Hi
My question or idea is regarding the scheduler and recording priorities, and is a result of my usage pattern with mythtv.
Is there a way to let mythtv adjust a recording schedules priority, depending on how many episodes are recorded and available to play?
In Denmark, as in propably the rest of the world, all the good stuff are broadcasted at pretty much the same time, and as a "single-tuner" person, I use the episode limit in order to spread the recordings around the different shows, but this still requires me to record 10-15 (my limit) episodes from a series, before it will begin to record from the series that accidently conflicted with the first one.
The way it could work (I'm not an experienced myth developer, but I think this could work):
1) The user (this being me, you, them, anybody) schedules a recording with a priority and episode limit, just like normal.
2) The user also checks a box with "adjust priority with available episodes", or something shorter, and sets a minimum priority for this recording schedule.
3) The scheduler adjust the priority before scheduling the recordings in the following way:
Example:
Record at most 10 episodes of a show
Starting priority is 10.
Minimum priority is -10.
4 shows available.
This gives the recording an actual priority of:
Priority span: 10 - (-10) = 20
Priority step pr. show: 20 / 10 = 2
Recorded shows "penalty": 2 * 4 = 8
Actual priority: 10 - 8 = 2
I am not sure this is doable in mythtv, or if it is already available through a script, but my googling found nothing about this being mentioned.
An option could also be to set the minimum priority to a low value (-99), and let the episode limit be a soft limit, used only to calculate the actual priority. Having a large storage, someone might want to keep recording episodes, as long as it does not conflict with other shows.
Please let me know if anyone has thought of something like this. It would make mythtv even better for the single-tuner people with few reruns :)
Kind regards, Henrik
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