[mythtv-users] Various MythWeb nits and gripes---can I fix these somehow?

[Adam Bodnar]

On 2/17/06, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu <f-myth-users at media.mit.edu> wrote:
> And what the outlines/dotted-lines/etc mean (also in scheduled-recordings)
> has to be reversed-engineered from the full listing; -that's- an
> application where coloring the boxes might make things easier to read,
> but only if the boxes aren't already colored by genre, and only if the
> colors are arranged in some sensible fashion.  (Given a list of "types
> of outlines" I could take a swing at what -I- think is "sensible" and
> see if anyone else agrees... :)

When you hover over the title of a show you will get a popup and there
is a Notes: section. The text inside this corresponds to the type of
outline.

> [And it seems that every time I turn off the Duplicates and Deactivated
> checkboxes on that page, they magically turn themselves back on the
> next time I visit the page from elsewhere.  Does this mean that
> something's still broken in my session stuff, or is this supposed
> to happen?  If the latter, how do I default them to OFF?  The page
> is -much- slower to load with them on, and I rarely want them on,
> and -furthermore- I can't even turn them both off at once---I have
> to click on one, wait and wait and wait for the page to reload, then
> turn off the other, and wait some more.  And then if I leave the page
> and come back, they're both on again!]

This is cause a session is tied to cookies that is stored in your
browser. Once you turn them off in one place, they will stay off in
that place, less you are not storing or clearing cookies.

> Also---the scheduled-recordings page doesn't seem to actually include
> recordings that are -currently being recorded-, but only things that
> haven't started yet.  This almost caused me to reboot the backend in
> the middle of a recording 'cause I thought it was idle, until I checked
> with mythfrontend (the "backend status" would also have told me).  This
> seems like a dangerous omission.  (It also once caused me to think that
> something I'd schedule got missed, until I realized that it was still
> being recorded by that the scheduled-recordings page wasn't showing it.)

Well, since technically those shows are not scheduled anymore, but
actually recording. They wouldn't show up on the scheduled recordings
page. :)