[mythtv-users] Question about Auto-expire

[Martin Moores]

On Sep 12, 2012 5:48 PM, "Robert Dege" <livemotion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to record and keep 20 episodes of Sesame Street on my
mythbox at all times.  As new episodes are recorded, old episodes can be
deleted.
>
> I tried to set this up in the Recording Schedule by enabling auto-expire,
and setting "No. of recordings to keep" to 20.  However, based on the
documentation, auto-expire works primarily on disk space usage.  Plus, once
20 episodes of the show have been recorded, mythtv won't record anymore
until I manually delete the old episodes.
>
> Am I missing something?  Is it possible to implement this setup?
>
> MythTV Version : v0.25
> MythTV Branch : fixes/0.25
> Network Protocol : 72
> Library API : 0.25.20120408-1
> QT Version : 4.8.1
>
>
> Thank you
>
> -Robert
>
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You need to check "record new and expire old" in mythweb, or set "max
newest" in the frontend menu to "delete oldest if this would exceed the max
episodes"

cheers

Martin
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