Conflicts - Shows that will NEVER be recorded...

[jazzmanjac]

I think it would be great if GBPVR could tell you which shows will never get recorded.

Let's say you "Season Record" X show first. Then you "Season Record" Y show next or later. If both of those programs only have one time slot, Y will never get recorded. (I can see one exception; X gets preempted by a special program.)

Here's where this becomes useful.... If you "Season Record" a program -- be it X or Y -- by channel or time slot (as is the current configuration) AND either X or Y is available on another channel/time slot, then you could go back and choose another
channel/time slot. For example, X-Files is on at least four different channels in my area at varying times. If I choose the wrong channel/time slot, then it never gets recorded.

I guess we could take this further by either "Season Recording" a program by title on any channel, or suggest other channels/time slots for the program. The suggestions could be based on current "Season Recordings" as to not conflict with other programs.

Now that I think about it, one could "Season Record" a program on all possible channels manually. (Now we get into disk space usage problems by recording the same program several times over possibly.)

At any rate it would be nice to have this intelligence built in. Just a crazy thought....

J

[KingArgyle]

You may want to check the External Recording Manger thread out in the Developers forum. I'm working on priority recordings, which allow you give a recording a priority, and then the program schedules the recordings based on your settings. It also currently scans all channels, but will in the future have the ability to narrow down to just a certain channel, and time range. It's very early alpha, and I think I fixed the last big bug causing two programs to be scheduled at the same time.