AutoTimer is a key feature of VDRAdmin-AM. An AutoTimer consists of one or more search terms and some other settings, that are looked for regularly in the Electronic Program Guide (EPG). On match AutoTimer adds a timer in VDR automatically for that broadcast. That\'s very comfortable for irregularly broadcasted series or movies you don\'t want to miss.

Case doesn\'t matter, "X-Files" matches anything "x-files" will match. You can set multiple search items by separating them with spaces. Only broadcasts will match if they contain all items.
You\'d better only use letters and numbers for search items, as the EPG often miss colons, brackets and other characters.
Experts can also use regular expressions, but you have to get needed information from the VDRAdmin-AM sources (undocumented feature).

You can exclude broadcasts so that they don\'t get recorded even if they would match an AutoTimer. Therefore you have to enter that titles into the file vdradmind.bl, one event a line. This file must be located in your VDRAdmin-AM\'s configuration folder. If this string is found either in the EPG\'s title or in title~subtitle, this event will not be programmed by AutoTimer. So you can disable complete episodes (for example when using "Enterprise" as Blacklist-string) or only one episode (when using "Enterprise~Azati Prime" as Blacklist-string).') %?>

0...99, defining the priority of this timer and of recordings created by this timer. 0 represents the lowest value, 99 the highest. The priority is used to decide which timer shall be started in case there are two or more timers with the exact same start time. The first timer in the list with the highest priority will be used.

This value is also stored with the recording and is later used to decide which recording to remove from disk in order to free space for a new recording. If the disk runs full and a new recording needs more space, an existing recording with the lowest priority (and which has exceeded its guaranteed lifetime) will be removed.

If all available DVB cards are currently occupied, a timer with a higher priority will interrupt the timer with the lowest priority in order to start recording.') %?>

guaranteed lifetime (in days) of a recording created by this timer. 0 means that this recording may be automatically deleted at any time by a new recording with higher priority. 99 means that this recording will never be automatically deleted. Any number in the range 1...98 means that this recording may not be automatically deleted in favour of a new recording, until the given number of days since the start time of the recording has passed by.') %?>

VDRAdmin-AM will append the matching broadcast\'s title and subtitle (if the "Episode" checkbox is marked) to the directory given here.

You can also use the following keywords that are replaced in the final file name by the values supplied by for example tvm2vdr:

• %Title% - will become the title of the event.
• %Subtitle% - will become the subtitle of the event.
• %Director% - will become the director of the event.
• %Date% - will become the date of the recording.
• %Category% - will become the category of the event (Spielfilm/Serie/...).
• %Genre% - will become the genre of the event (Drama/Krimi/..).
• %Year% - will become the year of production.
• %Country% - will become the country of production.
• %Originaltitle% - will become the original title of the event.
• %FSK% - will become the FSK from the event.
• %Episode% - will become the episode\'s title of the event.
• %Rating% - will become the rating of the event from the EPG provider.

Note:

If you use the above keywords it\'s in your own responsibility to supply the complete file name for the recordings! VDRAdmin-AM will not append anything to the resulting string.') %?>