Quoting Kevin Kuphal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Derek Battams wrote: >> The scheduler has marked Letterman in conflict for tonight, even though >> it could resolve the conflict by choosing a later showing of Colbert. >> If I add a manual override and force the later showing of Colbert to >> record then the conflict resolves itself. Why doesn't the scheduler >> fix the conflict itself? Judging from what I see, the scheduler should >> have recorded the 2am Colbert on Tuner 2 to allow Letterman to record >> at 11:35pm. >> > Bruce will probably chime in with a detailed and spot on analysis but my > quick glance leads me to believe that it did not bump Colbert because it > is a higher priority than Letterman. There is a checkbox in the setup > for rescheduling higher priority items which I believe would allow the > scheduler to resolve this automatically. It is not enabled by default > because it is assumed that you want higher priority items to win over > lower priority and record sooner even if there is a later showing. > Imagine if Fox was running 24 again on Monday before the next new > episodes (like Lost does) and it bumped 24 on Sunday to recording > something else knowing that it could record later and left you screaming > at your friends at work on Monday to quit talking about the show because > your PVR decided not to record it when it aired... > > If you enable the checkbox, it will resolve the conflict but understand > the possible consequences.
From my original post, the checkbox is checked, which is why I'm surprised as to why it didn't reschedule it as expected. > mysql> select * from settings where value='SchedMoveHigher'; > +-----------------+------+----------+ > | value | data | hostname | > +-----------------+------+----------+ > | SchedMoveHigher | 1 | NULL | > +-----------------+------+----------+ Help appreciated, Derek _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
