Kartsa wrote:
I don't know about other countries but in finland often programs have reruns within few days causing some autotimer to timer same event twise. This is quite usual especially with series.
So I wonder if it would be a good idea or even feasible to have weekday selection in autotimer setup?
"Advanced" timer programming is the domain of Master-Timer. http://mt.citd.de
One of it's many feature is to restrict timers to specific weekdays.
Or, if the EPG-Data is good(tm) (meanes: has a meaningful subtitle, i.o.w. the title of the episode), Master-Timers "done"-feature removes any (Master-Timer-)timers that entered the "done"-list which are still programmed in VDR the next time master-timer is started. This makes sure that a specific episode is never recorded again(*). Great to record whole series, without recording an episode twice(*2), or recording the rerun if the first attempt failed. :-)
I've recorded about 5 thousand(!) series and movies in 4 years. Workes great as long as the EPG-(or secondary-source-)data is good. :-) (Btw. I'd say that i'm a "heavy user". Converted into autotimers i would currently have about 450 autotimers).
*: As long as the EPG-Data of immediate or later(i mean much later, like month/years later when the whole series reruns) reruns match with the already recorded one, if the EPG-data is garbage there is nothing Master-Timer could do.
*2: Personally i've only encountered a single series which has the same episode-title for 2 different episodes, luckily i realised that in time to remove the entry from the done-file.
Bis denn