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I can't believe that TVHeadEnd doesn't have this ability, but if it does, I'm not seeing how.
I'd like to be able to automatically schedule a recording for the same channel and time slot every week, or every weekday.
The only options I can find are "once" and "series", and for some reason "series" doesn't work right (it schedules a bunch of completely irrelevant recordings that all start immediately).
Is there some hidden secret to scheduling a recurring program based on channel and time? Every other backend program I have experimented with has this ability, which is what makes me think maybe I'm just not seeing it. I do note that the XBMC plugin ONLY offers me the ability to schedule a one-time recording.
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Thank you black_eagle. That works for stations that have guide data associated with them, but the remaining problem is that in North America most of the satellite feeds don't have any sort of guide data, so the only way to schedule a recording on those channels would be by time and date. There is no way I can see to schedule such a recording to occur every day or every week, at a specific time and for a specific duration. But the way you suggested does work for stations that have guide data associated with them.
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OK, that is interesting. I only have one channel that has no associated guide data. I'll have a look and see if I can figure out how to get it to record at a set time and date.
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As a workaround, are you able to get guide data through XMLTV?
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With EPG, you can choose a program and record, but you can't edit the begin/end time of the recording.
I would like to change the end time, because sometimes the program finish later.
Is this a lack of TVHeadend or XBMC?
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You can tell TVH to add so many minutes to the end of a recording. Set this up in the backend with TVH-> Configuration -> Recording -> DVR -> Extra Time after recording.
That way, if a program runs over its allotted time by a couple of minutes, TVH will still get the end.
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May I suggest that mythtv has all this sorted!
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The latest got version of tvheadend support what you request.
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If it works in TVHeadend, it works in linux and therefore works in mythtv.
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Do you have a reference for the broken satellite support? I haven't used satellite for a while, but it worked then over several versions of mythtv.
I don't spend as much time on the mythtv-users mailing list as I used to, but I am sure I would have noticed the postings if satellite stopped working! Can you point to somewhere in the list archives? I expect you are a member there if you are making the above statement.
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