[mythtv-users] manual recording (scheduling question)

[Bruce Markey]

Alexander Petkov wrote:
> Once a manual recording has been scheduled, is it possible to set it to record every day?

No. The contributed code for manual recording was done 'on the
cheap' and didn't want to rework the underlying premise of the
scheduler that recording rules much match shows in the listings.
Therefore, what happens when you add a manual record rule, it
adds a matching fake entry into the program table. After you
add a manual record, you can see this in the EPG, Search
Listings->Channels, etc.

While it was simple to implement, the problems with this are
that recurring manual records won't work and manual records
won't work if they are created two or more days ahead of time
because mythfilldatabase will wipe out the fake entry when it
updates data for 'tomorrow'.

Manual recording would need to be reimplemented with a flag
in the record table to tell the scheduler to add these items
to the schedule without regard to the listing. That would make
daily and weekly possible and allow setting single records days
or weeks ahead of time.

--  bjm