[mythtv-users] Deep dark magic

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Sunday, November 9, 2014, 1:15:48 PM, you wrote:

> Hi
> I have a schedule rule to record the news daily:

> Schedule Options
> Record Any Time Any Channel

> Filters
> This Channel

> Duplicate Check
> None
> (Todays news looks like yesterday’s new: Subtitle etc)

> If the station transmits on multiple muxes (and it usually does,
> but not *allways*) I get two recordings.
> Same thing happens if I’ve recorded an episode from some series.
> As part of my trying to solve the issue I have set 1 tuner per card
> and I can see 2 cards being used to do the recording.

> What could I do to enforce a single recording?
> What can I do to see debug info on how the scheduler has chosen it’s actions?

> I’m getting zero byte recordings. If I look at the channel on
> LiveTV it ranges from good to bad (where bad is pixellated and
> squawky). If I scan there are multiple repeats of the channels. I
> suspect I may have choosen a *bad set* and I should rescan and try
> again. The logs are not very enlightning (from memory something
> like) “Recording failed”. Any thoughts or opinions welcome.

> James

> _______________________________________________

Set it to record daily. I picks every day the one with the highest
priority and it than only records the second on failure. Unless
of cause you want to record more than one every day.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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