Strategy to record items missing from guide?

Joseph Black

I have a program that I want to record, and it airs at regular times during the week, and a few other various times. So I have an autorec that looks for the title. However, the other day, the guide was missing the entry for one of the regular weekday airings, and the recording was missed. Does anyone have a recommendation of how to (elegantly) catch both title and timed events in some sort of boolean fashion?

Replacing the autorec with a timed event won't work, because then I'll miss the show at odd times (on odd days or on regular days when the time is shifted due to specials etc). Adding both an autorec and timer causes two recordings of the same show using twice the space and cpu. The autorec has all kinds of settings, but I don't see some sort of boolean setting to say... if the title event does not appear today, then force a timed event instead.

DeltaMikeCharlie

I don’t think that this can be achieved elegantly at the moment.

Perhaps you could also place the AutoRec and Timer recordings into different directories and clean out the Timer directory manually weekly (or whatever).

A built-in solution would involve linking a Timer and an AutoRec so that the timer only triggers if there is not a scheduled recording that originated from the AutoRec to which the Timer is linked.

If you can write computer programs, you could probably write a script to run before each recording starts to see if it is being recorded by multiple methods. You could create a ‘Digital Video Recorder Profile’ setting for use by this AutoRec/Timer pair and run a ‘Pre-processor command’.