[mythtv-users] Scheduler Not Resolving Conflict

[Derek Battams]

Quoting Bruce Markey <bjm at lvcm.com>:

> Derek Battams wrote:
>> The scheduler has marked Letterman in conflict for tonight, even though
>> it could resolve the conflict by choosing a later showing of Colbert.
>> If I add a manual override and force the later showing of Colbert to
>> record then the conflict resolves itself.  Why doesn't the scheduler
>> fix the conflict itself?  Judging from what I see, the scheduler should
>> have recorded the 2am Colbert on Tuner 2 to allow Letterman to record
>> at 11:35pm.
>
> You are using a version from before Oct 5th 2005. This is probably
> fixed in http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/7391 though the
> description doesn't specify this obscure case.
>
> For yucks, try temporarily raising the channel priority for
> 286 by 1 in TV Settings->Recording Priorities->Channel Priorities.
> This should change the 03:35 and 05:00 showings' total priority to 8.

Increasing 286's priority by 1 did not change the schedule.  Increasing 
it by 2 resolved the conflict (scheduler chose to record the 2am Jon 
Stewart and the 2:30am Colbert on ch. 286 and that resolved the 
Letterman conflict).

  - Derek