[mythtv-users] scheduling a currently showing recording

[blind Pete]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 03:04:08 +0100
Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hoi Karl,
> 
> Friday, November 28, 2014, 2:51:23 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Alistair Grant
> > <akgrant0710 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi Greg,
> >  
> >  Start watching the show in LiveTV, then press the record button.
> >  There's a record button on my remote, and should be the r/R key on
> > the keyboard (I haven't tried this, see
> >  https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Keybindings).
> >  
> >  Cheers,
> >  Alistair
> 
> > It may have something to do with the "future showings" because I
> > successfully started a recording on an in-progress show (one of the
> > Thanksgiving parades, which have no future showings in the next 2
> > weeks) *without* first going to Live TV. I'm on on 0.27.4 (Gentoo).
> 
> > Karl
> 
> That was my guess too when I encountered it some time ago. But since I
> only record so adhoc if I'm testing I forgot about it. It would be
> nice that if you select a show in the guide it would record that one
> and not a future repeat! But I guess it comes with the standard select
> mechanism, where a complete recording is favored over an incomplete
> one.

The perfect behaviour might be; 

If tuner available
  record and mark as broken
fi
if future entry exists
  re-record and delete broken copy
fi

But that is probably a bit of a pain to organise.  

-- 
testing
bP