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The 'Automatic Recorder' is used to create rules that will trigger
automatic recording of events. You can use this to record you favorite
TV show(s), record all movies on a specific channel, etc.
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It's also possible to create a recording based on a query in the
EPG. For more information about that, please read the EPG chapter.
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<img src="docresources/autorec.png">
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 The tags are listed / edited  in a grid. 

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  <li>To edit a cell, double click on it. After a cell is changed it
      will flags one of its corner to red to indicated that it has
      been changed. To commit these changes back to Tvheadend press
      the 'Save changes' button. In order to change a Checkbox cell
      you only have to click once in it.

  <li>To add a new entry, press the 'Add entry' button. The new
      (empty) entry will be created on the server but will not be in
      its enabled state.  You can now change all the cells to the
      desired values, check the 'enable' box and then press 'Save
      changes' to activate the new entry.

  <li>To delete one or more entries, select the lines (by clicking
      once on them), and press the 'Delete selected' button. A popup
      will ask you to confirm your request.
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The columns have the following functions:


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  <dt>Enabled
  <dd>
  If checked the rule is active. If unchecked the rule will not trig
  any new recording sessions.

  <dt>Title
  <dd>
  Only matches events with the given title. The filter uses case
  insensitive regular expression.

  <dt>Channel
  <dd>
  Only match events from the given channel.

  <dt>Series Link
  <dd>
  Checkbox indicates that a series link (using EPG provided info) is being
  used, rather than a simple title match. The title field is still populated,
  for clarity, with the title of the event used to create the series link.

  <dt>Channel tag
  <dd>
  Only match events from the channels which are included in the given tag.
  Tags are used for grouping channels and is configured by the administrator.

  <dt>Genre
  <dd>
  Only match events belonging to the given content group.

  <dt>Duration
  <dd>
  Only match events that fall within the specified duration range.

  <dt>Weekdays
  <dd>
  Only record events if they occur on one of these days. By default all days
  are marked as active.

  <dt>Starting around
  <dd>
  Only record events if they are scheduled +-15 minutes from this given time.

  <dt>Priority
  <dd>
  The priority to give any recordings scheduled by this auto recording rule.

  <dt>DVR configuration
  <dd>
  Select the DVR configuration profile to be used for scheduled recordings.

  <dt>Created by
  <dd>
  Free text field, but will be copied to the recording session.

  <dt>Comment
  <dd>
  Free text field, not used for anything else.
 </dl>

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