[mythtv] Improving manual recordings

[Scott Theisen]

On 9/26/22 21:55, David Engel wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 06:20:13PM -0500, Steve Erlenborn wrote:
>> On 9/24/22 3:55PM, Scott Theisen wrote:
>> I worry about a possible name collision in the Record Rules. For one
>> show, I have an Automatic Record rule set up for my OTA tuner, and a
>> Manual Record Rule set up for my Cable tuner.
>>
>>     Big Sky
>>     Big Sky (Manual Record)
>>
>> If you eliminate "(Manual Record)", those separate record rules will be
>> harder to
>> distinguish. It would still be functional but it would be less clear to the
>> user.
> I don't think this should be a problem.  Manual rules create
> artificial programs with manualid = <rule-recordid>.  Manual rules
> only match programs with their own manualid and non-manual rules only
> match programs where manualid = 0.
>
> David

His point, I think, is that if we went with my first suggestion both 
recording rules would be labeled only as "Big Sky" without anything to 
differentiate them in mythfrontend -> Manage Recordings -> Recording Rules.

This is not an issue for my use case, which is why I didn't think of 
that.  Trimming " (Manual Record)" after the fact is acceptable to me 
and supports this mixed use case of manual and automatic rules with 
otherwise the same title, by allowing the *user* to still easily 
identify which kind of rule it is without requiring further changes.

Scott
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