Hi,
I actually have the same wish. I've been running a mythtv setup for over 10 years now
(first on dual analog hauppauge PVR500 cards, then on dual hauppauge NOVA T500 cards,
and now a quad tuner TBS6284).
Recently I switched to TVHeadend for one major reason: It's recording backend is far
superior where it concerns DVB, no hassle with the parallel recordings on the same
transponder, fast channelswitching, oscam integration, and it basically just works.
The scheduler however, is far less advanced than mythtv. In mythtv i could program
a series as 'record one episode every day/week on this/any channel (at time xx:xx),
keep maximum 5 recordings, record new and delete old'.
That is
very convenient for repeating programs that are scheduled on different or
repeating times. I use this system a lot to record news bulletins, and documentaries
on NGC/Discovery.
Also it seems mythtv is much better able to deal with recognizing duplicate episodes,
thus recording only one, instead of all duplicates (lately, i find myself busy deleting
a lot of duplicate recordings). But perhaps that is just me not having figured out
how to properly configure tvheadend to do the same.
My ideal setup would be to have the mythtv scheduler instruct the tvheadend backend
(instead of using tvheadends own auto-scheduler), and still use XBMC frontend for playback,
which seems a lot more modern compared to mythtv frontend.
I don't have a lot of spare time to work on this, but i've been looking at extending
at least the tvheadend recording ui, so that it can at least store some additional
user input, so that i can have a python script do a bit of post processing every night
to auto delete obsolete recordings, that could be a start.
Regards,
Mark.