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

[Johan]

Johan wrote:
> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> 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.  :)
> My bad..
>>
>>> 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.)
> Thanks. Not up to that yet, maybe one day. I assume this issue was 
> brought up before, but escaped my attention.
> It was also mentioned somewhere that I could use Emacs key Combo's 
> (Ctrl-n to move to next line) in the edit box. Guess that was before 
> MythUI implementation.
>
> I'll live with the limitation until I can fix it, or work around it.
>
>
>>
>> Mike
> Johan
For those interested: *Ticket #7192: Creation of *custom* rules is broken.
*If terminology changes between versions, (power search versus custom 
rules) it is hard to Google. *
*
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