CDK Scheduler

[KingArgyle]

CTRL-Y from the Scheduler screen, or the Yellow Button on the remote for moving the priorities around.

[drbenjamin]

Hi

I've been trying to figure out how to set priorities for recurring recordings with no luck so far. When you say "Scheduler" screen, which one is that? I have pushed the yellow button in essentially every screen I can find, but no joy!

I have the XSuite plugin installed, and I think that means that CDKScheduler is also installed. Thanks for any help!

[fla]

Inside XRecord, one of the main buttons on the left is called "Scheduler" which is a GUI front end for CDK Scheduler from which you can add, view and update CDK's advanced scheduler's entries. In XSearch and XGuide, whenever you see a menu item called "Advanced", that's also a the CDK front end. In those screens you have the choice of Basic, More and Power mode which allow editing more and more CDK scheduler parameters. If one parameter is missing (I don't see priority there), you can always manually edit PriorityRecordings.xml by hand. I don't know the yellow button trick for setting priorities myself.

[KingArgyle]

Sorry for the late response, been traveling for work. When you select the Scheduler button, this will bring up the list of Priority Recordings controled by CDK Scheduler. As you move up and down the list, if you want to move it higher in the priority, find the recording you want move, select the Yellow button or CTRL+Y, move the program to where in the list you want it to be, and select CTRL+Y again to have it saved in the new position.

[drd]

The XSuite has been working great for me, but I'm having a hard time understanding what Suspend does. I'm guessing that it stops any prioritizing or recordings of a program.

I Suspended "Nature" with the Scheduler in Xrecord. I did a "Empty EPG" with in Config to clean out any pending records, let the scheduled EPG update run, and here's what I see in the new recording.log:

****
Nature is suspended

Nature is being recorded from 5/3/2008 1:30:00 AM to 5/3/2008 2:30:00 AM on capture source 2

checkScheduleConflict: Program Conflict
Current Program: Late Night With Conan O'Brien Date: 5/3/2008 12:37 AM
Priority Program: Nature Date: 5/3/2008 1:30 AM
No capture source with the required channel enabled found for Late Night With Conan O'Brien
****

Can anyone give me a better idea of what Suspend does?

Thanks,
DrD

[fla]

Did you delete any pending and reoccurring recordings from the Pending and Reoccurring screens in XRecord? If you suspend an advanced recording in the Scheduler screen then CDK Scheduler shouldn't add any new Pending recordings for that entry when CDK Scheduler is run.

[drd]

Yes. I did an "Empty EPG" from the Config tool and it deletes all pending recordings. I've had to do this in the past when a broadcaster (WGBH PBS was the most recent) drastically changed their schedule.

I'm going to delete "Nature" in Scheduler. That should be fairly decisive . Thanks much for your help.

[fla]

I just tested the suspend feature just to make sure this wasn't a bug. I created a scheduler entry that searched by title for "shark". Running priorityrecording.exe the first time shows that it gets recorded. I then, deleted it from the pending screen, suspended it and ran priorityrecording.exe again. The result was that the suspended entry did not generate any new recordings as expected. Note that in the Scheduler screen, a suspended entry is displayed as such eg. "Any time - Suspended".

Code:

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>PriorityRecording.exe
CDK Priority Recording Scheduler.
Version 1.0.1
...using System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteFactory DB Provider Factory
shark has 2 potential recording(s).
Failed restriction looking for channel :21
Shark is being recorded from 5/6/2008 9:00:00 PM to 5/6/2008 10:00:00 PM on capture source 1

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>PriorityRecording.exe
CDK Priority Recording Scheduler.
Version 1.0.1
...using System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteFactory DB Provider Factory
shark is suspended

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>

If I omit the step of deleting the pending recording I get the following output that looks a lot like yours. This is the expected behavior of the suspend feature.

Code:

C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>PriorityRecording.exe
CDK Priority Recording Scheduler.
Version 1.0.1
...using System.Data.SQLite.SQLiteFactory DB Provider Factory
shark is suspended
Shark is being recorded from 5/6/2008 9:00:00 PM to 5/6/2008 10:00:00 PM on capture source 1
C:\Program Files\devnz\gbpvr>