CDK Scheduler Examples

[jksmurf]

Just to be clear, I was only talking about the "Record ALL showings of a TV show on ANY channel" part of the request. I don't know what else CDKScheduler does, but I'm guessing more than just that.

OK, fair enough.

Are you aware that I already implemented priority control on the 'reoccurring' list of the Recordings screen?

No, I wasn't aware of this. I'll need to have a wee look. :o

k.

[KingArgyle]

Also, manual maintenance of the files isn't necessary anymore, especially with the improvements Fla has done to the XRecord suite.

[pvrtinkerer]

Also, manual maintenance of the files isn't necessary anymore, especially with the improvements Fla has done to the XRecord suite.

Is there a way to rearrange the priorities in Xrecord's scheduler without manually editing the PriorityRecording.xml files, just like sub's FF and RW method of rearranging priorities? I've not found documentation on it.

[KingArgyle]

I believe this is the Yellow button or CTRL-Y. Just go to the listing of Priority Recordings, and press the yellow button, use the up and down arrows to move it to where you want in the list, and press the yellow button to save it again.

[pvrtinkerer]

Bingo! Thanks for the pointer. Is there any comprehensive doc for the xrecord package? I recall seeing a way to make the program download pictures to represent the shows... but now I can't seem to find it again...

[MichaelColey]

How does CDK Scheduler determine what is a duplicate? Is it anything that's ever been recorded before, or just something that's not currently in the Recordings? For the kids' shows, I'd like to always have the 5 or 10 most recently aired episodes for some variety. If something was recorded, watched, and deleted six months ago, I don't mind if it's recorded again. If I already have a copy in Recordings, I don't want another.

Is there anything that can be done to treat reruns and new programs separately? For instance, King of Queens is starting back up this week. I like to keep 10 unique reruns on the PVR (and reruns air several times a day, so it cycles pretty quick), but I'd also like to keep all new episodes from this season until I watch them. They will get mixed in with the reruns, though, and may get purged before I get a chance to watch them. I guess I could bump up the number to keep, but is there another solution?

[smeghead]

Please excuse my ignorance but now that priority recording is part of the main part of gbpvr, what does CDKScheduler do extra?
Also, does XRecord show the priority list that is part of sub's implementation?

[KingArgyle]

CDK Scheduler still gives you finer grain control of scheduling your recordings. You can set keyword searches for it to schedule (on any combination of Title, Subtitle, and/or Description). Allows for range base recording (i.e. start scheduling on a certain date, and stop on a end date). You can combine any type of restriction based recording. Schedule shows to only occur on certain tuners, on certain days, schedule duplicates, automatically handle conflicts, and more. You may also suspend a recording without actually deleting it from the scheduler.

With priority based recording now in GBPVR many users many no longer need the benefit that CDK Scheduler provided, but there are still several other useful scheduling features that sub doesn't have time or feel the need to have in the core system.

Besides, the way CDK Scheduler is structured, it's XML file could easily be incorporated into other systems. It is after all just a file that describes recordings.

[KingArgyle]

How does CDK Scheduler determine what is a duplicate? Is it anything that's ever been recorded before, or just something that's not currently in the Recordings? For the kids' shows, I'd like to always have the 5 or 10 most recently aired episodes for some variety. If something was recorded, watched, and deleted six months ago, I don't mind if it's recorded again. If I already have a copy in Recordings, I don't want another.

Is there anything that can be done to treat reruns and new programs separately? For instance, King of Queens is starting back up this week. I like to keep 10 unique reruns on the PVR (and reruns air several times a day, so it cycles pretty quick), but I'd also like to keep all new episodes from this season until I watch them. They will get mixed in with the reruns, though, and may get purged before I get a chance to watch them. I guess I could bump up the number to keep, but is there another solution?

CDK Scheduler relies on a XRecord utility called RecTracker to keep track of duplicates. By adding rectracker to PostProcessing.bat, it will add the show to the data base. CDK Scheduler will then check that database to determine if it's already recorded the show. This relies on a combination of Title, SubTitle, and Description and really works well for XMLTV sources that have good sources, may or maynot work well depending on the source of the listings.

It doesn' care about first runs or re-runs it just cares whether the show has been previously recorded. For keeping a specified number of recordings then I recommend looking at MaxRecordings which may or may not meet your needs. Since CDK Scheduler doesn't have built in recordings management (i.e. number of copies to keep) and doesn't use the built in GBPVR management, MaxRecordings may be an alternative.

You can expliciting control whether it will try to schedule duplicates or record duplicates. Schedule duplicates are good for when there is a conflict with an existing show.. Record Duplicates will record shows that are already in the RecTracker database. Toggling these values gives you control on a show by show basis.

[KingArgyle]

Bingo! Thanks for the pointer. Is there any comprehensive doc for the xrecord package? I recall seeing a way to make the program download pictures to represent the shows... but now I can't seem to find it again...

I believe that is also Ctrl-Y but in the Pending or Recorded screens.