[mythtv-users] Scheduler issues related to plus one channels

Nick knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 00:10:14 UTC 2006


On 28/01/06, Graeme Hilton <graeme.hilton at fishter.org.uk> wrote:
> All,
>
> Perhaps this is one for the wish-list.
>
> Here in the UK (and probably everywhere else!) we have a few channels
> that follow another channel by one hour.  For example E4 and E4+1.
>
> Unfortunately when mythfilldatabase grabs new data from the Radio Times
> website there are often differences in title, subtitle and description
> between the two channels.  When there are scheduled recordings on these
> channels I often end up with several recordings of the same program, no
> matter the setting of the duplicate detection.
>
> Would it be useful to be able to define a channel as being a copy of
> another channel, plus an offset?  In this way Myth should be able to
> more effectively detect duplicate recordings.  It might also have the
> side-effect of making shorter download times for listings updates!
>
> Perhaps this could be incorporated into channel setup with a dialog to
> allow the user to select a channel and an offset.  This data can be
> stored in the database (channels table).  When Myth checks the schedules
> it can "create" a virtual channel to display in the epg, use when
> calculating conflicts etc....

Graeme,

I've not posted on this particular topic before but have thought the
same for quite a while. it's another feature that mythfilldatabase
could certainly use (my real bugbear is the lack of an option to allow
a single source file to be used for mutliple sources in a single hit).
I think it would be extremely useful to be able to create and mark
channels as being timeshifted versions of existing ones (not just +1hr
as there is FX+2 for instance). As you suggest, you could reuse the
same listings for each 'copy' to negate the problems of the listings
providers having slightly differing descriptions, and also get faster
channel updates as a result. There is also the problem (I existed
until recently for More4+1 using uk_rt - I need to send the updates
for the grabber for the new channels just added!) that listings for +1
channels are not available - so this solution would have multiple
benefits.

Nick


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