[mythtv-users] Show matching two searches not recorded

Hika van den Hoven hikavdh at gmail.com
Tue May 6 22:48:05 UTC 2014


Hoi Nicolas,

Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 12:38:10 AM, you wrote:

> Am 07.05.2014, 00:22 Uhr, schrieb David Engel <david at istwok.net>:

>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 11:33:15PM +0200, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>> Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 11:08:00 PM, you wrote:
>>> > Note that if you created the rule for the Saturday show with an  
>>> episode
>>> > that started at 4:01pm and the current week's episode starts at  
>>> 4:00pm,
>>> > then the Monday episode would be the first episode of the week  
>>> (because
>>> > your week starts at 4:01pm).  Similarly, since you're using EIT and  
>>> some
>>> > EIT listings do such, if you created a rule for an episode that  
>>> started
>>> > at 4:00:01 and this week's episode starts at 4:00:00, then it's not in
>>> > the new week.
>>>
>>> I think I understand what you mean, but does the fact that, until Myth
>>> receives the monday info it schedules the saturday show and then
>>> after receiving the monday info it reschedules to monday, not mean it
>>> matches them as being in the same week? And does then next saturday
>>> scheduling the show even though it was recorded last monday, not mean
>>> it sees them as belonging to different weeks?
>>
>> It could mean any number of things.  When the Monday showing is
>> scheduled, what is the status of the Saturday showing, earlier, later
>> or something else?
>>
>>> > This is yet one more reason why the "find weekly" rules aren't
>>> > ideal--because even slight schedule changes can have unexpected
>>> > results.  So if your listings force you to use them, you may need to
>>> > work around listings/schedule issues.  IIRC, you can edit the start  
>>> time
>>> > for find weekly recordings in MythWeb's schedule editor.  (Or is that
>>> > only for manual rules?  I may be completely mistaken as I've never
>>> > created or used a find weekly/daily rule.)
>>>
>>> In Mythweb I only see when last the rule was active in recording a
>>> show. The start/end moment of the week is a bit misty. I always
>>> assumed the week starts at the moment of the first recording with the
>>> rule.
>>
>> I though Mythweb had that ability too.  In mythfrontend, press INFO
>> twice on each showing and look for the "Find ID" section near the
>> bottom.  What does it say for each showing?
>>
>> David
> Sorry for jumping in without knowing the previous conversations but I had
> an omnipresent issue in the past which may relate to your discussion.
> My epg populates from german eit via dvb-c and therefore I can confirm
> that they move around the starttimes (and endtimes) a lot! It is not only
> varying starting times for tv series from one week to another, but  
> additionally corrections and re-corrections of previously received eit
> data!

> Because of this I ended up in creating manual recording rules for all tv
> series that defines a time range - e. g.:
> program.title = 'How I Met Your Mother' AND  
> DAYNAME(CONVERT_TZ(program.starttime, 'Etc/UTC', 'SYSTEM')) = 'Wednesday'
> AND HOUR(CONVERT_TZ(program.starttime, 'Etc/UTC', 'SYSTEM')) >= 19 AND
> HOUR(CONVERT_TZ(program.starttime, 'Etc/UTC', 'SYSTEM')) < 23

> This works well.

> Hope this helps,
> Nicolas
> _______________________________________________
Thanks, I know, therefore I update xmltv twice a day. Ones at 4:30
when the new data comes in and ones around 18:00 for the evening
update. Except for one station (Veronica) that normally works OK. The
issue now is why Myth standardly favors the rerun over the first
showing two days earlier.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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