[mythtv-users] Some confusion on "record weekly" schedules...

[Alex Brekken]

Hey guys, I've got what might be an easy question regarding Myth's handling 
of weekly recording schedules. I've got a "record weekly" schedule set up 
for the new Battlestar Gallactica series on SciFi every Monday night, 
10:00pm CDT. I've had this setup for a few weeks now, and it works great. 
Today, however, I noticed that SciFi also has a Friday night at 9:00pm 
showing of Battlestar, so I setup a "record weekly" schedule for that 
listing as well. I've since discovered that the episode that shows on Monday 
night is a repeat of the previous Friday night, or at least that what it 
looks like so far. Nevertheless, I opted to keep both schedules in place, 
figuring that even if they are the same episode Myth will sort that out for 
me and only record one. 

Looking at my schedule recordings page on Mythweb, here's what I see: for 
this Friday evening (tomorrow), Myth is NOT going to record this episode and 
has a code of "L" next to the showing, which apparently means it will 
"record this showing at a later time instead." For Monday, Myth WILL record 
that showing of Battlestar. 

Now I fully understand that Myth should only record 1 of the 2 showings 
since they're the exact same episode, however I can't figure out why it's 
electing to record Monday's episode instead of Friday's since Friday is an 
earlier date. There's no other recording happening on Friday at the same 
time which would interfere. (I've got dual tuners, so that wouldn't matter 
anyway) What I would expect to see is that Myth would record Friday's 
episode, and skip Monday's with an indication on Monday's schedule of "P" 
for "previously recorded." 

Does this seem like a problem to anyone else, or am I just misunderstaning 
how the behavior is supposed to work?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20050908/32996543/attachment.htm