[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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