[mythtv] Re: [mythtv-commits] mythtv commits (find daily/weekly)

[Chris Petersen]

> Added two new recording types, kFindDailyRecord and kFindWeeklyRecord.
> The new recording types are intended for daily and weekly programs
> which meet the following criteria.

Could someone straighten me out on these things?  I'm trying to add 
support to mythweb for such things, but with each new recording type, 
the SQL queries get more and more confusing.

I'd like to get a lot of this stuff updated and fixed before the .17 
release, and maybe it's just been a bad day (it has), but I can't make 
heads or tails about how to go about fixing this stuff.

I have a few areas of confusion:

Seems I basically need to know what's going on with the recordoverride 
table (since it doesn't seem to be getting used much in myth -- the 
record.type values of 7 and 8, what I call record and suppress, are used 
more often, or even exclusively -- is recordoverride deprecated?).

With the new stuff, I currently have queries that compare date/time/etc 
against the recording type to see if a particular show falls into a 
particular recording type -- it's a massive nasty query.  But with the 
new stuff, do I check +- 24 hours, or +- 12 hours?  +- 7 days, or 3.5 
days?  Or is it something more complicated, and if so, how do I pull 
this information out?  Is there a better way to do this WHOLE thing? 
Maybe I should just check each show against QUERY_GETALLPENDING?  Sounds 
like that might be the best way to do things, since it leaves all of 
that checking code in the backend (one place, less chance of mythweb 
calculating something incorrectly)

Going to give my brain a much-needed rest, but I may have more questions 
after these get answered.

-Chris

>   They usually don't have unique programids or descriptions.
> 
>   A "new" episode is shown at (or about) the same time for daily
>   programs or on the same day of the week and time for weekly
>   programs.
> 
>   The new episode is repeated one or more times throughout the next 24
>   hours for daily programs or seven days for weekly programs.
> 
> Because there are no unique programids or descriptions, Myth can't
> tell the multiple showings apart.  For these new recording types, Myth
> will automatically assign an artificial identifier to group together
> all shows in the defined interval.  Myth will then try to record one
> showing in each interval given other scheduling constraints.
> 
> The day of the week and time of the "new" episode are currently set
> when the recording rule is created and can't be changed.  Suggestions
> on how to make this changeable in the SR dialog are welcome.
> 
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