[mythtv-users] problems with manual recording

[Chris Menard]

The "record-every-week" feature has not been implemented for manual recordings.
 My understanding is that a manual recording is performed by inserting a
'dummy' entry into the guide, then its scheduled as a 'regular' recording.

This 'dummy' entry will not exist in future weeks.

You may want to look into the recording's "Duplicate Check Method"  Schedule
the show to record weekly (I'm at work looking at MythWeb right now).  Select
'Recording Schedules'  then your show.

You may be able to change 'Duplicate Check Method' and 'Check For Duplicates
In' to suit your needs.

--- Lance Spaulding <lsjunk1 at cableone.net> wrote:

> I'm running mythtv 0.16 (from the gentoo ebuild if that matters) and 
> using a Hauppauge 350 for the video capture. For the most part it works 
> great but I can't seem to get the manual recording part to work 
> correctly. I want to setup a manual recording from 4pm - 6pm twice a 
> week on a local channel which broadcasts college classes. I can't simply 
> record by show name as everything on the channel is named the same and 
> often 3 hour blocks are listed as an individual show even though they 
> are really multiple classes. Anyway, I'm having the following two problems:
> 
> 1) I setup the manual recording to occur every week in the same timeslot 
> but it only ever shows up in the "upcoming recordings" once. It's like 
> the "record-every-week" feature doesn't work for manual recordings.
> 
> 2) The shows I want to record come on from 4pm - 6pm. I also have Myth 
> setup to record any episode of Simpsons it finds. Simpsons comes on 
> every day at 5:30 so the two conflict. No matter what I try, it always 
> chooses to record Simpons instead of the manual recording. I've tried 
> increasing the priority of the manual recording as well as increasing 
> the priority of the channel itself. Neither helps.
> 
> Does anyone know how to get around either or both of these issues? If I 
> upgrade to the current CVS version, will either be fixed? Also, is there 
> a way to enable debug or otherwise find out why it chooses to record one 
> program over another?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Lance
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