Recording spree w/intelligent recording off?

[ku71]

About once a week, I get apparently random recordings in SageTV. I have intelligent recording off so I know it would not be guessing what else I could like.

It even records stuff like "paid programming" and on various channels. Any explanations as to what could be happening?

Thanks
Martin

[mlbdude]

You probably just left SageTV on over night after watching live TV. It will continue to record the last channel so you can timeshift back as far as your HD will go. Just make sure you put Sage to sleep when you are done with it. Otherwise, the shows should be marked as Watched so they will be deleted as necessary. The problem will come if a Favorite comes on over night it will be marked as Watched too I believe.

[Crazedz]

This could present a problem for my future HTPC setup.

I don't intend that my future sage setup when i put it from my desktop system (which i currently do put to sleep when not watching recordings) to the livingroom HTPC system. I intend for the living room system to never goto sleep i want to keep it in fullscreen mode so the desktop is never shown( I want this to look and act as much like a living room appliance as possible not like a pc on a tv) but having it continue recording a channel after something has been watched live is not something i want to see happening. Nor is having it set fav shows as watched and deleteing them when nobody was actually their watching them.

It should really after viewing a live broadcast show send you back to the guide or menu after the show has ended. Or when you leave live viewing just stop recording that channel after that show has ended unless a fav or intelligent recording on that channel comes up next. That way it avoids this kind of cluttering up of the drive with shows you never wanted nor intended to record or setting fav shows i haven't watch yet as watched and deleting them on me.

One thing i have noticed with intelligent recording is that theirs certain shows that for some reason it just doesn't get the message on when i tell it i don't like it it keeps adding it to the recording lineup and i notice it everytime i do a look ahead to whats comming up over the next couple days that it selected which i may want to watch just so i know if it's something i really wanna see. I keep having the british house of commons broadcast scheduled to record every week and i keep telling it i don't like that but every week i notice it puts it in the schedule to record. I don't even live in england nor am i british so i really not interested it watching that. No i have never watched it nor have i had it actually recorded but i have seen it as an upcomming recording every week it just doesn't seem to wanna get the hint on that show.

Something should be done about this to fix it in the upcomming 2.0 release so it can address these problems.

[ku71]

The extraneous recordngs are not marked as watched

[stanger89]

I've never tried it but there's a "Screensaver on sleep" setting in the detailed setup I believe, that should allow you to put it Sage to sleep without showing the desktop.

[msm]

Sage TV has to record whatever is been shown for timeshifting to work. It doesn't know whether you going to be watching the program or not so it plays it safe and records anyway. This way, if you switch to Live TV half way through the program you can rewind to the begining and watch it.

This shouldn't be a problem as it will delete these programs first (if they are not scheduled to be recorded or favorites it will mark them as unscheduled and watched recordings as soon as they are finished, thus putting them as the lowest of the low in the Sage order of prioity) so it will not cause other, scheduled recordings to be missed.

Hope this helps a bit,

Matt

[mlbdude]

If they are not marked as watched that would be a good thing. I would just ignore them and let them be deleted.

[msm]

I don;t think they are -you got me worried now

Anyone else care to comment...

Matt