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Re: Ticket #7389: schedule is set to 10 recordings max but myth keeps recording more

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ryan.goat at gmail

Oct 22, 2009, 7:30 AM

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Re: Ticket #7389: schedule is set to 10 recordings max but myth keeps recording more

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:01 AM, MythTV <mythtv [at] cvs> wrote:
> #7389: schedule is set to 10 recordings max but myth keeps recording more
> ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
> Reporter: ryan.goat@… | Owner: gigem
> Type: defect | Status: closed
> Priority: minor | Milestone: unknown
> Component: MythTV - Scheduling | Version: head
> Severity: medium | Resolution: invalid
> Mlocked: 0 |
> ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
>
> Comment(by stuartm):
>
> Breaking the rules on discussions in tickets when they belong on the
> mailing list, so I apologise in advance.
>
> I think it's important to explain why the max episodes is tied to the
> recording rule and not the title/programme id. Lets say you are a big fan
> of Scrubs, you want to recorded the entire new series on Thursday nights
> at 8pm, so you setup a timeslot recording with no episode limit. You also
> like watching old repeats from the early seasons which are shown every day
> at 3pm so you setup another daily timeslot rule, but because these are
> repeats you don't want to record every last one and you set a max episode
> limit of 5. If the episode limit was based on the title or programme id
> the second rule would quickly prevent the new series from being recorded
> (or cause the episodes to expire) and that clearly isn't what the user
> expects to happen.
>
> This ticket highlights why it's better to modify an old rule instead of
> deleting it and creating a new one.
>

I hear what you are saying but the situation you outline is not the
behavior I meant to suggest would would be preferable. I will try to
clarify how I think it should work. The episode limit should be a per
recording rule setting. When Myth schedules recordings based on rules
that have an episode limit the limit would be compared against the
number of episodes of the title in current recordings at that time.

Here is how your example of two Scrubs recording rules would work:
The first rule has no episode limit. It will record every showing in
the weekly time slot (regardless of any episode limit in the second
rule). The second rule has a five episode limit. So it will only
record a rerun if the total number of Scrubs episodes in current
recordings (new + reruns) is less than five. So you will get the
entire new season of Scrubs, but you will only get reruns if there is
currently a low number of Scrubs episodes waiting to be watched.

I realize this would not easily work together with the "record new and
expire old" setting.
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fracmak at gmail

Oct 22, 2009, 8:09 AM

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Re: Ticket #7389: schedule is set to 10 recordings max but myth keeps recording more [In reply to]

I think it makes more sense the way it's set up now. Think of it as the
options you set for a recording rule only apply to the recording rule you're
editing. I know you might want it to work with all programs, but imagine
that you set up 2 recording rules, 1 keeps all episodes, 1 only keeps 5.
Well, when it comes time to auto-expire recordings, which recording rule
does it honor? The one saying to keep all the recordings? or the one that
only keeps 5? This is a UI nightmare as well as a logic nightmare to try and
decide what the user intended. Under the scenario you described below, the
current system would work exactly as intended. You'd get the full new season
of scrubs, but it would only keep 5 reruns, then wipe them from the system.
Or if you want to only ever have 5 scrub episodes on your mythbox, set up
the recording rule to be extremely vague and record any episode on any
channel anytime and then set a recording limit
Jay

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:30 AM, ryan patterson <ryan.goat [at] gmail>wrote:
>
> I hear what you are saying but the situation you outline is not the
> behavior I meant to suggest would would be preferable. I will try to
> clarify how I think it should work. The episode limit should be a per
> recording rule setting. When Myth schedules recordings based on rules
> that have an episode limit the limit would be compared against the
> number of episodes of the title in current recordings at that time.
>
> Here is how your example of two Scrubs recording rules would work:
> The first rule has no episode limit. It will record every showing in
> the weekly time slot (regardless of any episode limit in the second
> rule). The second rule has a five episode limit. So it will only
> record a rerun if the total number of Scrubs episodes in current
> recordings (new + reruns) is less than five. So you will get the
> entire new season of Scrubs, but you will only get reruns if there is
> currently a low number of Scrubs episodes waiting to be watched.
>
> I realize this would not easily work together with the "record new and
> expire old" setting.
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