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Expiring Oldest Recordings First
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Posted by: km

I would like to schedule manual recordings around the clock
say 12 recordings 2 hours each. Each would be set to repeat
daily. I also would like the oldest recording to get erased
first.

To my surpise this is not what happens if you do the obvious
scheduling. The first recurrent recording schedules 2 weeks
of itself and has an advantage over the groups entered
subsequently. Some recordings last for days, while newer ones
live only a short time.

Does anyone see a way to get the effect I'm looking for.

Posted by: Thom

The only way I can think of is to set it to record 1 daily recording of 24 hours.

Posted by: HTH

quote:
Originally posted by Thom:
The only way I can think of is to set it to record 1 daily recording of 24 hours.

Is it smart enough to know you mean for it to record 24 hours vs. recording 0 hours, or would you have to record 23 hours, 55 minutes and not record for 5 minutes between cycles?

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Posted by: Spire

No, it's not smart enough. Just tried it.

"Invalid time: You have made the start time the same as the stop time. Please make them different."

Posted by: CheapGuy

If you're looking to use it as a security camera type of thing, you can just increase your live buffer to be say 24 hours. Granted, you're probably going to need an upgraded unit since the live buffer is recorded in "best" mode.

Posted by: Spire

quote:
Originally posted by CheapGuy:
If you're looking to use it as a security camera type of thing, you can just increase your live buffer to be say 24 hours

Hey, that's a great idea! Why didn't I think of that? http://www.avsforum.com/ubbtivo/wink.gif

Question: Doesn't the playback navigation bar get kinda screwy if you increase the live buffer beyond the default 30 minutes? I haven't tried it myself yet, precisely because of reports that things get a little messed up (if only cosmetically).