OTA epiphany, casual exodus, temperature

an epiphany about these OTA recordings

There are some needlessly annoying things about the cheap DVR.

whitespaces in recording filesnames

I get around this by replacing whitespace, brackets, exclamation points, and other problematic chars with underscores. Not pretty, but functional:

MeTV___-05302023-0205.mts

(lack of) title

It knows the title of the show from EPG but does not name the recording file using that information. In the filename above we can see it was recorded on MeTV on May 30, 2023, starting at 2:05am.

Then I realized that since these were all essentially repeating manual recordings I knew what I intended to record on a channel at a given time. So now I just make a big case statement with the most common titles/times in it. The matching entry for the recording above is:

MeTV*-0205.mts)
                        PREFIX="Cannon";
                        echo found $PREFIX
                        ;;

Later in the script the PREFIX is added to the filename so our file above becomes:

Cannon-MeTV___-05302023-0205.mts.360p

Anything that is not caught in the defined cases gets an “Unknown” prefix.

room for error

Since I am not checking the date if I had two shows recorded in the same timeslot but on different days they would get conflated. In practice I have nothing like that scheduled so it doesn’t happen.

Perhaps in a later iteration I’ll

1. store the data in a .csv or sqlite db and loop through that to build a case statement; and
2. parse the datestamp to see what day of the week it is.

Don’t hold your breath.

update on renaming

this is working pretty well:

Bones-COZI___-05312023-1500.mts.360p.mp4
Bones-COZI___-06012023-1500.mts.360p.mp4
Bones-COZI___-06022023-1501.mts.360p.mp4
Cannon-MeTV___-06012023-0205.mts.360p.mp4
Cannon-MeTV___-06022023-0204.mts.360p.mp4
Gunsmoke-MeTV___-05312023-1200.mts.360p.mp4
Gunsmoke-MeTV___-06012023-1200.mts.360p.mp4
Gunsmoke-MeTV___-06022023-1200.mts.360p.mp4
Numb3rs-KOB-DT2-06022023-0100.mts.360p.mp4
PerryMason-MeTV___-06012023-0800.mts.360p.mp4
PerryMason-MeTV___-06022023-0800.mts.360p.mp4
Rizzoli-StartTV-05312023-2000.mts.360p.mp4
Rizzoli-StartTV-06012023-2000.mts.360p.mp4
Rizzoli-StartTV-06022023-2000.mts.360p.mp4
Seaside-NMPBS-06022023-0400.mts.360p.mp4
Unforgettable-StartTV-05312023-1400.mts.360p.mp4
Unforgettable-StartTV-06012023-1400.mts.360p.mp4
Unforgettable-StartTV-06022023-1401.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-Charge-05312023-1900.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-Create-05312023-2329.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOB-DT2-05312023-1300.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOB-DT2-06012023-1000.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOB-DT2-06012023-1100.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOB-DT2-06022023-1000.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOB-DT2-06022023-1100.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOB-DT2-06022023-1300.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-KOBDT4-06012023-0100.mts.360p.mp4
Unknown-World-06012023-0900.mts.360p.mp4

plague departs

The locusts casual campers have departed. Their final contribution was full-auto gunfire after sundown.

temps

Yesterday and today are 78F, a bit of an uncomfortable spike. I don’t willingly stay in temps that high for long periods. It’s bearable with the swampcooler but takes ~2gal/day to run on the highest fan setting. 28gal on a 14d outing puts a real dent in my water supply.

The rest of the week looks like it will be 71F or lower. Looking for 8,000ft for the next spot after reprovisioning.

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