[mythtv-users] Anybody have any alerts set up on failed recordings?

[Matt Mossholder]

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Andrew Leech <coronasensei at gmail.com> wrote:

> That script looks great Matt, I've wondered about stuff like this in the
> past but never done anything about it.
> One question, when it schedules the program to allow re-record, will that
> trigger the backend to try to restart the recording immediately?
>
> I do occasionally get failed recording starting on my DVB-T cards, and
> they generally just need a immediate restart to get them going.
>
> Come to think of it, I've had a few other instances lately where
> recordings just finish early (as in half way through their scheduled time),
> so I could modify the script to check for that too and try to restart
> recording.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>


In my case, no it wouldn't restart the recordings as soon as they fail, as
the failures I was testing for keep the broken recording going until the
scheduled end time. The only evidence that the recording failed was the
file size. I haven't been able to test other failure scenarios, but I
assume that the scheduler would look for the next chance to record the
entire program, rather than trying to record something already in progress.

I have heard of other people having failures that result in other small
file sizes (hundreds of bytes), and this could certainly be adapted to
check for those issues.

     --Matt
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