[mythtv-users] More info about scheduling new recordings

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Fri Jul 23 17:47:55 EDT 2004


Curtis Stanford wrote:

>
> On Jul 23, 2004, at 2:14 PM, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:
>
>> Curtis Stanford wrote:
>>
>>> Does the 'New recordings' settings work for anyone? I really would 
>>> like to get this to work so here is a detailed description of my 
>>> latest attempt.
>>>
>>> I decided to pick a show that had a mixture of new and old episodes 
>>> (in my case, Canadian Idol). I checked the program table and the 
>>> previously shown field was set perfectly (i.e. it was 0 for the new 
>>> episodes and 1 for the many repeats on other channels)
>>>
>>> Then I did the following:
>>>
>>> 1. Deleted all instances of recordings for Canadian Idol. I wanted 
>>> to start fresh.
>>>
>>> 2. Selected 'Program Finder' and scrolled to Canadian Idol and 
>>> pressed the right arrow.
>>>
>>> 3. About a dozen episodes where shown on the right. I picked one and 
>>> hit Enter.
>>>
>>> 4. Pressed 'i' to go to advanced screen.
>>>
>>> 5. Noticed that Scheduling Options and Storage Options were 
>>> disabled. Selected 'Record at any time on any channel'.
>>>
>>
>> There appears to be a bug causing the wrong value to be selected if 
>> you hit select the recording type from the full list of types instead 
>> of using the left/right arrows I'll take a look at fixing it.
>>
> Well, I didn't even know about the left/right arrow thing. That 
> actually works for me. Thanks for checking it out.

 
It should be fixed in CVS sometime tonight.  Some other recent changes 
have my system in fits so I'm rebuilding the world.  fyi this is bug #30 
in bugzilla.



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