[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #3196: Autoexpire and backend fail to heed maxnewest = 0, deletes old programs that shouldn't and records new ones
Stuart Auchterlonie
stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Thu Mar 15 22:10:30 UTC 2007
Subbyz wrote:
> But my expectation is that I don't expect shows to ever be automatically
> deleted when I've done just about everything I can settings-wise to ensure
> that they are not. I just don't want the scheduler to record new ones.
>
> Your way (as designed and currently implemented) is a fine way for it to
> operate, PROVIDED that there is some other reasonable and automatic way to
> keep the autoexpire code from deleting shows for a particular recording, NO
> MATTER WHAT. But there doesn't appear to be. Your suggestion of manually
> setting the preserve flag on every recording is neither reasonable nor
> automatic.
>
So setup the recording rule with
1. max episodes set
2. Don't record if this would exceed the max episodes
3. auto expire disabled.
then unless you delete a show, the scheduler cannot record a new one.
simple really.
Stuart
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