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eftychia at 10:37pm on 2004-01-18Dammit! Before I left the house this afternoon I made sure there was a long enough tape in the VCR and the VCR was turned off so that it would record the shows I'd programmed it to. Trusting the machine, I let myself get caught up in LJ and email instead of stopping in the middle just to go watch television (besides, it only takes three fourths as long to watch a show on tape). Just now I passed by that room and noticed it wasn't recording. I have no idea why not. I turned it on and back off again, and it started recording (The Practice), but this means that everything else I wanted to catch today got missed. The interesting-sounding movie this afternoon isn't a biggie, but if anyone local to me (Baltimore) happened to record Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, or Alias tonight, and would be willing to lend me the tape, I'd appreciate it. Especially Trek and Alias, which have multi-episode plots. And most especially Alias, which I really want to see in order if possible.
I hate it when my technology lets me down. It makes me feel so ... betrayed.
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What do you record on Wednesday at 2000? That is the first showing of the Sunday repeat. Won't help you this week, but...
Wait a month or two, it'll be back on. UPN cut back the number of episodes ordered this year, so they will be repeating sooner.
partial success
Enterprise on RTV
Re: Enterprise on RTV
RTV clients
However, with expect, lynx, and awk, I have written scripts that will get the daily contents of my RTV from the MyReplayTV web site and list/print them in a form I like, along with some very useful info that Replay doesn't provide: the total time (and percentage of disk space) recorded, and a list of which programs and channels have been dropped and added since the previous MyRTV contact. I've added columns for my wife and me to check off shows we've seen, so we can know it's OK to delete something when the other's not around. (That's even prepopulated for some shows that one or the other of us doesn't care about. Let the script remember that stuff.) I can sort by time recorded or by program title. (The website has both, but the RTV itself won't give me the former.) It shows which programs are preserved or guaranteed. This info is inconvenient to get to both in the RTV and on the MyRTV site.
[Looks like I can't do a lj-cut in a comment. My ReplayTV contents for Sunday 25 January 2004.] I thought this was major cool, and I was very disapointed that no one expressed any interest in it when I described it on AVS Forum years back. I've also sometimes mentioned it to SonicBlue when I needed to report problems, but apparently no interest there either. If nothing else, they should have clued in about some useful info they could add to the MyRTV website.
My next challenge is to modify the scripts to produce something my web page can link to. I'm just learning HTML, so this may be a little ways off. But just last night I wrote a script to update my web pages based on changes to my local files -- it figures out what's changed (ignoring files that aren't actually referenced by other pages) and makes the FTP connection to my ISP.