[mythtv-users] Number of Recordings to keep...

[Jason Gauthier]

On 16.12.2012 23:57, Jason Gauthier wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>   I enabled "Number of Recordings to Keep", along with "record new and expire old". I set it to two recordings.
> I then manually scheduled, through cron, a recording every hour.  The title stays the same, but the subtitle is different.
> I delete the old schedule when I create a new one, as to not clutter up my recording schedules.
>
> So, in effect, I have a new recording every hour.  I set "number of recordings to keep" to 2.  I currently have 4.
>
> My questions are:  How is this information gathered to determine how many recordings there are?
> Since I create a new schedule every hour, perhaps this method will not work?

>Your example is for keeping 2 recordings of that one recording rule.
>But if I understand correctly you only ever create one recording per rule, then delete the rule and create a new one, thus never reaching the point where something gets >deleted.

And that makes sense.  Can I create a custom rule that records hourly?