[mythtv-users] scheduling problem: want first showing not later one

Kevin Ross kevin at familyross.net
Sun Jan 17 22:32:15 UTC 2010


Michael Rice wrote:
> Today there was a sports event on and mythtv saw that it is on again
> (at 1:00am) and decided
> to record it then instead.  Usually that's good but not so much for
> sports since I normally want
> to watch it before I learn the score.
>
> I am currently using 0.22.  I looked at my settings and "Reschedule
> Higher Priorities" is not
> checked.  I thought this kind of behavior would be caused if this was
> checked but it wasn't.
> As far as I can tell lower priority recordings were made instead as
> the sports event is one
> of my highest priorities.
>
> So what I'd really like to do is have my sports events record on the
> first showing and not later
> and have all other rules record later if needed.  If that isn't
> possible how do I get the scheduler
> to pick the first (or highest priority) recording in general?
>
> Any suggestions?

Isn't there a recording rule that says something like "record new 
episodes first showing only"?


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