[mythtv-users] Power recording rule for night time preference

[Johan]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/09/2010 02:29 PM, Johan wrote:
>> Tom Furie wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 09:13:40PM +0100, Johan wrote:
>>>> Since the price of electricity here is quite high (about 0.2$ per 
>>>> kWh)  and about 60% of that during nights and weekends I was 
>>>> wondering if I  could force MythTV to record preferably shows at 
>>>> night time, without  excluding those at daytime.
>>>>
>>>> Forcing the recording time to 7PM to 7AM excludes daytime showings.
>>>>
>>>> This is the behavior I would like to have:
>>>> If the show is aired during daytime, but within X amount of days 
>>>> (or  available listing days) also at nighttime then do not record 
>>>> the daytime  showing. Many shows are repeated during night time. 
>>> My first guess would be to set up two rules. One for night-time
>>> showings, with a high priority, the other for day-time showings, with a
>>> lower priority.
>> Thanks, if that works it was too simple.
>
> See my other response for an even simpler method.
>
>> I assumed priorities would only come into effect if there was a 
>> conflict.
>
> Nope.  Priorities always apply.  :)
My bad..
>
>> Now that I'm trying to edit the power search/recording rule I'm 
>> running in to all kinds of problems. Nothing to do with the rules, 
>> but with the edit box.
>>
>> After a bit of editing my cursor is not near the character I am 
>> typing (10 characters away), if I paste the example by pressing the 
>> OK key on my remote (can someone update the 
>> docs..http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html the "add this 
>> example" key does not exist anymore) the text is not visible in the 
>> box, or sometimes it is, but I can't get to the second line to edit. 
>> The cursor key and the enter key move to the next field not to the 
>> next line in the edit box.
>>
>> Even though the text is invisible, the rule tests ok. The text must 
>> be somewhere outside the screen. (Occasionally I see half a 
>> character, outside the box on the far lefthand side of the screen).
>>
>> Short queries seem to appear correct, but the ones that stretch over 
>> multiple lines have those issues.
>>
>> What is the trick here ?
>
> Write (the code to provide) support for a multiline text edit in 
> mythui and then submit the patch.  (Or wait for someone else to do it.)
Thanks. Not up to that yet, maybe one day. I assume this issue was 
brought up before, but escaped my attention.
It was also mentioned somewhere that I could use Emacs key Combo's 
(Ctrl-n to move to next line) in the edit box. Guess that was before 
MythUI implementation.

I'll live with the limitation until I can fix it, or work around it.


>
> Mike
Johan