[mythtv-users] scheduler not trying hard enough?

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Thu Nov 29 12:39:32 UTC 2012


On 29/11/12 12:12, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have brought this up before and I was told that the scheduler is
> definitely not "exhaustive" in finding the best fit.  I was also told
> at the time that I could just manually override the scheduler when I
> could find a fit that was better.  While this is doable most of the
> time. unfortunately this is not always the case.
>
> Here's a case in point:
>
> I  Austin & Ally - Zaliens & Cloud Wa      51 TFC     05 20:00-20:30  3 23 23  A 23 -2
> I  Whitney - Sex, Lies, and Alibis     102-11 WGRZ    05 20:00-20:30  2 17 15  A 17 -2
> I  The Middle - Christmas Help        102-936 WWTI    05 20:00-20:30  2 16 14  A 16 -2
> I  Survivor: Philippines               102-77 WWNY    05 20:00-21:00  2 13 13  A 13 -2
> I  The X Factor                        100-39 CJOH    05 20:00-22:00  2 18 18  A 18 -2
> I  Guys With Kids                      102-11 WGRZ    05 20:30-21:00  2 16 14  A 16 -3
> I  The Neighbors - Merry Crap-Mas     102-936 WWTI    05 20:30-21:00  2 17 15  A 17 -3
> I  Chicago Fire - Leaving the Station   100-3 CIII    05 21:00-22:00  2 13 13  A 13 -3
> I  Rookie Blue - Class Dismissed           42 SHCASEC 05 21:00-22:00  3 23 23  A 23 -3
> I  Suburgatory - Krampus                    9 WWTI    05 21:31-22:00  1 24 24  A 24 -3
> I  Nashville - Where He Leads Me      102-936 WWTI    05 22:00-23:00  2 13 13  A 13 -3
> I  Duck Dynasty - I'm Dreaming of a R      19 ARTSC   05 22:00-23:01  3 23 23  A 23 -2
>
> Tuners 13-17 are actually a single digital tuner, as are 18-22.  Tuners
> 23 and 24 are both analog tuners where 23 is the preferred one to use
> since it is output from a DTA and 24 is raw analog.
>
> As you can can see, using tuner 24 for Suburgatory @ 22:00 is less
> than ideal.  That could be solved quite easily by recording Chicago
> Fire @ 21:00 on the already tuned "100" mplex on tuner "18-22" (for
> The X Factor) rather than assigning it to the second digital tuner
> (the 13-17) tuner just to tune into the same digital mplex that the
> "18-22" tuner is already tuned to.
>
> But making this kind of change is not something I am able to do
> through MythWeb.  I have no way of telling the scheduler to put
> a given program on a different tuner.

Manually, Upcoming recordings > E > Schedule options > Prefer input X ?
>
> So this is clearly a case where I would like the scheduler to be a
> bit more exhaustive and try just a few more combinations to get it
> right.
>
> Or maybe there is something I am [not] doing to better tell the
> scheduler that tuner 23 is less preferred than the digital tuners
> and tuner 24 is less preferred than 23 so that it puts combinations
> using those tuners lower on the list of combinations to try?
>
> Thoughts?
> b.
>
>
>
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