[mythtv-users] Some confusion on "record weekly" schedules...

[Alex Brekken]

Thanks guys, yes Brad you're right. I tried removing both weekly schedules, 
then added them both back but added the Friday schedule first. This 
corrected the problem. Now Friday's episode will record, and Monday's 
episode shows a "E" next to it, which is correct. (after Friday's episode 
has been recorded then I assume the Monday episode will show a "P" or "R", 
depending upon if I deleted the recording or not) 

The "Find and record one showing of this title each week" option would be 
OK, but on the off chance that both Friday's and Monday's schedule would 
play a diffferent episode, then I'd miss one. 

To answer some other questions from Bruce, the reason I didn't setup a 
"Record All" is because SciFi also plays the "old" BattleStar Gallactica 
shows which I don't want recorded. As such, I figured the record weekly 
route would be the way to go since it pinpoints a specific time-slot in 
which I know the new series is being shown. I have read the Myth docs on 
this topic, but when it discusses recording priorities it's within the 
context of conflicts, which is why I raised this question as there really 
was no conflict happening here. 

Thanks again,


On 9/9/05, Brad Benson <bbenso1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/8/05, Alex Brekken <brekkal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Now I fully understand that Myth should only record 1 of the 2 showings 
> > since they're the exact same episode, however I can't figure out why it's 
> > electing to record Monday's episode instead of Friday's since Friday is an 
> > earlier date. There's no other recording happening on Friday at the same 
> > time which would interfere. (I've got dual tuners, so that wouldn't matter 
> > anyway) What I would expect to see is that Myth would record Friday's 
> > episode, and skip Monday's with an indication on Monday's schedule of "P" 
> > for "previously recorded." 
> > 
> > Does this seem like a problem to anyone else, or am I just 
> > misunderstaning how the behavior is supposed to work? 
> > 
> 
> Yes, there's a fine point of Myth's scheduler that you're missing. When 
> attempting to determine which showing of an episode should be recorded, Myth 
> looks at many factors (tuner priority, priority for that specific recording 
> rule, channel priority, etc). I'm going to assume here that you've set the 
> same priority for both of your recording rules. Since the rest of the 
> details of those two rules are the same, then both the Friday and Monday 
> episodes would have the exact same priority. When Myth sees two showings 
> with the same priority, it prefers the one that matches the recording rule 
> that was added first. Since you set up the Monday recordings prior to 
> setting up the Friday recordings it's most likely choosing the Monday 
> recording because that rule was entered first. Incidentally, you might want 
> to remove one of those duplicate recording rules and set the other one to 
> "Find and record one showing of this title each week". That would allow Myth 
> to record one episode each week and still choose between the Friday and 
> Monday showings to avoid conflicts.
> 
>
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