[mythtv-users] Weekly recording

[blind Pete]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:13:47 -0700
Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:29 AM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 2013-10-25, at 6:48 AM, Stephen Robertson wrote:
> >
> > > For example if there were multiple episodes of the same show on
> > > the same
> > day/week which one would it record?   If there were multiple
> > broadcasts of the same episode then surely the duplicate matching
> > would catch that irrespective of the recording rule.  And if it
> > didn't because the data to make that determination wasn't there
> > then surely the "record one showing every day" operation is even
> > more undefined.  Or at the very least much less intuitive from the
> > description given to the user.
> >
> > I think you have to back to the OP, Robin, and recall that in this
> > case there is no episode information, only a generic description.
> > But what you do know for sure is, for example, the 5pm broadcast is
> > a new episode and the 11pm and 9am next day ones are repeats of
> > that 5pm one. I agree that when you have identified episodes it
> > doesn’t make much sense to use a day/week cycle, I just know not to
> > use the recording rules that way.
> >
> > It seems to me that it’s unhelpful or confusing to have once daily
> > and once weekly as classes of recording rule. They’re really a kind
> > of duplicate detection method since we know that for such and such
> > title all showings from time T to T+24h or T+7d are identical. That
> > situation comes up regularly and in 0.27 there isn’t an easy way to
> > describe it to the scheduler.

It would have been better to call them "once/24h" and "once/7days", 
but that is history.  

> > In the meantime, if David is listening, it sounds like restoring the
> > daily/weekly is just a matter of re-adding them to the appropriate
> > combo box. Is that true? I can run a local patch to get a friend
> > over a scheduling problem in the short term.
> >
> > - George
> >
> 
> No, those options have now shifted to the "Filters" section. The "once
> daily" is now called "This time", and the "once weekly" is now called
> "This day and time" and according to the developers, it's more
> flexible with minor variations in schedule than the old schedule
> options were.
> 
> Karl

Filters are good.  Now to make them better...  

Is there a way to adjust the start time (and day) of the cycle?  

There are three reasons for that.  

First, the user clicked on the wrong showing - having only 
discovered the show late in the week.  

Second, sometimes programs change time slot.  

Third, often EIT data moves around by a couple of minutes as 
preceding shows overrun, or run short, or I suspect, the 
powers that be are deliberately making it hard for us. 

How do we talk a developer into adding a drop down box or a 
write in field to the filter screen for the start-of-time-window?  

-- 
testing
bP