[mythtv-users] HBO Latino, how to manage Spanish language versions of stations

[Steven Adeff]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM, David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:45:56PM -0400, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > My parents get HBO and have HBO's various "Latino" stations as well. Seeing
> > as how we're Latino, and they speak Spanish fluently, they would like to
> > keep the channels in their lineup but not have recording schedules be
> > allowed to "hit" those stations unless they specifically ask to record
> > something on it.
>
> I had hoped to add a new feature which would allow this, as well as
> easier access to other filtering, by now, but it didn't happen and
> probably won't now for at least a couple more months.  That is, unless
> someone wants to write the UI part since the most time consuming part
> for me will be to add a new MythUI screen to the schedule editor.

If I had the time and knowledge! sadly I am lacking in both right now...

> > The thing is, this would require either setting other HBO
> > recordings to a specific station and miss possible repeats on the other HBO
> > english stations, or have to manually disable the Latino station hits.
>
> Are you saying you have all of your HBOs set to the same callsign,
> e.g.  HBO, HBO2, HBO Espanol, etc. are all set to "HBO"?  If so, that
> might work right most of them time, but it can and will lead to
> undefined and unexpected results in some cases.  Two or more channels
> should only be set to the same callsign if their schedules are
> virtually identical.

no, the call signs are all different. BUT HBO replay's shows on any of
their stations. So if HBO airs it, the repeats will be on HBO2, HBO
Pacific, etc, etc. So I can't just say record only on "HBO" or the
scheduler won't see that a better time is being replayed on "HBO 2".
But it also means "HBO Latino" is an option to be recorded on as well.


> > I've tried lowering their RecPriority to -1 and have the other HBO's to +1,
> > but that doesn't seem to have had any effect.
>
> That was going to be my first suggestion.  Why doesn't it work for
> you?

Why? dunno, but when I do that and force a scheduler rerun it still
picks up the channels set to -1.

I did notice that the  EP # for the english and spanish version are
different, but it looks like Myth only uses the Title for matches =/

thanks for the help!

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Steve
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