[mythtv-users] Several inputs

[Michael T. Dean]

On 02/21/2013 11:40 AM, Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, David Engel wrote:
>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>>>> Yup - that's what I've had to do.  Unfortunately, that means that I
>>>>> have to also manage two groups of max recordings, but that's no big deal.
>> Ah, I didn't read the beginning of this thread closely enough.  Sorry.
>> What you want is to exclude one channel for a specfic recording rule.
>> You have to use a custom recording rule for that.  You're in luck
>> since there's already an example of how to do that.  See the "Exclude
>> one station" example in the custom rule editor.
> Ah- thanks!  I hadn't seen that.  I'll have to give it a whirl.

Yeah, that's what I was recommending for your case--a custom rule that 
specifies which channels to include or exclude.  That was the "or 
something else--i.e. in this case, I'd recommend" part after I mentioned 
that having 2 "this channel" rules would be very ugly.  I suppose I 
should have pointed out that we had example clauses for all 3 (yes, 3!) 
cases:

1) "Only on a specific station", applied twice with an OR relationship
2) "Exclude one station"
3) "Only channels from the Favorites group" modified to use whatever 
channel group you've created that doesn't contain the channel you want 
to exclude.

And, the custom rule approach will result in only one rule, so only one 
"max episodes" to manage.

Mike