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.
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?
I know that I can set a timer to record from (say) 12am to 12pm, but it would be great if there is a way to guarantee a single recording regardless of whether other timers take precedence or EPG similarity, when multiple opportunities for a successful record exist in a day, without ending up with 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.
Many thanks to Klaus for VDR and all those people who've taken the time to write and support plugins and patches, especially EPGSearch by Mike Constabel and GraphLCD by Andreas Regel, who succeeded in making me a TV junkie when so many others (including myself) have failed.... :)
Regards Mike
Hi Mike,
sorry for the late response.
Mike Lampard wrote:
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?
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?)
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?
Best regards,
Christian
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 :)
Correct, with a new episode airing sometime after midnight.
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?
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
Hi Mike,
Hopefully the name of the title of that program is allways the same? Then you could try to use the undoneepgsearch.sh script in the plugin-package. Starting this by cron short before midnight with the given title should remove the recording from the epgsearchdone.data after that you can start a new epgsearchupdate:
touch /path-to-plugins-config-dir/.epgsearchupdate
and your programm will found as new/unrecorded and timer should be set for the next appearance.
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Mike Lampard