[mythtv-users] Deep dark magic

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:40:34 +0800, you wrote:

>
>> On 10 Nov 2014, at 5:39 pm, mythtv-users-request at mythtv.org wrote:
>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 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.
>> 
>> James, you should really specify your listings source.  This is 
>> definitely good advice if your listings source treats news broadcasts as 
>> they're treated in North America--as generic episodes (meaning duplicate 
>> detection doesn't work on them).  If you're really in Samoa (guessing 
>> based on e-mail address)
>> 
>> See https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Duplicate_matching for help figuring out 
>> how MythTV determines what to consider as duplicate episodes.
>
>ws was takenaway from Westerm Somoa and became a TLD “Web Site”. c’est la vie
>I use the EIT listings that work well for me.
>
>My frustration is that the “Upcoming Recordings" shows only a single recording will be made, then SURPRIZE another occurs
>Despite extensive searching I cannot find the “record daily” et al options anywhere.
>
>James

If you make the channels have different setup from each other so that
MythTV does not think they are the same channel, then you can just use
the "This channel" filter on regular recording rules to tell it which
one to record.  To make the channels different, I believe you need to
change the callsign field.  So you could use the real callsign for the
channel you want to record from, and then add say "a" at the end of
the callsign for the first alternate version of the channel, "b" for
the second and so on.  The downside of doing that is that, depending
on how good your EPG is, you may not be able to get MythTV to
automatically record from an alternate channel if it misses recording
from the main channel for any reason.