[mythtv-users] Autoexpire not working, not sure when it stopped working

Bill Meek keemllib at gmail.com
Mon May 22 16:19:32 UTC 2023


On Monday 22 May 2023 07:17:48 AM (-05:00), Jay Harbeston wrote:


> I have about 4 recording rules that are set to limit the number or recordings to 10 or 15 available, and autoeixpire used to trim them to the count.

> Some time in the recent past, they no longer get removed, and so no I have 20 to 50 instead of the limit referenced.

>

> I do have the settings for the recordings record new and expire old as well as autoexpire recordings checked in addition to the quantity I wanted to keep set.

>

> Any ideas what I need to look for?

>

> I do see occasional records such as this in the logs..

>

> May 19 08:03:54 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:725 (ExpireEpisodesOverMax) Deleting 41002 at 2023-04-20T11:00:00Z => Toon in With Me. Too many episodes, we only want to keep 15.

> May 19 08:17:54 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:631 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 1571 MB for 41002 at 2023-04-18T11:00:00Z => "Toon in With Me":"Eggflation in a Coffee Nation"

> May 20 08:10:56 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:631 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 1520 MB for 41002 at 2023-04-19T11:00:00Z => "Toon in With Me":"Show 3064"

> May 21 08:07:57 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:631 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 1377 MB for 41002 at 2023-04-20T11:00:00Z => "Toon in With Me":"Show 3065"

> May 21 08:07:57 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:631 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 1275 MB for 41002 at 2023-04-21T11:00:00Z => "Toon in With Me":"Show 3066"

> May 21 08:07:57 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:631 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 1231 MB for 41002 at 2023-04-24T11:00:00Z => "Toon in With Me":"Fame Has Its Parks"

> May 21 08:07:57 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:631 (SendDeleteMessages) Expiring 105 MB for 41002 at 2023-04-25T11:00:00Z => "Toon in With Me":"Old Dog, New Tricks"

> May 22 08:00:59 mythpc mythbackend: mythbackend[1513225]: N Expire autoexpire.cpp:725 (ExpireEpisodesOverMax) Deleting 41002 at 2023-04-26T11:00:00Z => Toon in With Me. Too many episodes, we only want to keep 15.

>

> When I do a search on the other series that I limit, there are no logs of them referenced with autoexpire. Even though I am seeing messages as above, The retained quantity does not drop down to the keep quantity.

>

> The only difference that I see in the recording rules is that "Toon in with me” doesn’t have 'this channel' selected.

>

> Help!

>

> Regards,

>

> Jay



If you're on: Debian 10,  maridb 10.3.38:


Can you delete a recording manually? If not, then this may be why:


  https://forum.mythtv.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=5349

Solution's on page 5.

-- 
Bill
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