[mythtv-users] Bugs(?) creating Manual Schedules for daily channel record in 0.27

[David Engel]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:09:23PM +0000, NickS wrote:
> > When trying to create new Manual Schedules for daily channel record, I get
> > this strange behaviour:
> > 
> > 1) In Myth Frontend when trying to create a new Manual Schedule I can only
> > select channels 1,2,3 although I have many more numbered visible channels
> > that I can watch and see in the EPG Schedule).
> > 
> > A workaround seems to be to create the Manual Schedule in MythWeb where I
> > can select from all my channels. However...
> > 
> > 2) The resulting Recording Rule viewed in Myth Frontend shows "Any" channel
> > (although the correct channel is shown in MythWeb's list of Recording
> > Schedules, and also in the Frontend's list of Upcoming Recordings).
> > 
> > 3) When creating the Manual Schedule in MythWeb I tick the "This Time" and
> > "This Channel" filter options, but these settings are lost (shown blank)
> > every time edit that particular Recording Schedule in MythWeb. These filter
> > options are also blank when I examine the corresponding Recording Rule in
> > Myth Frontend.
> > 
> > 4) In the Frontend, when any Recording Rule has a "Will Record" status the
> > "Will Record" date shown in the rule information doesn't correspond to the
> > next scheduled recording date in the corresponding Upcoming Recordings.
> > 
> > I'm guessing these could be bugs, or could just be configuration issues (I
> > recently upgraded my Mythbuntu 12.04 backend (and Ubuntu 12.04 frontend
> > clients) from MythTV v0.25 to v0.27).
> > 
> > Does anyone else experience similar issues?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Nick
> 
> Further to the previously reported suspected bugs, it also seems that when creating a manual recording schedule in MythWeb, when a subtitle is specified (replacing the default "Use date/time") that subtitle appears to be ignored in subsequent recordings made by that recording rule.

Your problems sound so bizarre, that I'd look for version and schema
mismatches first among the MythTV binaries, libraries and mythweb.
Regarding your last comment, it looks like mythweb has misled you.
For manual recordings, the subtitle is always replaced with the
scheduled recording starttime.

David
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David Engel
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