[mythtv] New Schedules Direct feature: "is this Sporting Event over"?

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:00 AM Jim <lists at morton.hrcoxmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/14/2015 9:52 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>
> On 12/13/15 3:21 PM, Robert Kulagowski wrote:
>
> Described at
>
>
> https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201#downloading-in-progress-for-sporting-events
>
> Discussion at
>
> http://forums.schedulesdirect.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=2756
>
>
> Very cool. Hopefully, this can be adopted by Myth such that it includes a
> flag to "delay start if preceding program goes over time", which will
> actually allow me to record entire episodes of "60 Minutes"
>
>
> From the link -
>
> *a sporting event which runs late will not cause a schedule re-generation,
> because we won't know if the broadcaster is going to shift the starting
> time for subsequent programs, or just "joined in progress".*
>
> I don't know how Myth could know that either.
>
>
> --
> Jim
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You could make it configurable per channel and have the user set it up as
to what the channel usually does. Give it a sensible default of "Don't
shift" and it should be fine.
-- 
Thomas Mashos
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