[mythtv-users] Recording earliest showing

[Stephen Worthington]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 11:21:13 +0200, you wrote:

>> You need to diagnose why it is recording at later times.  There is always a reason.  In the upcoming list, find the first recording time for a show that is recording later, and see what is recording at that time - are all the tuners in use?  If so, what is using them?
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>I have diagnosed it many times. Looked at the program data, e.g. seriesid (in relation to the other two findings I wrote yesterday), etc. Haven't found any reason why this happens. No other recordings were active at that moment.
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>It records later episode numbers earlier than the lowest episode number. Not 100% sure, but it might only happen to the first/earliest recording to take a later one. For the other episodes it takes the first possible one. Maybe someone can verify this.
>Since a year I only have one week program data, so cannot really check, what Myth does in the next weeks (after a first recording). 
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>What I do when I notice this, to "record this show" to trigger the earliest possible show. The show which Myth took before changes from <Tuner> to E. This explains, that there is no tuner conflict. I have 4 tuners and congestions are very rare.

So it is likely a priorities issue.  If you go to the show in the
upcoming recordings list and hit I twice and scroll down, you should
get a list of the priorities applied to the show.  Do that where it
does not record on the first available slot, and compare with where it
does record and see what is different.  To see the not-recording
entries in the upcoming list, hit 1.  To go back to the usual list
with only the ones that are going to record, hit 2.