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Tvheadend equivalents for mythtv "never record", re-record and multiserver

Added by Em Smith over 7 years ago

I'm a long time mythtv user and trying to work out the tvheadend equivalents.

I mostly have generic rules such as "record movie if full text matches X, Y or Z". So this schedules to record and (on mythtv) if I see something I definitely don't want to see then I hit 'never record' so even if the programme appears again next month then it still won't record it. I believe it fakes a record saying the programme had already been recorded.

I couldn't find a 'never record' option equivalent on tvheadend. I can deselect a recording in the Upcoming tab but if the programme is on again next month then it will schedule again (and again and again).

Also a question on the dvr log. On mythtv the "already recorded" is by default kept forever. So I have rules to record all title X. It then uses the EIT programid (crid?) to record unique episodes even if those episodes are repeated in the future. If I don't watch an episode and it get auto-removed for disk space then that episode will be re-recorded when it is next repeated. This setup allows me to easily catch up on a programme where we might have season 5 on in prime time and season 4 in an afternoon on a different channel.

Does "dvr log retention forever" do the same? Does it handle thousands of entries so I don't need to cleanup. If I don't watch an episode but have file keep until out of space, then does the episode get re-recorded?

Final question is on running multiple servers that have different cards (sat/aerial) but where the same channel is broadcast on sat and aerial with same crid but obviously different muxes. What's the best way to set this up so that I can say "autorec title X" and it would record across either sat or aerial but not record the same programme on both at the same time. Should I be using tvheadend's sat>ip?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


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RE: Tvheadend equivalents for mythtv "never record", re-record and multiserver - Added by Em Smith over 7 years ago

Anyone any idea on "never record" and whether programmes that are deleted to free up disk space are automatically recorded even if the dvr log says "keep forever"?

For the multiple servers, I ended up using minisat since it detected my cards and mostly worked. though it doesn't pass through signal strength.

I decided against using tvheadend as a satip server since it appeared to require the adapters to be attached to specific network muxes (whereas minisatip needs no tuning since it's done on the server), and tvheadend server could only see the dvb-s2 card and not the dvb-t card exported by the satip, but with minisatip then tvheadend could see all the cards.

RE: Tvheadend equivalents for mythtv "never record", re-record and multiserver - Added by Em Smith over 7 years ago

Looking at the code, AFAICT tvheadend does not take in to account "playcount" or "playposition" when deleting files. I could see logic to re-arm the timers so I perhaps any file that is deleted is re-scheduled meaning you have to explicitly delete files you have watched.

Whereas on mythtv, a file that is "expired" (deleted for disk space) is marked for re-record unless we've watched more than X% of the programme since it's assumed you rarely watch the end of recordings due to adverts and that if you've watched a programme you don't want to re-watch it.

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