How To Record Just A Portion Of A Recurring Program?

[jseymour]

We've a morning "news" show we wish to record. Problem is: It starts at 4 a.m. and runs until 9 a.m. They repeat essentially the same thing every half hour. So we'd like to record only from, say, 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

Any way to achieve that?

TIA

[chDVRuser]

Until they add negative padding I can only think of two ways.
1 - Record the show starting at 9am and pre-pad 90 minutes so it starts recording at 7:30am.
2 - Create a manual recording How to create a Manual Time/Channel based recording job

[jseymour]

Thanks, @chDVRuser. Neither of those are particularly attractive options. I just won't bother. It's not that important.

[_Mike]

I suggested exactly the same thing some time ago. @tmm1 Do you think this might be a possible enhancement someday?

Restrict recording time on Series Pass?

Is there any way to record only X minutes of a show in a Series Pass? For example, we record the Today Show daily. It is a 2-hour show. The first hour is generally news, while the second hour is generally useless fluff. I'd love to be able to restrict the pass to record only the first hour of the show. It would sort of be the opposite of the existing Padding functionality. Rather than padding to 60 minutes after the show ends, I would want to negative-pad 60 minutes before the show ends.

[TV_Ken]

@jseymour

We've a morning "news" show we wish to record. Problem is: It starts at 4 a.m. and runs until 9 a.m. They repeat essentially the same thing every half hour. So we'd like to record only from, say, 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Any way to achieve that?

I have done exactly what you want, but I don't think you will like the answer.

First you need to figure out how to use Curl or some other tool to create a recording by Date, Time, Channel, Duration. There are threads in the forum on how to do this. It is not easy or straight forward.

Then you need a program on your computer which sends this command out to Channels on a regular basis because there is no way to make it a series, you can only do one show/day at a time.

For me, I have a database of shows with information on what days of the week they should be scheduled. Then at 7am each day it schedules that day's programs, and the following day as well, just in case of a failure in my scheduling program. There is no penalty in scheduling the same exact show twice, it just replaces the old one with the new one.

Ken

[tmm1]

Now available:

@tmm1

Starting with prerelease v2021.04.30.1959, passes can now have negative start or end padding.

[TV_Ken]

YEA!!! This gets rid of a ton of my custom programming.

Thanks guys.