[mythtv-users] Starting recordings early and finishing late not working

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Sat Mar 6 08:12:10 UTC 2010


On 5 March 2010 09:54, Ian Oliver <lists at foxhill.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <VA.00002569.026d241f at foxhill.co.uk>, Ian Oliver wrote:
>> I have now tweaked existing rules, and set a test recording, which got padded in
>> the right direction.
>
> OK, I set five mins early start and 10 mins late end. I also cut the tuner pre-
> start to just a few seconds.
>
> Now we have a new problem!
>
> My daughter set Friends to record at 5pm to 5:30pm and 5:30pm to 6pm on E4. This
> has been recording two Friends per day for weeks. When I cut the tuner pre-start,
> she started missing the start as this scheduled event didn't have the five mins
> early start. So, I deleted the rules and created two new ones, again using
> "Recording this time slot every day"
>
> One of the rules is recording every day, but they other says it will record on the
> 5th but then not again until the 10th. The show does seem to occasionally move five
> minutes in the schedule - could this be the problem?  I wonder why it was working
> before?

Looks like that one rule is only picking up the episodes that start at
4:55pm, on the 5th and the 10th.

That's one of the reasons that I don't often (never) use the timeslot
option. I presume that you're doing this to avoid duplication?  Have
you tried "anytime on this channel", to see how well the duplicate
detection works?

Even if it doesn't work too well, it's not hard to delete the
duplicates, either from the upcoming recordings list, or after it's
been recorded and  I find that using the Radio Times data, the
duplicate detection works pretty well these days.


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