opdenkamp/xbmc — Issue #285: [FR] Add option to retain last day of EPG data
Author: fiveisalive
Created: 2011-10-22 04:52:20+00:00
State: open

With the current EPG you can't scroll back a few hours or day from the present to see what was just playing previously: those events are gone the instant the hour is up. This is in contrast to the behaviour in other PVRs, e.g. mythfrontend (and the Mythbox add-on for Dharma) where you can scroll back up to a few days (the mythtvbackend eventually deletes old program info after that).

As a usecase: I find it useful when you catch the tail end of an interesting program (let's say you're watching Live TV) to go back and see the program details, and/or schedule subsequent recordings of that program. But once the next hour comes, those events are inaccessible via the PVR. It would be nice, therefore, to be able to set a window for caching old EPG events (e.g. maybe 4-5 hours or so) before they disappear from display. I'm assuming this is a PVR-wide issue, not specific to the mythtv-cmyth add-on I'm currently using