[mythtv] Ticket 13135: Previously recorded

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sun Oct 22 10:58:11 UTC 2017


On 21/10/17 21:55, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 21/10/17 20:53, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/21/2017 01:10 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
>>> Peter: Thanks for your reply.  Let me try again.
>>>
>>> The three areas at the top of the frontend programme guide show the 
>>> title, subtitle and description for the programme in the selection 
>>> box. In my case they come from eit.  I haven't yet found the code 
>>> that puts them there, but obviously I can write them down or even try 
>>> to remember them before pressing Go (E, M, Space, Enter ... can all 
>>> lead there).
>>>
>>> I thought the code might be able to do that and add some of that 
>>> info, perhaps just below the 'title', on the results screen.  That 
>>> screen can now show (and allow searches on) similar stuff read from 
>>> oldrecorded for any recording with a title that matches. When 
>>> recordings are recycled details may differ.
>>>
>>> I don't want to labour the point; perhaps it doesn't work like that.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>> If you select a program in the guide and then select "Previously 
>> Recorded" from the menu it goes into the Previously Recorded list 
>> filtered on that title. I think it should also switch to "title" 
>> search because you may not realize it if you see the list of dates.
>>
>> Is that what you are trying to do? If no let me know what you are 
>> trying to achieve.
>>
>> Peter
> 
> Yes, I see all that on screen.  I just thought it might be useful, and 
> perhaps easy, to have a more detailed on-screen reminder of what is on 
> offer 'now' to help me decide whether it /might/ be a match for a 
> recording made earlier. :-)
> 
> John

Just realised that I was still using my lightly customised theme from 
~/.mythtv, which didn't include this patch to schedule-ui.xml

Now I see the search results in blue - but my 'wish list' query still 
applies.

Apologies.

John


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