XRercord - drop one prending only?

[capone]

If I'm not mistaken, if you delete a recording, it will just return if you restart, or at the next EPG update. If that's true: Is there a way (or way to add) the ability to do a "Seen It" for a single reocrding (that is part of a reoccuring group), that doesn't mark it as watched (so the next occurance can be recorded)?

Zap2It has the episode of Lost scheduled for 3wks from now as being on tonight (next 3wks are actually repeats). If I just deleted it, it would have returned when I did a restart this afternoon. If I mark it as Seen It, I won't get it when it actually airs. If I suspend the Reoccuring, I may forget to turn it back on.

I believe you can edit a file manually to do this, but it may be nice addition via remote if possible.

Btw, did you get your asking for the house after all?

[jorm]

I just finished selling both houses last week, I got my money out. Before the hurricane. South florida only has small patches of power. No food or gas. I fled to orlando for the last week. Dont know for how long.

I thought when you deleted a pending recording gbpvr changed the status to status_deleted (6) in the database. That way it could check if it was deleted and not reschedule it. I have not tried it though.

You mention that you can edit a file manually to do this. If you tell me how you would do the modification I can add io to xrecord.

[capone]

I'm glad to hear you got clear both financially and for your own safety. It's great to see you back.

The edit file think I remember reading as a manual override, but I have to confess I can't remember where. It was in a post, and I'm not sure what to search for to find it. I will look around to see if I unsderstood it right.

For the delete thing, in this case, I just want to skip that recording. This comes up w/ other stuff, too. Sometimes it wants to do the 9pm recording, but I see that it is on at 1am, and I would rather get that on that eveing. If there were a "skip, get next" button, then it would still be scheduled, and just grab the next airing (like delete, but only for the single airing and exipres). In both cases, it's to get it to not delete or be marked as seen.

One thing I did notice is that I can't seem to get Scheduler to believe it can record dupes. In Zap, the new episodes of South Park all have the generic listing, so it looks like the same episode. I went back and edited to have it grab dupes. It still cleans them out for soem reason.

Anyway, and again, it's just good to see you back as well, along w/ the rest of the FL gang. Wait and get to this when you can really afford the time.

[KingArgyle]

For South Park you'll also need to change the UniqueID for those shows as well, as it checks the Uniqueid first, before it check for Title, SubTitle, and Description when checking for duplicates.

[capone]

But if you say you want dupilicates, does that matter? Shouldn't it just not check? What you're saying makes it sound like it's still evalulating previous recoerdings, when you may want to not to both and just record all.

Maybe the better question, what does setting Record Duplicates to True really do? I may just be misunderstanding what that does.

[KingArgyle]

In the PriorityRecording.xml for your show set.

Code:

<Duplicates>
    <Recorded>Yes</Recorded>
    <Scheduled>No</Scheduled>
</Duplicates>

Recorded determines whether a program is recorded if it has already been recorded in the past or not. Set this to Yes so that CDK Scheduler will record items it thinks it has already recorded.

Scheduled determines whether duplicates are scheduled during the week. If it already has scheduled the program earlier in the week, and it determines that the program is the same, if this option is set to No it won't schedule the later programs and you only get one program. Set it to Yes to allow it to schedule it again even if it has already determined that it was scheduled earlier.

In your case, I would probably recommend setting Recorded to Yes and Scheduled to No, but keep in mind you'll still need to change the UniqueId because Zap2It probably has these as the same uniqueId.

Another way to handle it is to narrow the scope down to a specific time range and set the Recorded and Scheduled options to Yes. This way the scheduler will only look in a specific time range for the shows.

I do this with a lot of my wife's programs she wants recorded from MTV, as they run the same shows over and over through out the week at various times. I just set the time range and limit the recorded shows to that time period.

[capone]

I think this is what I was talking about the w/ manual edits in some file. Is there some way this logic can be extended into XRecord?

It's not that the file editing is hard, but it makes it something I need to do the next time I go down to my system and edit across the network, rather than doing on the pvr itself (if you're having a remote-only relationship w/ the pvr).

Again, this begs the question, what does the "True" setting to recording dupes do? Is there a way to make this setting (or adding one) that would just override all checking for previosu recording activity, and just blindly follow the recording setup?

Just in case, I'm not looking to sound argurementative. I'm just trying to understand all this, and where it fits into exisiting functions and requests for new ones.

[KingArgyle]

If you set Recorded to True it will record regardless of whether it has previously recorded or not.

If you set Scheduled to True it will record regardless of whether it has already scheduled the program or not.

This is equivalant to manually setting the entries in the PriorityRecordings.xml to Yes or No under the duplicates section. In either case it uses the Zap2It guide data and the RecTracker data to determine whether something should be scheduled according to those two settings.

[capone]

Ah...ok...I'm understanding better where you're coming from. I'm confusing my utils. CDK is doing what it is supposed to, presumedly. It's rectracker that is cleaning up after it that must be removing it.

I guess what is needed is some way to override the watched value when you set a show to record dupes. So if you set to record dupes for a new show, does it not add those viewings to watched?

I was taking you advice about the manual recording this. It would be a nice way to combine scheduler and manual if you could do the adv scheduling, and drop the title, so it just becomes a manual recording (maybe you can do this when you add, but you can't when you update). Even better would be if it could include the title somehow after, so it displays normally in the recorded view.

[KingArgyle]

If you are using RecTracker with the Purge option, with the most recent version of CDK Scheduler you no longer need to use the Purge. In fact, it is recommended that you don't use the purge.

In the past CDK Scheduler was not handling the scheduling of duplicates correctly, that was fixed with the last release of XRecord.