[mythtv-users] scheduling question

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Glenn Harris
<gharris+list+mythtv at eklo.com> wrote:
> This morning I was tweaking priorities and schedules so I could record
>  as much baseball and new shows that are starting back up in the coming
>  weeks (finally!).  I saw a bunch of old episodes of The Office airing
>  this Thursday and wanted to try to catch them as well.  As always, the
>  easiest solution to all of this would be to throw more money at it and
>  buy another tuner, but in lieu of that, I played with the schedules
>  and ran into this issue:
>
>  I set up a recording schedule to record all episodes of The Office
>  airing on WBALDT (the HD CBS affiliate here) that are not currently
>  recorded - with a priority of 0.
>  I set up another recording schedule to record all episodes of The
>  Office on any channel that have not already been recorded - with a
>  priority of 5.
>
>  This gives me mostly what I want.  The Office only records old shows
>  when it does not conflict with anything else - and it only records
>  re-runs from CBS (which are fairly infrequent, as opposed to TBS which
>  seemingly shows 10 a day).  And new episodes get priority over a lot
>  of the other fluff that I scheduled during the writers' strike.
>
>  The only problem is that it wants to record the new episode from the
>  non-HD channel WBAL, since it apparently sees the WBALDT showing as a
>  lower priority.
>
>  Am I going about this the wrong way?  Is there an easier/better way to
>  set this up?
>
>  Thanks for any help!
>  --Glenn

I've done similar, though here is how I went about doing it...

I assigned all my HD channels with a higher priority, so I used "10"
(in case I decide to later do some other channel priority
assignments....). Then I set one schedule to record only new episodes
of the shows, specifically on the HD channel with a high priority (in
my case I choose between 15-25 depending on how much I want the show
compared to other new shows). Then I set a schedule to record reruns
on "any channel" with a low priority (0-10 again depending on...).
Then I set up my sports schedules (basically all the futbol/soccer we
watch) with a really high priority (40).
now granted, we have 3 QAM tuners for OTA HDTV channels and two cable
boxes connected via firewire for everything else, so we rarely have
conflicts which is nice, but this arrangement lets us record reruns of
some shows (southpark, simpsons, etc) while making sure to nab the new
episodes on their first airing (and with shows like simpsons on
Fox-HD).

-- 
Steve
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