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

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Feb 9 19:36:36 UTC 2010


On 02/09/2010 02:29 PM, Johan wrote:
> Tom Furie wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:13:40PM +0100, Johan wrote:
>>> 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. 
>> My first guess would be to set up two rules. One for night-time
>> showings, with a high priority, the other for day-time showings, with a
>> lower priority.
> Thanks, if that works it was too simple.

See my other response for an even simpler method.

> I assumed priorities would only come into effect if there was a conflict.

Nope.  Priorities always apply.  :)

> Now that I'm trying to edit the power search/recording rule I'm 
> running in to all kinds of problems. Nothing to do with the rules, but 
> with the edit box.
>
> After a bit of editing my cursor is not near the character I am typing 
> (10 characters away), if I paste the example by pressing the OK key on 
> my remote (can someone update the 
> docs..http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html the "add this 
> example" key does not exist anymore) the text is not visible in the 
> box, or sometimes it is, but I can't get to the second line to edit. 
> The cursor key and the enter key move to the next field not to the 
> next line in the edit box.
>
> Even though the text is invisible, the rule tests ok. The text must be 
> somewhere outside the screen. (Occasionally I see half a character, 
> outside the box on the far lefthand side of the screen).
>
> Short queries seem to appear correct, but the ones that stretch over 
> multiple lines have those issues.
>
> What is the trick here ?

Write (the code to provide) support for a multiline text edit in mythui 
and then submit the patch.  (Or wait for someone else to do it.)

Mike


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