[mythtv] Recording(?) group default

Geoffrey Hausheer mythtv0368 at phracturedblue.com
Tue Jul 20 19:08:08 EDT 2004


On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:54:13 -0700, Jeff wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> [Originally sent this to the users list - got no reply - figured that maybe it
> was the wrong audience...]
> 
> Have created a second frontend for the kids to use and would like to have their
> new recordings segregated into the recording group I set up for them.  I know
> that it can be changed in the advanced recordings screen, but is there a way to
> set a specific default recording group for their frontend?  I've got them using
> the simple record (non-advanced) screen and want to avoid having them struggle
> through all the options.
> 
> I looked through the "settings" table in the database and saw some possible
> candidates but am not sure if they were correct.
> 
I don't think so.  The recording-group stuff lets you specify a given
set of rules on a per backend granularity.  I don't think it maes
sence  to set it on a per frontend granularity (I assume you want to
change it to use 'LiveTV' or 'High-Quality' or 'Low-Quality' instead
of 'Default'?).  In this case, what  you want  is to change the
'Default' profile for a given frontend (profile groups are used to
configure settings for a given card (or class of cards))  They aren't
attached to a given recording, but instead are looked up when the
recording begins.

So what you want is to add some code that will associate a profile
with a frontend when the recordinng is defined.  I'm not precisely
sure where that code would go (havn't looked at this stuff for a
while), but I think that finding a convenient way to configure it
might be a bit challenging.

.Geoff


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