[mythtv-users] Proposed scheduler change - feedback please

[Jeffrey Orlin]

>Quoting steve at nexusuk.org:
> > As some of you probably know, the scheduler is having some big changes
> > done to it ATM.  A question has come up on the -dev list and I want to ask
> > the opinion of all the users:
> >
> > In MythTV 0.13 and lower, if 2 different shows of equal priority
> > conflicted then you could tell it to always make one override the other
> > when the same 2 shows conflicted in the future.  In MythTV 0.14, the
> > ability to set new overrides like this was removed although it still pays
> > attention to the overrides that were already set up before upgrading.
> >
> > The proposed scheduler changes are planned to completely remove this
> > functionality and go to a purely priority based conflict resolution
> > system.  I believe this is a Bad Thing since as far as I can tell, that
> > would make the conflict resolution more difficult to control, less
> > flexible and less intuitive.  Especially for those of us with only a
> > single tuner (and so many more conflicts).
> >
> > I'd like your opinions on the matter - do we keep this functionality in
> > in addition to the priorities (like it is in 0.13) or rip it out
> > completely leaving only priorities?

Aren't you just giving one of the shows a little priority boost
over the other? Perhaps this is what the "always record this
over the other" could do and then you're just talking about a
UI change that is just adjusting the priorities under the covers.

Personally I find the conflict resolution screen hard to use. The
summary count of conflicts doesn't include items marked A although
they are counted as important. Also, it shouldn't show all the shows
that are going to be recorded, only those which are causing another
show not to be recorded.  This can be sort of achieved via MythWeb. If you
check only the Deactivated and Conflicts boxes you see all the shows that
will not be recorded for some reason. Unfortunately it doesn't tell you the
reason unless you hover over it and if you want to see what its conflicting
with you have to check the Scheduled box and find it again.