Re: [mythtv-users] Manual Scheduling - bug?
On 01/11/05, Bruce Markey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Angi wrote: > > I only use MythTV with manual scheduling and have noticed the following > > bug/feature. When you setup a recording "...in this timeslot every day" > > on a weekday, weekends are skipped. If you setup an 'everyday' recording > > on a weekend day it truely records every day. Can anyone tell me if I'm > > just doing something wrong? > > What you've done wrong is either thought too hard or not enough =). > This is a feature not a bug. For many things it is valid and preferred > to record only on weekdays and for other things, seven days a week > is the only right thing to do. Setting the "Date or day of the week:" > to Sat or Sun is a convenient way to make this distinction. This is > quite intuitive as others like yourself had no problem figuring out > how it works then chose to ask if it was a bug. > > I suppose there could be a note on the manual page to point out this > intended behavior. This may look junky and should fit on a single line. > Would something like this be useful? On behalf of other MythTV users who 'just want it to work', could these undocumented 'features' be explicitly detailed, especially if there is likely to be a high degree of confusion (such as the meaning of 'every day'). Why isn't there an option so that if you set up the schedule between Mon-Fri, you see two options: - Record Mon-Fri - Record every day This explicitly gives the user the resulting behaviour, and also adds more functionality at the same time. An additional option that is reachable via the UI rather than having to hack the database is always preferable too. In my experience of using MythTV for just over a year, there are several features that I would ideally like the user to have some degree of custom control over. I am not a dev, and would hope this would be taken on board not as a criticism but as a way to make MythTV easier to use for everyone, rather than assuming everyone will 'discover' these features after the fact. Nick ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manual Scheduling - bug?
James Angi wrote: > I only use MythTV with manual scheduling and have noticed the following bug/feature. > When you setup a recording "...in this time slot every day" on a weekday, weekends are > skipped. If you setup an 'everyday' recording on a weekend day it truly records every > day. Can anyone tell me if I'm just doing something wrong? Bruce Markey wrote: > This is a feature not a bug. For many things it is valid and preferred I thought it might be. I can see the value in having every weekday and every weekend options. > Setting the "Date or day of the week:" to Sat or Sun is a convenient way to make this distinction. This is > quite intuitive as others like yourself had no problem figuring out how it works then chose to ask if it was a bug. I disagree, this is not intuitive at all. I know plenty of people who I would encourage to use Myth that find digital cable boxes daunting, never mind a PVR like Myth. Every day should mean Every day. I missed a weekend of recordings because I wasn't aware of this feature. Even a line in the manual wouldn't have helped, I only use the manual for technical questions. Myth is usually intuitive enough that reading the manual for something as simple as scheduling a recording isn't necessary. I would suggest different scheduling options. "Every weekend" and "every weekday" are possibly additions. There might be a better way, but anything that signals to the user that the existing "every day" option has two meanings would vastly improve this features intuitiveness. Thanks, James Angi ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Manual Scheduling - bug?
James Angi wrote:
I only use MythTV with manual scheduling and have noticed the following
bug/feature. When you setup a recording "...in this timeslot every day"
on a weekday, weekends are skipped. If you setup an 'everyday' recording
on a weekend day it truely records every day. Can anyone tell me if I'm
just doing something wrong?
What you've done wrong is either thought too hard or not enough =).
This is a feature not a bug. For many things it is valid and preferred
to record only on weekdays and for other things, seven days a week
is the only right thing to do. Setting the "Date or day of the week:"
to Sat or Sun is a convenient way to make this distinction. This is
quite intuitive as others like yourself had no problem figuring out
how it works then chose to ask if it was a bug.
I suppose there could be a note on the manual page to point out this
intended behavior. This may look junky and should fit on a single line.
Would something like this be useful?
-- bjm
Index: programs/mythfrontend/manualschedule.cpp
===
--- programs/mythfrontend/manualschedule.cpp(revision 7670)
+++ programs/mythfrontend/manualschedule.cpp(working copy)
@@ -96,6 +96,13 @@
hbox->addWidget(m_channel);
+message =
+tr("NOTE: Sat or Sun daily records every day otherwise weekdays only");
+label = new QLabel(message, this);
+label->setBackgroundOrigin(WindowOrigin);
+label->setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy(QSizePolicy::Fixed, QSizePolicy::Fixed));
+vbox->addWidget(label);
+
// Program Date
hbox = new QHBoxLayout(vbox, (int)(10 * wmult));
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[mythtv-users] Manual Scheduling - bug?
I only use MythTV with manual scheduling and have noticed the following bug/feature. When you setup a recording "...in this timeslot every day" on a weekday, weekends are skipped. If you setup an 'everyday' recording on a weekend day it truely records every day. Can anyone tell me if I'm just doing something wrong? Detailed info: My myth box records 24/7 on my PVR-150MCE's composite input. I have 24 recuring entries in my schedule, each 60 minutes in length. When I built the schedule last week, I selected "Record in this timeslot every day." When I checked my recordings today I noticed it had nothing all wekend. I also checked the upcoming schedule and noticed that it never planned to record on a weekend at all. I had to delete my entire schedule and re-make it with Saturday as the starting date and then tell it to record in this timeslot everyday. Now it works as intended. ~James ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
