[mythtv-users] How to record a TV serial

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Stephan Seitz
<stse+mythtv at fsing.rootsland.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 09:11:22AM +0200, Karl Dietz wrote:
>>
>> Are you setting up a rule to a specific time? looking at the guide e.g.
>> Galileo is +/- 1 minute in the evening and +/-3 minutes in the morning.
>
>
> Yes, the rule is to record daily at this time. I would wish Mythtv would be
> more tolerant to such divergences. The title of the programme is the same.
> And I set the options so that the recordings starts 5 minutes earlier and
> stops 10 minutes later. This should always match.
>
>
>> Your recording rules should be "record all" for both shows. If you have
>> anything else you are doing something wrong.
>> ("record all on this channel" would work, too. But I avoid it to keep
>> things simple. e.g. when recording crime series that run on ZDF with
>> repeats on ZDFneo)
>
>
> Okay, I tried it with taff. I switched to „record all on this channel” and
> all taff shows are shown. Sadly the description is the same for all episodes
> (at least today), so the recurrence check deactivates all recordings.
> Besides that I have now the nocturnal shows in the recording list as well
> which is annoying because the backend isn’t running at night.
>
> From my point of view I don’t like this. What I’m missing is the ability to
> look for programmes in the programming guide and use the data for manual
> recordings without switching menus. But thanks for your help.

So you think it is mythtv's fault that your guide data does not
distinguish between episodes.

Try playing with the  duplicate matching rules - "none" should record
every episode.