[mythtv-users] Number of Recordings to keep...

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Dec 17 14:58:19 UTC 2012


On 12/17/2012 07:00 AM, Jason Gauthier wrote:
> On 16.12.2012 23:57, Jason Gauthier wrote:
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>>    I enabled "Number of Recordings to Keep", along with "record new and expire old". I set it to two recordings.
>>> I then manually scheduled, through cron, a recording every hour.  The title stays the same, but the subtitle is different.
>>> I delete the old schedule when I create a new one, as to not clutter up my recording schedules.
>>>
>>> So, in effect, I have a new recording every hour.  I set "number of recordings to keep" to 2.  I currently have 4.
>>>
>>> My questions are:  How is this information gathered to determine how many recordings there are?
>>> Since I create a new schedule every hour, perhaps this method will not work?
>> Your example is for keeping 2 recordings of that one recording rule.
>> But if I understand correctly you only ever create one recording per rule, then delete the rule and create a new one, thus never reaching the point where something gets>deleted.
> And that makes sense.  Can I create a custom rule that records hourly?

Best bet it to explain what you're trying to achieve and we can tell you 
the best way to do so.

Mike



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