[mythtvnz] Find weekly gotcha

[David Moore]

On 21/06/12 20:47, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:15 PM, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz
> <mailto:dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Just figured out an odd problem I've been having with some
>     recordings. (Maybe I'm a bit slow.) I use the "Record one showing of
>     this title every week" a lot. Generally works perfectly but have had
>     a few cases where the scheduler decided not to record a show even
>     though it was new for this week. Seems that if the new show starts
>     earlier this week than last week then the scheduler decides less
>     than a week has elapsed so it won't record because there was an
>     earlier showing already recorded for the week. Bah.
>
>     Now I have to figure out a rule that allows for this. OK. Looks like
>     I should use "Record at any time..." and then set the "New episode"
>     option in schedule filters. Hope this does the trick.
>
>
> I believe (though I may be wrong) that the scheduler uses the particular
> timeslot you selected when you created the rule as the start of the
> week. I.e. if you created the rule using a Wed 6pm timeslot for the
> program then the week runs from Wed 6pm to the next Wed. So an episode
> on Tuesday would belong to the previous week. So what you want to do is
> to create the rule on the first "new" episode of the week.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>

I see what you're saying. The problem I had was a show starting 10 
minutes earlier this week than last week. And only one showing per week. 
A human being can easily say that 10 minutes doesn't matter but the code 
is fussy I guess.