[mythtv-users] Weekly recording

[Karl Newman]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:29 AM, George Nassas <gnassas at mac.com> wrote:

> On 2013-10-25, at 6:48 AM, Stephen Robertson wrote:
>
> > For example if there were multiple episodes of the same show on the same
> day/week which one would it record?   If there were multiple broadcasts of
> the same episode then surely the duplicate matching would catch that
> irrespective of the recording rule.  And if it didn't because the data to
> make that determination wasn't there then surely the "record one showing
> every day" operation is even more undefined.  Or at the very least much
> less intuitive from the description given to the user.
>
> I think you have to back to the OP, Robin, and recall that in this case
> there is no episode information, only a generic description. But what you
> do know for sure is, for example, the 5pm broadcast is a new episode and
> the 11pm and 9am next day ones are repeats of that 5pm one. I agree that
> when you have identified episodes it doesn’t make much sense to use a
> day/week cycle, I just know not to use the recording rules that way.
>
> It seems to me that it’s unhelpful or confusing to have once daily and
> once weekly as classes of recording rule. They’re really a kind of
> duplicate detection method since we know that for such and such title all
> showings from time T to T+24h or T+7d are identical. That situation comes
> up regularly and in 0.27 there isn’t an easy way to describe it to the
> scheduler.
>
> In the meantime, if David is listening, it sounds like restoring the
> daily/weekly is just a matter of re-adding them to the appropriate combo
> box. Is that true? I can run a local patch to get a friend over a
> scheduling problem in the short term.
>
> - George
>

No, those options have now shifted to the "Filters" section. The "once
daily" is now called "This time", and the "once weekly" is now called "This
day and time" and according to the developers, it's more flexible with
minor variations in schedule than the old schedule options were.

Karl
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