Recurring recordings

[dsreyn]

I have a couple of comments about settings for recurring recordings using the web browser interface to my Docker container.

First, if I have an existing recurring recording where I picked "Advanced" as the recording type, I'm unable to modify the rule once it has been saved.  If I select the existing recurring rule, I can make changes to the "Advanced" field while the dialog box is open, but when I click "Save", any changes to that field are lost.  The only way to change one of these recordings seems to be to delete the old one and start over.

The other thing is, the Post-Padding setting is a drop-down list with a maximum setting of 60 minutes.  For most things this is fine, but I would like to be able to extend it further for recording baseball games.  Between rain delays, extra innings, and games that just drag on forever, an extra 60 minutes sometimes isn't enough.  Would it be possible to increase the limit, or to make it a box where the user can just type in a number?  It looks like I can probably modify it by editing the npvr.db3 file once the rule is in place, but that doesn't really seem like a great way to do it.

Doug

[mvallevand]

There are several report open on not being able to modify advanced recordings and your other request was already requested too. I was thinking of opening an issue and request list on github but I wonder if people would look at it?

For sports extending have a look at the Nextend addon.

Martin

[sub]

I have a couple of comments about settings for recurring recordings using the web browser interface to my Docker container.

First, if I have an existing recurring recording where I picked "Advanced" as the recording type, I'm unable to modify the rule once it has been saved.  If I select the existing recurring rule, I can make changes to the "Advanced" field while the dialog box is open, but when I click "Save", any changes to that field are lost.  The only way to change one of these recordings seems to be to delete the old one and start over.

This is a known bug. It's been fixed for the next release.

The other thing is, the Post-Padding setting is a drop-down list with a maximum setting of 60 minutes.  For most things this is fine, but I would like to be able to extend it further for recording baseball games.  Between rain delays, extra innings, and games that just drag on forever, an extra 60 minutes sometimes isn't enough.  Would it be possible to increase the limit, or to make it a box where the user can just type in a number?  It looks like I can probably modify it by editing the npvr.db3 file once the rule is in place, but that doesn't really seem like a great way to do it.

I liked the visual consistency of using the same type as other controls on that page, so it's a drop down rather than text entry. I've bumped it up to 120 minutes for the next build. I can look into making the max value configurable at some point.

[dsreyn]

For sports extending have a look at the Nextend addon.

Is Nextend available for Docker?  I thought it was Windows-only (at least, that's the only thing I see on the Wiki page).

Doug

[mvallevand]

The wiki is version v4, but there is a thread on it here https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59658 but I haven't bothered trying to document it in Docker. If you are interest join the thread

Martin

[pkscout]

Ha! Another Docker person wanting to use NextEnd. I just posted a bunch of Docker related questions about NextEnd in the thread Martin mentioned.