DVR Scheduler to cancel recordings?

[gusmahler]

I suspect the answer is no, but can I remotely cancel recordings using DVR scheduler?

I'm out of town and I saw a movie on HBO I wanted to record. Just after setting it, I realized I might be low on room and thought I should reschedule the record to a later date/time (because HBO shows movies more than once). I don't see an option to cancel the recording though. Is there anything I can do? Or am I just going to be surprised as to whether or not I'm out of room on the DVR?

[jdspencer]

Sorry, I don't know of a way to cancel a recording. You do know that the oldest recording will be deleted to make room for a future recording?

[gusmahler]

I know that. But I've been gone a week and don't want any of the recordings I made a week ago to go away before I've had a chance to watch.

[jdspencer]

I wish you luck. So bottom line is don't use online scheduling if you think unwatched shows will get deleted. :)

If there is someone in the house that doesn't use the DVR, you could have them unplug it. But, then your series links won't record.

[rbpeirce]

My cure for this is to set my regular schedule to "keep" the shows I don't want to miss. Then, if I schedule a movie that might run me out of space, the movie gets deleted.

[gusmahler]

Luckily, I set my bedroom DVR to record most of the same shows. I originally did this after my HD DVR crashed a couple of times. The HD DVR has been rock solid reliable for over a year now, but I never stopped the pseudo backup recordings. Good thing. I don't really care if any of the shows on the bedroom DVR get erased and there should be plenty of space on it anyway. But HD movies take up a lot of space on the HD DVR and I'm almost certain to lose at least one show on it. Oh well.

[Drew2k]

My cure for this is to set my regular schedule to "keep" the shows I don't want to miss. Then, if I schedule a movie that might run me out of space, the movie gets deleted.I don't know if this has changed, but I believe in the early software releases there was a difference in behavior with the Keep Until I Delete settings ...

My understanding was that if you pressed BLUE on an item in the Playlist, it was marked KEEP with a blue (K) and would never be deleted by the DVR. However, if you created a series link with the Keep Until I Delete setting, the item would appear in the Playlist with a blue (K) but there were still circumstances where the DVR would delete the program.

To play it safe, I've always gone into the Playlist and pressed BLUE on any program I wanted to ensure was not deleted by the DVR. I know this doesn't help you in your current long-distance situation, but thought I'd bring this up for a future consideration.

[mtnsackett]

does anyone know if for the scheduler is there a way to schedule shows for off air channels, if not can we ask D* to add a way