[mythtv-users] Power recording rule for night time preference

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/08/2010 03:13 PM, Johan wrote:
> I discovered that my PC was the biggest power consumer in the 
> household (actually 70% of my power was consumed by my PC).
>
> The machine was always on to record (combined BE/FE). I have 
> reconfigured Myth and some other settings to make it start 5 minutes 
> before the recording and shut down afterwards, using the PC's built in 
> RTC.
>
> Since the price of electricity here is quite high (about 0.2$ per kWh) 
> and about 60% of that during nights and weekends I was wondering if I 
> could force MythTV to record preferably shows at night time, without 
> excluding those at daytime.
>
> Forcing the recording time to 7PM to 7AM excludes daytime showings.
>
> This is the behavior I would like to have:
> If the show is aired during daytime, but within X amount of days (or 
> available listing days) also at nighttime then do not record the 
> daytime showing. Many shows are repeated during night time.
>
> I'm not an SQL expert, but I assume some field must be added or 
> modified to achieve this. I know that the "Earlier" status prevents a 
> recording if Myth "thinks" it can record that episode at an earlier 
> occasion. Maybe a "Night" status could prevent Myth from recording a 
> daytime episode if the same episode is also run at night.
>
> But as I said before, I'm not an SQL expert, but I believe there are 
> some reading this list.

Custom priority.  Can even use "Prefer movies when shown at night 
(complete example)" from the UI and then just remove the 
"program.category_type = 'movie' AND " part of it.

Utilities/Setup|Setup|TV Settings|Recording Priorities|Custom Priority

Mike