[mythtv-users] Howto manually schedule for every workday

[Tomi Makinen]

Thanks for good solutions.. I will try those out.

- Tomi -

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Håkon Alstadheim
<hakon at alstadheim.priv.no>wrote:

> Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Kevin Kuphal <kkuphal at gmail.com
> > <mailto:kkuphal at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Tomi Makinen <makinen at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:makinen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Hey,
> >
> >         I would like to schedule childrens programs every workday,
> >         same time and same channel. The names differ alot.
> >         The first one might be the same everytime for now, but that
> >         might change. Is there way to do this, if not counting 5
> >         different recording schedules ?
> >         With powersearch fex?
> >
> >
> >     Powersearch is probably your best option.  Some SQL for day > X
> >     and < Y will probably suffice.  I'm not sure the exact syntax but
> >     it shouldn't be hard to figure out.
> >
> >
> > It should look like this:
> >
> >   DAYOFWEEK(program.starttime) > 1 AND DAYOFWEEK(program.starttime) < 7
> >
> > (DAYOFWEEK() returns a number from 1 to 7, where 1 is Sunday.)
> >
> > Obviously, you'd also want to have clauses for the actual start time
> > and the channel.
> >
> > Carl Fongheiser
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> There are several ways to do this. I used to have it set as a regular
> manual recording, record every day starting at 18:00 hours on the
> channel, duration 60 minutes. Make sure you set the first day as a
> sunday to make it record 7 days a week. Pick a monday as the first day
> if you want only weekdays.
>
> This will work, and you will get the same "name" for the recordings
> every time. This might  be a feature or a bug depending on your
> preferences. I have recently switched to a powersearch to get the
> different segments in separate recordings (seems dvb recordings spanning
> several programmes sometimes are difficult to play back).
>
>
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