The online profile feature is still quite experimental. By time the syncronization is intended to be completely automatic, but so far uploading and downloading of profiles is a manual operation.

Get started

First of all you need to register yourself with a username and a password. Your profile is attached to these credentials. Open the Preferences dialog and find the Profile Settings tab. Enter a desired username and a password. These credentials are used to download your profile on other computers later on. If you choose a username that already exist, you will be notified.

In use

To save and upload your profile press Ctrl+Shift+U. This will upload your settings to the online server. To download and load your profile on another computer, configure the profile system with your credentials as described above, and then press Ctrl+Shift+D.

At the time this is a manual process, so be carefull not to overwrite your profile with an empty one when configuring TVA on an new computer, i.e. uploading a “blank” one instead og downloading the previously saved one.

Since this currently is an experimental feature, please report any bugs or anomalies you may encounter.

Showview codes are back, but for a selected set of channels only and occasionally for a limited selection of programs only. The selection of channels to include showview codes for is system limited at this time, but we are working on better solutions with this.

And also, some of the available showview codes are “best-fits”. That means that you may end up recording more than the program you’re interested in. Never the less, the complete program in question will be recorded. This may also cause multiple consecutive programs to get the same code. This is not a bug, but a known issue with the current ShowView code system.

And again, please report invalid codes or other bugs you may encounter…

Defining an Automatic Search actualy consists of three phrases; defining search terms, sdetting search options and deciding what to do with matching programs. First of all open the Preferences dialog and find the Automatic searches tab. Check the box to enable automatic searches altogether. Click Add… (or Edit…) to define an automatic search.

Defining search terms

The search term naturally defines which text to look for in the programs. Depending on options you set later on different fields can be searched and case sensitivity changed. But for now lets concentrate on the terms.

antonsen

Simple phrase: The above will match all programs where the phrase occur

eckbo eia gjertsen klm hærland nærum antonsen

Multiple phrases: The above will match all programs where any of the phrases occur

"Bruce Willis" "Nicolas Cage" "John Travolta" "Pierce Brosnan"

Multiple words as one phrase: The above will match all programs where any of the names occur. To group several words into one phrase, enclose them in quotes.

"norsk humor" -eckbo

Negation: The above will match all programs were the first phrase occur. Matching programs where the phrase preceeded by a minus-sign occur will be excluded. Multiple negation terms is allowed.

film "Bruce Willis" "Nicolas Cage" -"Hugh Grant" -drama

Complex combinations: Using these rules you may mix and match to create complex selections.

Note: In the current version it is not possible to do AND searches. Multiple phrases, either normal or negated, will be OR-ed together. One matching term out of many will include the program and one matching negating term wil exclude it.

Search options explained

Okay, onto the options. The options available limits programs to include in the search, decides what fields to look in and so on. Most of these a pretty self explanatory. Use the time boxes to limit searcher to specific times of the day. Limit to specific channels by selecting one or more (use Ctrl) in the channel list.

Check the boxes to decide what fields you want to include in the search. To enable case sensitive searches check the box for this on the right. You can also disable the search term functionality described above by checking the box for Use Exact Phrase. Only programs that match the search term exactly as written for one of the selected search fields will hit.

Note: Use Exact phrase may be combined with Case sensitive search.

Handling matches

Now you’ve written search terms and set options for your search. Its time to decide what to do with them. Basically all matches will be shown in the autosearch tree, below the search it belongs to. To see the autosearch tree use Ctrl-T to toggle between the complete channel view and the autosearch view in the left pane.

You may also show the autosearch tree below the channel tree. To do this, find the Other visual settings tab in the Preferences dialog and check the box Show automatic search result below channels. To hide autosearch entries without hit, check Hide if empty.

You may enable alerts and automatic actions for those alerts on the matches too. Simply check Auto-set alerts for hits and then Auto-enable custom actions for hits. You may change the default custom action for hits as well. This will override the one set for the channel the program belongs to. Stay tuned for a closer explanation of Custom Actions, and enjoy the Automatic Searches!