA Basketball, MLB Baseball, NFL Football, NHL Hockey} then show a different TV show page that could pull out the artwork specific to Team1 and Team2, which I believe Sage already knows about as it can use teams for favorites.

Or maybe you could display artwork if Team1 IsNot Null, or something like that?

[EnterNoEscape]

SageTV knows about the teams, but it can only guess what the sport is. That information is not available at least from the Schedules Direct guide data. As far as I have seen, there are always two teams whenever teams are provided.

Edit: There's also a way that the API determines if it should give you the option to do team related things, so I would just use whatever that's using to determine if we want to do the composite you speak of.

[wayner]

But the sport comes from the show title which is static, except for playoffs. For basketball the ShowTitle is "NBA Basketball". That can change a bit when it comes to the playoffs. If you can pull fanart by team name then you may not even need to know the sport as we no longer have multiple New York Giants or St. Louis Cardinals. But doesn't SD have a genre/category - I can only access my V7 system now on the old EPG and for basketball it shows this:

NBA Basketball
Episode: Toronto Raptors at Minnesota Timberwolves
Favorite - First Runs OnlyFirst RunMonitor status is invalid.
Airing: Feb 8, 2017 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Duration: 2h 30m
Channel: 502-SN1HD
Category: Sports event/Basketball

[EnterNoEscape]

It could be somewhere in there, but that's not guaranteed by the provider, so I couldn't rely on it.

[wayner]

Ok, but what about the show title? I have always used this to create my favorites and it always works, with the exception of the playoffs where you can get Super Bowl LI, 2017 Stanley Cup Playoffs, 2017 NBA Finals, etc.

For Toronto Raptors Basketball I have favorites using a show title of NBA Basketball and a keyword of Raptors and this works for all of their games. For NHL Hockey that is the show title with person of Toronto Maple Leafs.

[wayner]

I added an issue for this in Github