[mythtv-users] Lost Recordings and Database

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Jan 10 22:56:56 UTC 2023


On 10/01/2023 20:53, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> Hoi Simon,
> 
> Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 9:20:27 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> The helpful replies so far (especially how this can be achieved using
>>> the API) are suggesting how to remove knowledge of the missing
>>> recordings from the database so that they may be recorded again in the
>>> future.
>>>
>>> They do not go as far as creating a recording rule for each missing
>>> recording so that they are automatically recorded when next broadcast.
>>> Is this what you are after?
> 
>> I was thinking along the same lines as I have “a few” missing files
>> after a self inflicted loss of a recordings directory a few years
>> ago. But I’ve never had enough impetus to sit down and create new
>> recording rules for them (quite a few were “find and record one
>> showing” rules which self-delete after a successful recording).
> 
>> Simon
> 
> I guess you mean "Record this showing" If you select "Record One
> showing" the rule stays active and would in theory be able to
> rerecord.
> 
Nope. If you schedule, as I do, using mythweb, one of the options is, indeed, "Find and record one 
showing of this title."

-- 

Mike Perkins




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