[mythtv-users] Ouch...burned recording NFL game on invisible channels

[Another Sillyname]

Instead of making those channels invisible why not just give them an
alternate channel number, say a prefix 99 for example?

Have a read on combined Freeview and Freesat setup threads for similar
issues in the UK and
how they can be handled.



On 21 December 2014 at 22:35, Tom Dexter <digitalaudiorock at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yow...I think I just got burned by way of, what I guess might be
> called an "undocumented feature" ;).  I figured I'd warn anyone else
> who might try this:
>
> Here's my situation:  I'm in NJ and record NY OTA channels.  I can
> also get Philly if I turn my antenna.  For that reason I have all the
> Philly stations set as invisible.
>
> The only time I tend to ever record Philly is when there's an NFS game
> that's not on the NY stations.  What I used to do in that case was to
> temporarily set the station as visible and then schedule the recording
> after turning the antenna.
>
> Since you can manually tune invisible channels from live TV I recently
> decided to see what would happen if I just hit record from there.  As
> I expected, it started recording...but I also wanted to make sure that
> I could change the recording options etc from other screens.  The
> latter was important because I always add time to NFL games as the
> almost always run late.  Sure enough it let me do so, so I thought I'd
> found a great shortcut.  Not so much:
>
> While it in fact let me do all that and looked like everything was OK,
> at the scheduled end time of the game, the system rescheduled and
> apparently stopped the record once rule with a "not listed" status!
> Ouch.  I missed the deciding minutes of the Lions game.
>
> Maybe others know if there's any work around to that, but I doubt it.
> The schedulers behavior of skipping the invisible channels is in fact
> exactly what I expect/want...I just didn't think it would mess with
> those.  In the future I know to just set them as visible as I used to.
>
> Tom
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