Hi Christian,
On Thu, 29 May 2008 04:00:41 am Christian Wieninger wrote:
Hi Mike,
sorry for the late response.
No problem at all, I guess you've got a life outside of supporting epgsearch :)
Mike Lampard wrote:
Hi All,
I have a channel with identical EPG info for the same program, regardless of episode. Often the program I want to record is repeated every six hours or so, but depending on the day it may be every 12 hours or more (its somewhat random) with a new episode sometime after midnight.
Please let me repeat this to be sure I got it right: The EPG is the same for all episodes and they are broadcasted at no fixed time and randomly repeated. Correct?
Correct, with a new episode airing sometime after midnight.
Using EpgSearch, is there a way to force a single recording in a search within a specified period, without knowing the exact time that the 1st episode is recorded _successfully_? i.e: allowing a maximum number of successful (non-conflicting) timers/day per search?
When there's no information how to distinguish the episodes and their repeats I doubt that there's a way to handle this. Do you have any ideas (and even better also a suggestion how to represent this in the search timer edit menu?)
Perhaps adding an option under the "Use as search timer"->User-defined to only record 1 episode between two customisable times?
Is there a way for EpgSearch to verify a particular recording/timer has completed successfully within the last 'X' hours (ie time since 00:00), and if so disabling any remaining timers created by that search from the time of detection until 23:59?
2-4 copies of the same episode if no conflicts exist. Like a 'One-Shot' timer that resets itself at midnight (or other settable period) instead of deleting itself.
This 'one shot timer' could be a way to handle it, but is this sufficient? Do the above episodes have a guaranteed interval, after which a new episode is broadcasted?
Yes. It seems that there is a new episode once per day, with 4 or 5 repeats of that same episode later that day.
Best regards, Christian
Cheers Mike