New feature request: omit frequently-scheduled programmes

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I have a number of repeated schedules (mainly news). Their rule is matched
on most days, usually at the same time. 

I do not want my mythtv calendar to show these programmes, as the signal to
noise level drops, and it is harder to quickly see the irregular recordings
taking place.

I have added a few lines of code to cause mythcal to filter out any
programmes which appear more than 5 times (I get a schedule for the next 8
days). I would be happy to submit the code as a patch, if requested.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nicholas.farrell on 21 Jan 2010 at 3:06

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Nicholas, I'd be interested in seeing your patch.

Another solution is to have a predefined list of programme titles that should be
excluded from the calendar.

Original comment by richardfearn on 23 Jan 2010 at 2:55

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Richard, I've attached the patch. I have modified my original approach a little 
to be
more general. If you want to suppress entries for everything with news in the 
title,
you could put 'prog.title.lower().find('news') > -1', with a 
suppression_threshold of
1. (If the expression returns None or False that program will never be 
suppressed).

If you want to suppress all items with 'news' or 'football' in the title, you 
could
do something like: 
len(filter(lambda n: prog.title.lower().find(n) > -1, ['news', 'football'])) > 0

Granted, this is a little tricky for non-pythoners to figure out, but it does 
allow
power mythtv users to be in control. 

Personally, I use 'prog.recordid' as the suppression expression, with a 
threshold of
4 (with a DVB-T programme for the coming 8 days).

This diff assumes the configuration parameters are in the mythtv section, but 
you may
prefer to create a separate section.

If you :

Original comment by nicholas.farrell on 24 Jan 2010 at 12:04

Attachments:

• mythcal.diff