[mythtv-users] Where are these settings (auto-flag and auto-expire)

[Brent Bolin]

That did it... Thanks

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:25 PM Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 19:02:23 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >disable auto-flag defaults  ( creating new scheds in mythweb should have
> >these set )
> >enable auto-expire defaults ( creating new scheds in mythweb should have
> >these set )
> >
> >I've compiled fixes-29 for ARM.  The new mythtv-setup interface is very
> >different.  Seem to recall options for the above in MythFrontend.  I don't
> >have any MythFrontends
> >
> >Somewhere within mythtv-setup or database?
>
> Those settings are found in the recording rule templates.  Unless you
> specify a template when you create or edit a recording rule, the
> settings are copied from the "Default (template)" rule.  To find this
> in mythtfrontend, you go to Manage Recordings > Recording Rules, then
> use the search feature (Ctrl-S) and search for "template".  The "Allow
> recordings to expire?" option is in "Storage Options" and the "Advert
> Flag new recordings" option is in "Post Processing".  The template
> rules do not seem to show up in the list in MythWeb, so I do not think
> they can be changed from there.  In the database, this SQL will list
> all your template rules:
>
> select * from record where title like '%(template%'\G
>
> The fields you want there are "autoexpire" and "autocommflag".
>
> Changing the templates only changes new recording rules that are made
> from those templates.  If you want to change all your old recording
> rules, you will need to use SQL in the database to do that.  And then
> all the old recordings made from those rules will still have whatever
> "autoexpire" option they acquired when the recording was made.
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