[mythtv-users] scheduler confusion

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/07/2014 04:58 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> AFAIK you should rarely, if ever, have to specify cards/inputs in your recording rules. Normally you simply tell the system *WHAT* you want recording and it works out *WHERE* it can be recorded.

+1

It's amazing how often people's adding channel or input or power 
priorities, or complex power/custom recording rules, or using recording 
filters or too-restrictive recording rule types to ensure MythTV records 
the shows they want also prevent MythTV from recording other shows they 
want, which causes them to add more (and more) complex/confusing 
channel/input/power priorities or power rules or filters or ...

In most cases, when all is said and done, the answer to the question, 
"Why doesn't MythTV recording show X?" comes down to, "Because here, for 
show Y, you told it ..., which prevents show X from recording," and in 
some cases, "because of the way they line up with shows Z, A, B, and 
C..."  Often, clearing all the priorities and, sometimes, filters, then 
setting up simple "record all" rules and using rule-based priorities 
alone will allow MythTV to get all the shows you want without your ever 
having to worry.

In other words, too many people paint MythTV into a corner--without 
realizing it--and then think the scheduler is broken because it's doing 
exactly what they told it to do.  (And they eventually find out that's 
the case when someone takes a couple hours of their free time to dig 
through their scheduler output and priorities and rules for them.)

Mike