[mythtv-users] Where have default start early/late settings gone in 0.27?

Karl Newman newmank1 at asme.org
Fri Nov 1 18:29:55 UTC 2013


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:
>
>> On 11/01/2013 09:11 AM, Bob Long wrote:
>>
>>> Michael T. Dean wrote,
>>>
>>>  On 11/01/2013 07:52 AM, Bob Long wrote:
>>>>
>>> [..]
>>>
>>>  Do the settings still exist somewhere?
>>>>>
>>>>>  No.  Those settings were a hack.
>>>>
>>>> Instead, you now have the ability to create Recording Rule Templates.
>>>> These allow you to specify values to use for basically every part of the
>>>> Recording Rule.  Each system starts with one Recording Rule Template
>>>> called Default.  You can set the start early/end late--or whether or not
>>>> to run commercial detection and/or user jobs, or whether to allow
>>>> auto-expiration, or the Recording Group, or the Storage Group, or
>>>> ...--in the Default template and those values will be used when creating
>>>> new rules.
>>>>
>>>> However, you can also create your own custom Recording Rule Templates.
>>>> So, for example, you may want to create one called Movies that sets
>>>> auto-expire as enabled, the Recording Group as Movies, the Recording
>>>> Priority as low (maybe -50), ...  And create another called "Kids Shows"
>>>> which sets its auto-expire/Recording Group/Priority and also specifies a
>>>> max of 3 recordings with Record New and expire old.  And...
>>>>
>>> Ok... I see the sense of that.
>>>
>>>
>>> I found the default template and modified it for early/late times, so
>>> that's good. Also added a "this channel" filter. Here (Australia) we
>>> often have the same program appear simultaneously on other multiplexes,
>>> so I don't want them recorded too (or am I misinterpreting/misusing
>>> that?).
>>>
>>> Seems to work when I use the frontend to schedule. When using Mythweb,
>>> the early/late times show as I've set them (good), but the "this
>>> channel" filter checkbox is not ticked. What am I missing here?
>>>
>>
>> MythWeb has only partial support for Recording Rule templates, and
>> doesn't include support for the "this channel" filter.  See also
>> http://code.mythtv.org/trac/**ticket/11706<http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/11706>.  Patches appreciated.
>>
>>
>>  Related, I created my own "Test" template, but I can't see a way in
>>> Mythweb to use it. Is that possible?
>>>
>>
>> MythWeb will only pull (partial) default values from the Default
>> template.  It doesn't currently support applying values from any other
>> template (but a patch allowing a user to select a template whose settings
>> should be applied would be appreciated).
>>
>> Mike
>>
>
> I have an easy fix for this, but I want to be sure there are no unintended
> consequences because the change is in a class which is used in several
> places. The recordfilter table has a "newruledefault" column which is what
> is being used for new schedules (instead of the filter values set in the
> Default template). Is it safe to just ignore that column or are there
> circumstances where it might still be used?
>
> Karl
>
FYI, here's the patch:

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/attachment/ticket/11706/mythweb_default_filters_fix.patch

Karl
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