Hello.
While it is possible to search for sport events, it is not possible to record specific teams. I wish there was a feature that sorted the program listing by team, and I could record only a specific team.
For example:
Chicago Bears
Green Bay Packers
For NFL games, isn’t it just as easy to go to sports/ALL and click on the ICON marked NFL?
NFL (all teams/games) works. What doesn’t work is setting up some sort of “rule” to just record NFL for a particular team.
That’s a different feature. And I doubt that the actual team name is a separate metadata field versus part of a description field. So that kind of feature versus lots of other features might be best described as “coming coming coming soon”.
My Tivo could handle these types of recordings. Just curious. I still like my Tablo, even if it is not sport friendly.
I don’t think tablo intended to replicate every feature that TiVo, DVR+,plex, channels, etc has exactly as they implemented them.
I was about to request this feature too. With NFL season starting now, im only interested in recording my home teams game. Right now all we can do is record the entire “NFL” league category. All we need is a sort of word filter for the title. the titles seem pretty consistent, for example tonights game is “Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City Chiefs”. If you could just set a custom filter for “Baltimore Ravens” it would be perfect.
This is nice for some things like recording the PGA event every week without needing to manually manage it, but for team based sports, I dont really care about recording the other 5-6 games that air which are not my home teams games. So we are stuck manually checking the scheduled recordings each week and setting “dont record” on the games we dont care about. This was one of the nice features of Youtube TV, in that i could specify to record only my team. Its too bad their prices went from $25/mo to $75/mo since it began.
You don’t have to do anything with all the other games. Just record the ones for your team. It takes seconds to do, and you only need to do it 9 times a regular season.
What happens if you search for a team every now and then and record just those games? Doesn’t seem like that would be too hard to do …
you run the risk of forgetting and missing a recording any random week or if you are on vacation and out of the house for awhile you cant update it. Better to have it set to record all and just remove when I remember. But still would be great to be able to filter that down more.
I imagine this is an even bigger issue for MLB or NBA fans since games are multiple times a week/ every day. Thats a lot of manual managing.
I’m not sure what market you are in but the local and L.A. MLB teams are blacked out from OTA So we are lucky to get 2 games every 3 weeks. NBA games - not yet - but L.A. played games are blacked out from local market…
So many excuses for why this can’t be done or isn’t necessary. Come on, this is a no-brainer that should have been included since day one. Cable TV has had this forever, and that’s the competition.
I have had the Tablo for 10 years and somehow have managed to record my team each week every season with no problems.
TabloTV and CableTV… apples and oranges, sir. You likely pay more per month for cable than you have for your entire Tablo setup… it’s basically free.