[mythtv-users] Scheduler crazymaking

David Engel david at istwok.net
Fri Apr 19 23:02:41 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 05:53:06PM -0400, David Hampton wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 16:25 -0500, David Engel wrote:
> > My guess is you've got something buggered in your capturecard,
> > cardinput or channel tables.  In such cases, the easiest solution is
> > usually to just clear them all out, re-add your cards and inputs and
> > re-run mythfilldatabase to repopulate the channels.  If you really
> > want to dig deeper,
> 
> I'd love to understand the problem.
> 
> > post the output from running "mythbackend -v
> > schedule --testsched" 
> 
> http://www.dhampton.net/testsched.txt
> 
> > and the entire contents of your capturecard and
> > cardinput tables. 
> 
> http://www.dhampton.net/capturecard.txt
> http://www.dhampton.net/cardinput.txt
> http://www.dhampton.net/channel.txt

Here's the smoking gun:

Scheduling:
+ = schedule this showing to be recorded
# = could not schedule this showing, retry later
! = conflict caused by this showing
/ = retry this showing, same priority pass
? = retry this showing, lower priority pass
> = try another showing for this program
% = found another showing, same priority required
$ = found another showing, lower priority allowed
- = unschedule a showing in favor of another one
  +Defiance - Down in the Ground W  680 SYFYHD  23 12:30-13:30  1 1 1  C 1 1/1
  +Grimm - Ring of Fire             511 WBALDT  19 21:00-22:01  1 1 1  A 1 1/1
  +Once Upon a Time - Lacey         512 WMARDT  21 20:00-21:00  1 1 1  A 1 1/1
  +Castle - The Squab and the Quai  512 WMARDT  22 22:01-23:00  1 1 1  A 1 1/1
  +NCIS - Berlin                    513 WJZDT   23 20:00-21:00  1 1 1  A 1 1/1

Translation: It's scheduling the "23 12:30" showing of "Defiance -
Down..." before even considering the earlier showings.

Looking further, the 12:30 showing on the 23rd has priority 1 and the
others (not shown here) have priority 0.  My first guess is you have
the HD priority setting set to 1 and you have bad guide data.  After
looking at my own guide data for "Defiance - Down...", that is indeed
the case.  My 12:30 (really 11:30 since I'm on central time) showing
is marked as HD and the earlier ones aren't.

TMS should have had time to notice and fix the bad guide data by now.
Since they haven't yet, it might not get fixed in time to catch the
first showing.  My suggestion is add an override for the first showing
to be sure.

David
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David Engel
david at istwok.net


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