[mythtv-users] Custom Priority question

David Engel david at istwok.net
Tue Sep 17 14:27:36 UTC 2013


On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 08:52:49AM +0200, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 09/16/2013 09:36 PM, David Engel wrote:
> >> program.chanid in (select chanid from channel where lower(callsign) like
> >> 'bbc%') and  hour(program.starttime) < 5
> > 
> > I tried this and it works as expected for me.  Why do you think it
> > isn't working?  Note that the secondary priority, which includes the
> > custom priority contribution, isn't currently displayed anywhere
> > except in debug logging.
> 
> Thanks David (and also Mike).
> 
> The reason why I don't think it's working is that I'm still seeing
> recordings being deferred from early evening (the showing I want) to
> middle-of-the-night a couple of days later, although there is no
> shortage of tuners at the earlier time.
> 
> I just looked at an example, and strangely enough in that case the later
> showing is 5 minutes longer than the earlier-one, taking it across the
> boundary between two duration-based rules. But the duration-based rules
> step up the priority in ones, whereas the middle-of-the-night rule
> subtracts 25. So that shouldn't be the reason.

Please run "mythbackend -v schedule --loglevel debug --testsched" and
post the output.

David
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