[mythtv-users] multiple cards need 'cardid' field in recorded table

[f-myth-users at media.mit.edu]

    Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:27:25 -0500
    From: mikepolniak <mikpolniak at adelphia.net>

    I am using 3 different HDTV cards and 2 pvr-150 cards, all with different
    tuners and it would be useful to identify which card(tuner) a program was
    recorded with. Some of the tuners are more sensitive and this sometimes
    affects the recording quality.

    I would just like to know the 'cardid' for each of my recordings. Anyone else think
    this would be useful or have suggestions? 

I do.  In general, I wish that both recorded and oldrecorded imported
basically -all- the data that they could from other tables (e.g.,
episode numbers & so forth) because it's -extremely- handy to have
that data available without manually adding extra rows & trying to
have the copy happen at exactly the right time.  (Obviously, this is
for using the database to help in archiving/searching applications.)

In the particular case of tuners, I've occasionally wanted to know
which tuner recorded something to try to do fault isolation.  I can
approximate that data by going "-v all" logging and grovelling the
logfiles, but it's hardly automated.

Note that I'm only arguing here for this info to be preserved in the
DB, not exposed in the UI.  I figure anything that really needs this
information can use SQL or phpmyadmin to get it, without hairing up
the UI.

(I'm still running 0.18.1 for a while yet, so if they already preserve
more info than they do in that version, that'd be great, but I haven't
checked.)