For The Record - The rule-based scheduling suite (4 Viewers)

[wunschkind]

you´re right


thank you and have a nice evening .... by the way: did you find out something about the day-checkbox-problem? are there changes coming?


thank you

wunschkind

 

[dvdfreak]

thank you and have a nice evening .... by the way: did you find out something about the day-checkbox-problem? are there changes coming?

Yes, this will be fixed in the next release, it was a low-level SQL problem.

 

[Midget]

A question:

In my system, everyday XMLTV grabs EPG data for the next 6 days. And after each run the data is imported in TvScheduler.
If I schedule a program for day 6 and (i.e.) on day 5 the new EPG data grabbed by XMLTV has that program with different timings, what does it record ? The old timings or the new timings ?

 

[dvdfreak]

In my system, everyday XMLTV grabs EPG data for the next 6 days. And after each run the data is imported in TvScheduler.
If I schedule a program for day 6 and (i.e.) on day 5 the new EPG data grabbed by XMLTV has that program with different timings, what does it record ? The old timings or the new timings ?

The new timings. Everything is always kept as up-to-date as possible, essential to a good scheduling algorithm

 

[Midget]

The new timings. Everything is always kept as up-to-date as possible, essential to a good scheduling algorithm

I've asked because sometimes I found some recordings with a title and a completely different content...
It seems to happen only on "record once" schedules, not on "record any time" schedules.
The "guilty" could be the TV network bitch, the web site that publish the EPG data or TvScheduler

 

[dvdfreak]

The new timings. Everything is always kept as up-to-date as possible, essential to a good scheduling algorithm

I've asked because sometimes I found some recordings with a title and a completely different content...
It seems to happen only on "record once" schedules, not on "record any time" schedules.
The "guilty" could be the TV network bitch, the web site that publish the EPG data or TvScheduler

A record once schedule, not to be confused with a manual schedule, will record a show around the normal beginning time.

I will need to check out if there may be a bug if the program is not found anymore at all. It's possible that I decided to record the original timeslot, just to make sure. If that's the case, that decision may not be so good, and may have to be considered a bug.

Keep an eye on it, something reproducable would be nice. You can always, for fun, mess with your XMLTV file and import it again, to see if things work as they should

 

[StaticMan]

How would that work? Per channel? Just the first showing with a certain title? Why not use the "Around time" rule then? Isn't that going to be much more accurate than just take the first showing at any time?

I ran into another reason for a once per day today.
If I setup a series to record on any channel, it'll record 6 times in a day if it's on 6 channels.
I can't just pick a specific channel, because some weeks it's not on all channels.

Okay, but once more I repeat my concern: what showing on that day would be the good one then? Simply the first? Could be that at 01:00 ay night there's re-runs of old episodes for example.

Doesn't the "New episodes only" rule help you?

The "good" showing would be the first one that matches criteria. I could setup an around time to fix the 01:00 time problem you're mentioning. What I'm seeing is a program on 6 channels (same episode) at 21:00 and TvS tries to record all them. I can't just specify one channel because some weeks it's not on a channel.

New episodes doesn't work since it's a TV3 import of the EPG (no rerun info).

 

[dvdfreak]

The "good" showing would be the first one that matches criteria. I could setup an around time to fix the 01:00 time problem you're mentioning. What I'm seeing is a program on 6 channels (same episode) at 21:00 and TvS tries to record all them. I can't just specify one channel because some weeks it's not on a channel.

If you turn on the around time rule, you will already get max one program per day (per channel). But from your explanation I seem to understand you want only one program recorded on any[/i] channel, hmmmmm... Let me think on that a bit

New episodes doesn't work since it's a TV3 import of the EPG (no rerun info).

That sucks.

Does anyone know if episode title or episode number information is available in the DVB-EPG stream? And if so, can someone fix the epg grabber in TVE3 then?

 

[gemx]

Sorry, these infos are not defined for DVB-EPG in general and i haven't found them in any private parts of provider specific fields at least not on ASTRA 19.2 E, which is the only sat i can tune to.
If you are aware of providers which broadcast these infos and how just let me know and i will see how to integrate it in TVE3

 

[dvdfreak]

Sorry, these infos are not defined for DVB-EPG in general and i haven't found them in any private parts of provider specific fields at least not on ASTRA 19.2 E, which is the only sat i can tune to.
If you are aware of providers which broadcast these infos and how just let me know and i will see how to integrate it in TVE3

Damn, that's bad news. Guess that's one big reason to prefer XMLTV data over DVB-EPG then. It's more of a hassle, you have to do the whole setup, but you get much richer info.

I suppose stuff like actors and directory is not available over DVB-EPG either? Just program title, time/duration and description then (more or less)?