[mythtv-users] Unsupress a recording

[Joseph A. Caputo]

*Sigh*

This is exactly the functionality accomplished by my patch.  It adds two
flags to the database:  PROGRAM.overridesuppression and
RECORD.ignoreduplicates

PROGRAM.overridesuppression does what you want Single Record to do -- it
marks a single instance of a program to be forcibly recorded, without
affecting the current recording type.  You don't need a separate entry in
the RECORD table.  (Assuming that you've already scheduled the show to
record with one of the recurring record types)

RECORD.ignoreduplicates tells Myth to always ignore whether a particular
program is a duplicate when determining to record a show for a scheduled
recording.

I'm also going to add PROGRAM.forcesuppress (or maybe make
PROGRAM.overridesuppression into an enumerated value: 0 - default behavior;
1 - force suppress; 2 - force unsuppress) so that you can forcibly SKIP
recording a single instance of a show.

Again, I'm providing (probably next week) the ability to control these
features; someone just has to incorporate it into a GUI.

-JAC

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Bruce Markey
> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:54 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Unsupress a recording
>
>
> Allen T. Gilliland IV wrote:
> >>Single record should a separate entity independent
> >>of any
> >>other rows in the database that happens to have the
> >>same
> >>title. You should be able to mark that you want to
> >>record
> >>a single showing with no impact on a selection for a
> >>series that may happen to have the same title.
> >
> >
> > It has never worked this way for me, whenever I change
> > a shows recording setting from say Timeslot record to
> > Single Recording then it removes the timeslot record.
>
> Which is what I said in the first place (and you disputed ;-)
> Currently it modifies the entry for that title so single
> record says record this showing and no others. I'm sure we
> agree that this is not the desired behavior.
>
> > I am not debating that functionality because it makes
> > sense, you don't want to double record things.  To me
> > it sounds like in your example above you would expect
> > to see a single show marked with 2 recording types
> > (single and timeslot) ...
> >
> > are you suggesting this is how it should work?
>
> Not exactly. There should be two entries in the record
> table; record "The Daily Show" everytime it is on at 11PM
> on Comedy Central, and another entry to record the show
> on Comedy Central at 11PM on 5/20/2003.
>
> Single record "wins" in conflict resolution so 5/20 would
> be marked "R" and all other days would be marked "T".
>
> --  bjm