[mythtv-users] "not listed" in schedule

[Marco Nelissen]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 04/17/2009 12:34 PM, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>
>  On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Dan Wilga wrote:
>>
>>
>>> At 7:26 PM -0700 4/14/09, Marco Nelissen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I did, though strangely it was already recording reruns on other days,
>>>> so
>>>> there must have been another rule that was already doing this, that for
>>>> some
>>>> reason didn't record the Monday 9pm showing.
>>>>
>>> Personally, I find the best way to get Myth to not record old episodes
>>> (like ones that are in syndication) is to use "record at any time" but
>>> set
>>> the option to "only record new episodes". That way, if new episodes of
>>> the
>>> program are shown on a different night than normal, they do get recorded.
>>>
>>>
>> Right, but my point was that I already had a "record at any time" rule,
>> but
>> it failed to record a showing, apparently because there was also a "record
>> in this timeslot" rule for the same show, and the latter rule failed with
>> "not listed".
>>
>
> Yes, there is an order*** in which the rules are applied and once a rule
> matches, /it/ will handle the episode.  So, since your timeslot recording
> rule was applied first (as timeslot rules are applied earlier than any time
> rules to allow you to record all episodes at "Low Quality", for example, but
> record the episode in a specific timeslot at "High Quality"), it prevented
> the "any time" rule from recording it.


But, the timeslot rule didn't actually 'match', since the show didn't appear
in that specific timeslot ("not listed"). Therefore, it seems logical that
mythtv should continue to try to match the other rules.
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