Punctuation in Search on Hopper

[Bob Violence]

I want to do a search on the Hopper for "NFL:" (without quotes) so I can then create an ongoing recording for all NFL football games (as they are all titled NFL: awayteam vs hometeam).

I can't figure out how to enter a colon after NFL.

With the remote, I've tried repeatedly pressing the number 1, however a colon is not in the list of punctuation that comes up. I have also tried plugging in a USB keyboard into the Hopper, however that gets me nowhere as the device isn't recognized.

How do you enter a colon in the search criteria?

 

[Scherrman]

I'm not sure using a colon is actually necessary to accomplish your search.

 

[Hall]

He's trying to even further filter the results he'll get. Yes, it will surely work without the semicolon, but he'll likely have more results to sift through.

 

[Bob Violence]

I'm not sure using a colon is actually necessary to accomplish your search.

Without the colon, it will search for (and ultimately record) everything that has "NFL" in it, which is a lot. I only want the games, thus the need for the colon.

 

[ChadT41]

Go to one of the games, and press search. Then only delete the teams portion of it. See if that works.

 

[Bob Violence]

Excellent idea. I will try that when I get home, and report back.

 

[Hall]

I'm not at home but presuming the Dish remote uses fairly standard "T9", isn't it one of the bottom-row buttons, either the 0, # or *, that you press repeatedly and it cycles through punctuation ?

 

[VegasVoomer]

Go to one of the games, and press search. Then only delete the teams portion of it. See if that works.

That was a great idea and I just tried it out of curiosity. It doesn't work. The cursor lands on the game in the description area and when you move it over to the keyboard area the entire search term (that actually had the : in it) vanishes.

 

[tallfence]

Try putting the cursor on 'delete' then press green 'Search History' button to get the game back into the search box.

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[ChadT41]

The * button is delete letter by letter. You do not even have to highlight the text. Just hit search, then ****** how ever many times you need to

 

[lucky86]

Press 1 repeatedly to cycle through special characters. A semi colon isn't needed and isn't in the options.

I think the best option us to hit search when you have the show in the guide.

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[Hall]

There's no specific "show" he's searching for though. He wants ALL of the NFL games that are broadcast and he's determined that they all appear in the guide with the text string "NFL: (team A vs team B)".

 

[ChadT41]

For a seek and record timer

 

[VegasVoomer]

Even with the colon ( : ) in the search area it doesn't work. Through search history I managed to get it there and delete everything but the NFL: before it all disappeared. It still found all shows that start with NFL. I guess since a colon is not a usable character it ignores it during the search.

 

[Bob Violence]

Even with the colon ( : ) in the search area it doesn't work. Through search history I managed to get it there and delete everything but the NFL: before it all disappeared. It still found all shows that start with NFL. I guess since a colon is not a usable character it ignores it during the search.

Yep, that is exactly what I found as well. Through the methods previously mentioned in this thread, I was able to get "NFL:" in the search box, and even set up a recording for it, however the Dish software seems to ignore the colon completely, and just uses "NFL", which in turn records a lot of stuff, not just the games.

Looks like I'm back to just manually recording every game.

 

[Hall]

I tried it at DishOnline to see if it used or ignored the semicolon:

Looks good, huh ?

Sadly, it returns the exact same results as this search:

(35) results from both searches and (for my location) only 4-5 are the actual games.

 

[tallfence]

Try putting a space after NFL:

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[ChadT41]

I tested my own advice, including the space. Nogo.

 

[Bobby]

I tried that yesterday, same result...

 

[Hall]

Try putting a space after NFL:

If you're referring to searching at DishOnline, it doesn't make a difference there either.