[mythtv-users] Custom Schedule Help

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 3/11/2007 12:26 PM Bruce Markey said the following:

>Drew Tomlinson wrote:
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>>http://drew.mykitchentable.net/Temp/Joe_Brown.html
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>That was illuminating.
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>>>Yes. I think what you really want is to tell myth that both of
>>>these channels carry "KMAX". That will say that these are both
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>>>from the same station and only one KMAX show at 12:00 then one
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>>>at 12:30 need to be recorded. You can simply set an All rule or
>>>Channel for KMAX and it should just work. Which channel is chosen
>>>first then becomes the question.
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>>Yes, you have guessed correctly again.  :)  So are you saying that I 
>>should edit the sourcid field of the channels table so that my digital 
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>I should have specified that the callsign field for chanid
>2311 should be edited to change it from "KMAX-1" to "KMAX"
>so that it matches the callsign for chanid 1031. Do not edit
>the sourceid.
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>>stations match the regular local stations when programming is 
>>identical?  I think that *IS* what I really want.  Is there anything I 
>>need to do other than edit the table directly?
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>The only change you need to make is to match up the "callsign"s
>where there are channels (frequencies) from both sources that
>carry programming from the same station (building). I'm guessing
>that there are more stations like KMAX where you receive the
>station from both DirecTV and ATSC channels.
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>You can edit the callsign, and most other attributes of any
>channel in the mythtv-setup Channel Editor. In current SVN
>you can use mythfrontend to go to TV Settings->Recording
>Priorities->Channel Priorities and press SELECT on any channel
>to edit it's parameters. Mythweb also has a page for editing
>channels.
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>>It helps a lot. In fact, your suggestion answers another question I 
>>have.  I've been wondering if there was a way to prefer one tuner over 
>>another for individual shows.  For example, when I know the show is not 
>>in HD, I'd rather have the DirecTV tuner record the show as it doesn't 
>>take up nearly as much disk space as the pcHDTV tuner.  I think the 
>>above will solve that "want".
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>Right. This is the point of the CNN Shuttle Launch examples
>near the end. Not only can you set a rule to prefer the HD
>input if you expect the show to be in HD but you can let the
>zap2it info determine if any show from the station is HD and
>should be recorded from the HD input or if you can save
>space and record from DirecTV.
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Thank you so much for your help.  I finally had some time to work 
through my schedule and things are working well.

Drew

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