[mythtv-users] Scheduler crazymaking

[David Engel]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 07:39:15PM -0400, David Hampton wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 18:02 -0500, David Engel wrote:
> > Translation: It's scheduling the "23 12:30" showing of "Defiance -
> > Down..." before even considering the earlier showings.
> 
> I had noticed that when I ran the testsched command for you.
> 
> > Looking further, the 12:30 showing on the 23rd has priority 1 and the
> > others (not shown here) have priority 0.  My first guess is you have
> > the HD priority setting set to 1
> 
> I do.
> 
> > and you have bad guide data.  After
> > looking at my own guide data for "Defiance - Down...", that is indeed
> > the case.  My 12:30 (really 11:30 since I'm on central time) showing
> > is marked as HD and the earlier ones aren't.
> > 
> > TMS should have had time to notice and fix the bad guide data by now.
> > Since they haven't yet, it might not get fixed in time to catch the
> > first showing.  My suggestion is add an override for the first showing
> > to be sure. 
> 
> I will.  Thank you for taking the time to look at my problem.  Now I
> understand what's happening, and how to analyze at this type of problem
> in the future.

Glad I could help.  There is one thing to keep in mind when running
--testsched.  It's basically a stand-alone scheduler running in test
mode by itself and as such doesn't account for live TV or recordings
already in progress.

David
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David Engel
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