Guide search question

[piranesi]

Is there a way to search for a word like 'Halloween' in order to get results that have 'Halloween' in the show description and not just the title?

I swear I was able to do it last year and get a list of Halloween episodes of old shows but this year I only seem to get shows with the word in the title.

 

[Hall]

"Seek and find" will search descriptions

 

[dare2be]

Yep, and it's all I ever use. (ViP version: Dish Pass)

 

[piranesi]

Tried "seek and record" for a few days and it was kind of a mess. Since I was looking for old episodes of Halloween shows, I set it for "new and reruns" to find "Halloween" in the info.

But that meant that it set a timer for every single "Dish Halloween" commercial. Hundreds and hundreds of them that I have to manually skip over and over.

Did the regular search feature used to search the guide info?

 

[Hall]

As you found out, seek and record isn't perfect. It catches everything that matches.

 

[dare2be]

It could be better if you could exclude/include certain channels, or put in exclusion match criteria as well.

 

[Hall]

A "benefit" of seek-and-record is that it searches everything and everywhere. Downside is that seek-and-record searches everything and everywhere.

Problem with including or excluding channels is you could almost defeat the purpose of this tool.

 

[Hall]

Is there a way to search for a word like 'Halloween' in order to get results that have 'Halloween' in the show description and not just the title?

I swear I was able to do it last year and get a list of Halloween episodes of old shows but this year I only seem to get shows with the word in the title.

I don't think the search function on the Hopper has changed. Did you come from a 622/722? On those, I thought you had options with the search tool, allowing you to search titles, descriptions, both, etc.

 

[odbrv]

On the VIP series the search results were sorted by time on. On the Hopper the results are sorted A-Z . I use to use search to find a movie to watch right now. With the Hopper search it is less convenient than the VIP . The A-Z results are not suited to my purpose. I have to look at the info of each result to find the time a movie will be on. A tedious exercise at best. Please Dish add search by time or A-Z as one of the filter options.

 

[dare2be]

Problem with including or excluding channels is you could almost defeat the purpose of this tool.

Right. Let's keep options to a minimum and dumb it down for everyone. That's the current operating system trend nowadays.

I use Dish Pass almost exclusively, and my expert opinion is that it could use more flexibility.

 

[piranesi]

I don't think the search function on the Hopper has changed. Did you come from a 622/722? On those, I thought you had options with the search tool, allowing you to search titles, descriptions, both, etc.

I had a hopper last year too. i may be mis-remembering how I got there, but I did something that allowed me to scroll through shows that had "Halloween" in the info and record the ones I wanted and I ended up recording Halloween episodes of a lot of old sitcoms. It was a nice seasonal stash!