[mythtv-users] Weekly recording

[Robin Gilks]

>
>> On 2 Oct 2013, at 2:44 pm, "Phill Edwards" <philledwards at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The way of the MythTV is to go and fix your guide. Then the scheduler
>>> can make better decisions. For NZ that may be as simple as switching
>>> from the transmitted EIT guide to the transmitted MHEG5 guide (whatever
>>> that is). E.g. http://code.google.com/p/mheg2xmltv/
>>
>> I may have misunderstood the problem, or your answer, but I don't see
>> how it's an issue for the TV guide data. Stations sometimes choose to
>> broadcast a program multiple times per week, and the guide data reflects
>> that correctly. (BTW I'm in Australia and use guide data from a scraper
>> called Shepherd which is extremely good). The beauty of the Record
>> Weekly rule is that it means I don't have to tell MythTV which
>> occurrence of the program to record, as long as it does its best to
>> record one of them without conflict. How can that now be achieved if
>> there's no Record Weekly option (without setting up some arcane
>> recording rule)?
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> [Mark] I'm on 0.27 and in mythweb just went Recording Schedule (custom)
> and the options immediately there include 'Find and record one showing
> each day' and 'Find and record one showing each week'. Will that achieve
> the required outcome? There are a range of further options available under
> advanced options, it seems it should be relatively straightforward to
> create the necessary rule?
>
> I think it's unclear from the OP exactly what the failure mode is - is
> duplicate detection failing or is it generic (or incorrect) program ID's
> in the EPG? There have been a few previous posts on fine tuning duplicate
> detection that may be relevant depending on the exact
> problem.

As the OP who asked the question in the first place, let me illustrate
with an example.

I have an STB - I can only record 1 program at a time from it (no such
thing as multirec for this type of source). I want to record 2 programs
each week that are on at the same day and time (but of course on different
channels).

With the "Record Weekly" function  up to 0.26 I could schedule both
programs and one or other of the repeats (as originally described) would
be picked for one or other of the programs. The following week it would do
the right thing even if the sub-title and/or description were generic
since that is the way the rule worked. I would get 1 copy of each program
recorded per week - not 3 a day, not 2 plus a conflict.

Now with 0.27, I'd like to do the same. Each time I set a rule to record a
new series that shows weekly, I'd like to not be jumping through hoops
with a simple IR remote trying to specify what day(s) and time brackets
apply to the rule. I just want it recorded once a week along with the
other 1 or 2 other programs on other channels that are showing at the same
time (or more likely overlap).

If I could create a macro and select that as the rule and call it 'weekly'
then that would do what I wanted and if nobody else wanted it then they
wouldn't get it cluttering their screen when they scheduled a new series.
That's not going to happen in 0.27 so I'd like to find something that
does.

I think this is a case of the majority of the developers being in
countries a bit different to mine - we don't have program IDs, we don't
even have many channels (9 I think was the last count plus another 20 or
so from a satellite), we get prosecuted if we make the satellite listings
available (no - they won't negotiate) - we make do.


-- 
Robin Gilks