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Creating a *recurring* manual timed event (ie not using EPG)

Added by Martin Underwood almost 5 years ago

For some reason, the EPG listings for one channel that I want to record from don't contain anything after next Monday. Other channels contain 1 week's worth of listings, so it's unlikely to be a TVH problem.

So I want to create a manual timed event, to say "record on Monday-Friday, start 10:00, stop 11:00, (with default padding) from this channel", even though there are no EPG listings to match against.

I can create a separate event for each day, but is there a way to set a single event which records every (matching) day at the same time, so I don't have to keep creating new events for the same channel and times on successive days?

I looked at Autorec, but that seems to require events in the EPG which are matched against the stated title, so they fail to match anything if the EPG list is empty for that channel.


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RE: Creating a *recurring* manual timed event (ie not using EPG) - Added by Joe User almost 5 years ago

What version of tvheadend???
In 4.3 there is an option for "days of the week" for "timer" recordings, but I am pretty sure that option has been around a long time...

RE: Creating a *recurring* manual timed event (ie not using EPG) - Added by Martin Underwood almost 5 years ago

I've got 4.2.8-36, the latest version that has been compiled for Raspberry Pi and Ubuntu (Intel), as obtained using "sudo apt-get" or Ubuntu's package-update applet.

That doesn't seem to have a "days of the week" option on timer recordings:

Digital Video Recorder | Upcoming/Current Recordings | Add

This allows you to assign a title that will appear in the list of programmes to be recorded (and in the filename), a channel (selected from the dropdown), a start date from the calendar, and a time, and likewise for stop time.

But I can't see anything which allows "every Thursday" or "every day Mon-Fri, but not Sat-Sun".

Autorecs, where you'd expect to be able to define recurring, as opposed to one-off, recordings, has days of the week, but this is only to filter out non-complying entries that already exist in the EPG. If the EPG is blank, you're stuffed because if you say you want a given channel, starting after a certain time and starting before a certain time, on specific days of the week, it won't find anything unless it's in the EPG.

Maybe TVH doesn't have the ability to schedule recurring recordings (every Thursday) when the EPG is blank. Shame: that would be a useful enhancement.

Anyway, the need for it in my case has been overtaken by events: on Sunday night, just before the last entry in the EPG for the channel in question (Drama, on 28.2 deg Sky satellite), the EPG suddenly acquired a whole load more entries. Normally they are added one day at a time, every day; this time they seem to have been added for the whole week all in one go. Either TVH was playing up (but only for that channel and not for any others), or else the channel was very late in submitting its EPG to be broadcast OTA.

RE: Creating a *recurring* manual timed event (ie not using EPG) - Added by Joe User almost 5 years ago

Martin Underwood wrote:

Maybe TVH doesn't have the ability to schedule recurring recordings (every Thursday) when the EPG is blank. Shame: that would be a useful enhancement.

Like I said, it is available in 4.3 and there are builds available for the pi.

RE: Creating a *recurring* manual timed event (ie not using EPG) - Added by Martin Underwood almost 5 years ago

Probably a silly question: how do I get versions of TVH which are newer than sudo apt-get can find? Is 4.3 not offered by default because it is development rather than stable?

RE: Creating a *recurring* manual timed event (ie not using EPG) - Added by stefan 327 almost 5 years ago

Probably a silly question: how do I get versions of TVH which are newer than sudo apt-get can find? Is 4.3 not offered by default because it is development rather than stable?

I got packages for tvh 4.3-1854 for raspbian buster from here:

https://phillw.net/mark/incoming/deb_packages/tvheadend/

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