How can I suppress autorec recordings from unwanted regional sister / twin channels?

Added by Daisy Reiss almost 10 years ago

Hey folks,

I use "autorec" very much. Our channels are sending f.i. the "Tatort" and "SOKO" crime series very often on the main as well as on the sister channels. So I omit the channel name and just record "(^Tatort)|(^SOKO)|(^Kommissar)". This causes to record it on channes "ZDF", "Das Erste", "WDR", "hr fernsehen", "ZDFneo", "NDR FS xxx" and so on. Nice feature!

But there is a pain in one detail:
On our DVB-T network in the Hannover Area, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), we have one channel, that comes in 4 region flavours:

"NDR FS NDS" for my area,
"NDR FS SH*" for next north state,
"NDR FS MVP*" for next northeast state and
"NDR FS HH*" for Hamburg.
All 4 Channels are sending almost the same, except the local news. In the prime time, they send absolutely the same, with same names and so on.

So, with my setup I'll get 4 identical recording of a movie, recorded at exactly the same time from the same bouquet (see attached screenshot 1).

To prevent this, I disabled the 3 almost-identical-sister channels under "Configuration | Channel|EPG | Channels", Enabled Column (see screenshot 2).
but it will still record from this channels!

How can I stop it?

4xNDR.PNG (59.4 KB) 4xNDR.PNG	here we see the 4 sister channels
3xdisabled_NDR.PNG (64.4 KB) 3xdisabled_NDR.PNG	I disabled 3 of them, but still get records

Replies (4)

RE: How can I suppress autorec recordings from unwanted regional sister / twin channels? - Added by Ron L almost 10 years ago

Maybe try disabling the associated services as well, or just delete those channels entirely.

RE: How can I suppress autorec recordings from unwanted regional sister / twin channels? - Added by Daisy Reiss almost 10 years ago

hmmm... not the straight, clean way to do it. But I'll try that.
The other idea was to duplicate my Crime Series autorec Profile x times, each for one of the wanted TV channels, by omitting the 3 sister channels. Even not the straigt forward way.

I would like to have a "list of wanted channels" instead a "one given channel or all channels" in the autorec profile editor.

Where is the best place to beg for such extensions? the paypal button? ;-)

RE: How can I suppress autorec recordings from unwanted regional sister / twin channels? - Added by Ron L almost 10 years ago

Create a new issue and add a feature request. I'm sure any donation you make will be put to good use, but I'm not sure if they necessarily accept donations for specific feature additions. They are very accommodating when it comes to supporting such requests and this one sounds like it would be quite useful.

RE: How can I suppress autorec recordings from unwanted regional sister / twin channels? - Added by Daisy Reiss almost 10 years ago

Ron L wrote:

Create a new issue and add a feature request.

Feedback for the community

I did it and it was fixed immediately, see: [[https://tvheadend.org/issues/2668]].
I was just around the corner to get an espresso, after beeing back, it was done.
COOL!!

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