[mythtv-users] How do you automatically set recordings as watched?

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 15 03:22:49 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>wrote:

> On 11/14/2008 03:26 PM, Scott Colbeck wrote:
> > How do you automatically set a watched recording with the 'watched'
> > flag?  The release notes for 0.21 state this can be set manual or
> > automatically.  I can set it manually but would like it to be
> > automatic.  I set the "Utilities/Setup->Setup->TV
> > Settings->Playback->Automatically mark a recording watched" option but
> > this does not seem to work.  Is this a bug or is there some other
> > option to set?
>
> A friend of mine just demonstrated this on his system, but we were
> running a very old version of -fixes at the time.  I upgraded our
> systems this week and asked him to let me know if he's still seeing the
> issue so I could fix it.  I'll take your question as confirmation that
> it still exists.
>
> I'll take a look at it.  It's quite likely I'm going to switch my dev
> box over to -fixes to do some unrelated work, today, so I can work on
> the watched flag stuff at the same time.
>
> Mike
>

Same for me, it never marked a program watched even if I let it run until
playback ended and returned me to the recording menu, however, when I
checked the box that would mark a recording watched as long as I was "near
the end" of a program before I exited, myth started marking programs as
read.

This really caused a problem because all the stuff I watched prior to
changing that setting were not marked as watched and everything i watched
after making the setting change was getting marked as watched and therefore
was expiring before all the old stuff. I finally put together a SQL command
to mark everything as watched and that fixed it for me.

Richard
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