Beanie

I'm sorry to say this, but I think I may have found another problem with autotimer. I wonder if it is related.

Using the remote control, if I edit the new timer defaults to choose override found with alternative service to "yes", then press green button to OK, the setting sticks. I can go back into the new timer defaults and "yes" is still selected.

If I then press green again (save and search now) to leave autotimer, and then go back into autotimer, then the timer default setting has reverted to "no".

My feeling is there is a problem with writing to autotimer.xml properly.

"AutoTimer Editor" -->"Override found with alternative service" set yes?

Have tried with this to to both yes and no. Does not seem to make a difference either way.

Using the example above in post 15 it won't find a match where there is the specified bouquet to search, and the match should be on a channel with alternatives.

I have manually checked that there are matches available on that channel, and they exist in each of the two channels listed in the alternative.

Excellent, thanks

That has solved the problem of not being able to add alternative services to specific autotimers.

I am still finding that autotimer does not find matches on a channel with alternatives when that channel is part of a bouquet specified to search.

So with this service

#NAME Sky Open
#SERVICE 1:0:1:3FA:3:A9:6400000:0:0:0:
#SERVICE 1:0:19:57E:21:222A:EEEE0000:0:0:0:

in the bouquet userbouquet.favourites.tv as

#SERVICE 1:134:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:FROM BOUQUET "alternatives.1_0_1_3FA_3_A9_6400000_0_0_0_.tv" ORDER BY bouquet

and the autotimer includes

<bouquet>1:7:1:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:FROM BOUQUET &quot;userbouquet.favourites.tv&quot; ORDER BY bouquet</bouquet>

The timer will only find matches on simple services without alternatives.

I can work around it by adding the alternative channels as that works now (thank you!). I don't know if this would be a straightforward fix?

Thank you so much. Do I replace /usr/lib/enigma2/python/Plugins/Extensions/AutoTimer/AutoTimerConfiguration.pyc with this?

I've seen occasional differences between different versions of a channel with EPG data, but usually close enough to not be a problem.