EPG Auto-Add System
The EPG Auto-Add system allows you to set up a list of automatically created schedules that match programs start and stop times from the EPG. These matches are based on keyword, time and day of week, they also contain a number of setting the created schedule items will inherit when created; these settings include start and end time buffer, capture type and post capture task.

The easiest way to start using the Auto-Add system is to right-click on an EPG item, and choose "Create Auto-Add Item". This should be adequate for most cases, however you can edit the created Auto-Add item to further fine-tune it.

The Auto-Add scan can be run automatically immediately after new EPG data is imported or manually if required.

When the Auto-Add action is called the following process takes place:

All current not-running EPG Auto-Add schedule items are removed form the system.
The system starts looking for matches using the following search order

  1. For each Auto-Add item in the list starting from the top of the list
  2. Then for each Mapped Channel (none mapped channels are ignored) in the order that they appear on the channel map page
  3. Then for each EPG item in the EPG for that mapped channel in start time order
The above means that the priority that Auto-Add items are matched and added are as follows When a match is detected DV Scheduler keeps a list of already matched EPG items for this Auto-Add run, once an EPG item has been matched it can not be matched again, so if the EPG item is not in the already matched list it goes on to the next step. If this EPG item has already been match then this EPG item is skipped.

Exclusion:
EPG items can also be marked for exclusion in Auto-Add Scan; these items will not be included.

User modified schedules:
A schedule can be of type EPG. This indicates that the schedule item has been added by Auto-Add. As such, this item may be modified or deleted in the next Auto-Add Scan, unless it is edited by the user (e.g. duration changed).

Adding a schedule from an EPG item and setting its type to EPG affects Auto-Add Scan; adding a schedule from scratch and setting its type to EPG does not affect Auto-Add Scan.

Auto-Add Scan does not add a new schedule if it overlaps (partial or otherwise) an existing modified schedule with type EPG that was created from an EPG item of same start time and duration. This allows the user to increase or decrease the duration of an Auto-Add schedule without a duplicate being created in the next Auto-Add Scan.

Overlap:
When a schedule is added and overlap is turned off DV Scheduler looks at the number of cards you have set up and if the total depth of overlapped schedules is less than or equal to the number of cards you have then the schedule is added (multiple channels in the same frequency multiplex is counted as one). If there are to many overlaps then the item is marked as a conflict and will show up in the conflict list.

If you have overlap set to on "Allow Overlap" in System Config then any number of schedules can overlap regardless of how many cards you have.

Once all this is done a match is found for an EPG item, conflicts detected or not detected then a new schedule is added to the list and the EPG item is added to the already matched list.