In mythtv 1.18.1, using mythweb: Trying to schedule a manual recording is... peculiar. I've done some searching but haven't been able to unearth any reports about this, but perhaps I'm just looking in the wrong place.
If I click on "Manually Schedule", adjust the start time to be a minute or two in the future, adjust the length to 2 minutes, and click Create Schedule, it pops up a slightly different menu that says Save Schedule at the bottom. Nothing has actually been scheduled yet, though, according to the Scheduled Recordings page on my frontend, or in the same page in mythweb. And clicking on Save Schedule is a no-op; I just get the same page back, over and over and over. HOWEVER, if I instead click in the Schedule Override section for "Record this specific showing", it then puts me back in what looks like first menu again (fewer options), but with Save Schedule still at the bottom. Clicking "Save Schedule" still doesn't cause the schedule to be created. If I then -undo- that override by clicking on "Schedule normally', THEN the Save Schedule button actually schedules the recording. I just repeated this about 5 times in a row to convince myself that this was what was really happening. Even weirder, if I don't touch the start time or the length, THEN the Save Schedule button pops up the second page (with Create Schedule), BUT it's already been scheduled before I can even edit that page, and so the recording starts instantly---the FE, mythweb, and the tuner status all say a recording is going on. So apparently things are different if the recording starts this instant vs if it starts a few minutes in the future. [-Or- it's the length part, but see below for why I'm giving up on debugging this further right now.] Furthermore, while trying to debug this, I now have a recording in the Scheduled Recordings page in my FE that's -in the past- and yet claims to be recording, and is unkillable---I can't make it go away from that page (even though no tuner is currently recording). It's definitely red (like a recording that's actually recording) even though its start and end time are several minutes in the past. I haven't tried all the other possibilities in the mythweb UI because I'd like to at least figure out how to undo whatever it did just now, and to find out if this behavior might be fixed in SVN or if it's just rare that people schedule manual recordings. (Or if there's some bug having to do with specifying its length or start-time.) How is this menu -supposed- to work? [And should I just avoid manual scheduling in mythweb in 1.18.1?] Thanks... P.S. "Delete" in the Scheduled Recordings page in mythweb didn't do at all what I expected---it set an override saying "don't record this manual recording" instead of just deleting it outright, as the similar command in the FE would do. If I schedule something and change my mind, how do I get mythweb to just -forget- about it and not mark it as a scheduled recording that's been overridden not to happen? Are mythfrontend and mythweb supposed to be incompatible in this way? P.P.S. Rebooting the backend made the phantom recording at 20:47 finally vanish. However, it -then- instantly started recording another manual recording, claimed to start at 20:44, and which was -not- in the display before I rebooted. Using "Stop Recording" in mythfrontend actually got it to stop, and its color has now changed from red to gray and it's marked S there (and the tuner is marked "not recording"). [It's still hanging around, gray, in my Scheduled Recordings menu in the FE, though, even though it's now been about 15 minutes since the recording stopped; apparently that's because it was one of the default-2-hour recordings from mythweb, because it claims to have recorded from 21:03 to 22:44 (even though it's only 21:18 here at the moment; I'm guessing that I stopped it at 22:44, but those times still don't make lots of sense to me). I'm hoping it will finally vanish from the Scheduled Recordings page on the FE sometime after 22:44. It's -really- confusing---the actual one-liner at the top of my FE's screen says "21:03", then the channel ID, then "Thu Dec 1 20:44:00", but the details display in the bottom half of the screen claims "21:03 - 22:44" (there's -no way- I set those times myself, and they don't correspond well to when I booted/cancelled anything), even though the line right underneath -that- also claims 20:44:00 just like the highlighted line at the top. WTF?]
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