[mythtv-users] Seeing what I missed during a power outage - Resolved

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/16/2015 12:06 PM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> "Any time on any channel" would work for most stuff, but there are 
> some programs that show in HD on our local PBS station that are 
> repeated on their sub channel in SD. I'd rather get the one from their 
> HD channel, so "any channel" isn't ideal.

So either a) don't include the "never want to watch stuff from it" SD 
sub channel in your configuration (or, if you must include something you 
don't want and waste resources on it, you can mark the channel as not 
visible and MythTV won't record from it), or b) set an HDTV priority in 
MythTV (which will work if your listings properly mark HDTV showings), 
or c) if you're using current MythTV, set a negative channel priority on 
your SDTV sub channel or a positive priority on your HDTV sub channel.

FWIW, though, I have this specific situation with Nova on PBS.  Since I 
really like Nova episodes, and I want to see any of them that I haven't 
seen--even if I have to suffer through SDTV (which is actually better 
than NTSC ever was)--I set an any time/any channel rule for Nova.  I 
then created a "re-record SDTV episodes" Power/Custom Recording Rule 
that will record any HDTV showing of Nova for which I have an SDTV 
episode in current recordings.  There's a template for this in the 
Power/Custom Recording Rule editor.

Mike