[mythtv-users] Power search recording rules

[James Abernathy]

On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:18 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:07 AM Peter Bennett <pb.mythtv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 9/23/23 10:56, James Abernathy wrote:
>> > I have a power search recording rule that records all College Football
>> > games except those on specific channels.
>> >
>> > i.e.
>> > program.title='College Football' and channel.channum not in ('28_1',
>> > '22_2', '34_1', '22_1')
>> >
>> > This rule works fine but some Saturdays it still produces a number of
>> > recorded games I'm not interested in.
>> >
>> > How do I tell Mythtv to not record a specific game that it picked
>> > using the Power Search without messing up the other games today or in
>> > the future?
>> >
>> > JIm A
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> Create an override rule with "don't record" option for the specific
>> showings in the upcoming list. Note that you may have to create several
>> override rules because if you override one program it may simply switch
>> to recording the same program from another channel.
>>
>> You can do this from the new web app if you are running master, or from
>> mythfrontend. Leanfront does not do overrides at this time.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
> Thanks,  Using mythfrontend on v34 Master I can go to upcoming recordings
> and on the one I don't want to record edit the recording to Add an override
> and then select do not record.  This then shows up with an "X" in the list
> of upcoming but leaves the others alone.
>
> I could not figure out how to do this with the Web app under the recording
> rules or upcoming.  I must have missed it.
>
> Jim A
>

Okay, I found the symbol next to the edit on the upcoming recordings tab.
Looks like a paper clip tilted.  I can add an override to not record and
that works, but I could not delete the override.  I had to go back to
mythfrontend to delete the override.

Jim A
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