[mythtv-users] manual recording

[David Engel]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 01:56:57PM +0000, UB40D wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:53 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I hope my reply isn't too late to help, but...
> >
> 
> It is in the sense that by now I've already missed that particular
> recording (it will happen tonight but before I get back home, and the
> machine is now in non-bootable state), but I'm still interested to know, so
> thanks all the same for attempting to figure it out.
> 
> 
> > When you said you "schedule[d] a manual recording", do you mean you went
> > through Manage Recordings|Schedule Recordings|Manual Schedule in
> > mythfrontend?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> > If so, it should have worked.
> 
> 
> But sadly didn't.
> 
> 
> > The only reason you should ever get a "does not match any showings"
> > message is if you used the guide to schedule a recording (i.e. went to the
> > appropriate time in the guide and selected the "No Data" block at the time
> > you wanted to start the recording and set up a rule for that).
> >
> 
> I did not do that.
> 
> I repeated this 3 times, with small variations, but couldn't figure out why
> it was failing. The error message, which I transcribed at the start of this
> thread, did not make a lot of sense to me under the circumstances.

Are you running EIT on the channel in question or have you done
anything else that tries to manipulate the probram table outside of
MythTV?

David
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David Engel
david at istwok.net