What is the purpose of "Resolved Conflicts"

[stuckless]

Tonight I see an icon in my top bar, which is a green tv with checkmark. I've seen this before, and I know it has something to do with conflicts, so I go the "resolve conflicts" menu and it's telling me that I have "6 Resolved recording conflicts". What's the purpose of this? Why would I care? or, should I be acting on this, somehow? It's rather confusing to tell me that I have some resolved conflicts that are resolved.

I'll be honest, I do find the conflict resolution stuff in sagetv to be quite confusing, and this screen is even more confusing, since I'm not sure if I need to do something

[BobPhoenix]

Edit. Removed because Fuzzy said it better than I did/could. Also some of my additional comments were not helpful.

[stuckless]

I fully understand what an unresolved conflict is... and I've had a couple over the years... but I just see why it needs to tell me about auto-resolved ones... I mean it figured it out, I don't need to know I just want to know when it can't figure it out.

[EnterNoEscape]

Originally Posted by stuckless

I fully understand what an unresolved conflict is... and I've had a couple over the years... but I just see why it needs to tell me about auto-resolved ones... I mean it figured it out, I don't need to know I just want to know when it can't figure it out.

I really do understand your confusion. I normally see the resolved conflict indicator when I have in the past actively intervened to resolve a conflict for a show. Future applications of that intervention seem to always show the resolved conflict indicator. I too am a little puzzled about why I would need to know this information.

[Opus4]

The way I look at it is: whether the resolved conflict is because of user interaction or an auto-resolved conflict due to past interaction, the resolved conflict is still a conflict, which means something won't be recorded and the user ought to know.

And over the years, as my kids have gotten older and no longer watch certain shows, conflicts that were resolved one way in the past are now resolved a different way when they show up... which sometimes means: "oh yeah, no one watches that show any more, so I can removed hte Favorite."

Andy

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Opus4

The way I look at it is: whether the resolved conflict is because of user interaction or an auto-resolved conflict due to past interaction, the resolved conflict is still a conflict, which means something won't be recorded and the user ought to know.

And over the years, as my kids have gotten older and no longer watch certain shows, conflicts that were resolved one way in the past are now resolved a different way when they show up... which sometimes means: "oh yeah, no one watches that show any more, so I can removed hte Favorite."

Andy

Then I guess I'm utterly confused, now So, the Green icon, with a checkmark, means that I will miss a recording unless I do something? I thought that it meant that "hey, I found a conflict, but i was able to resolve it for you. have a nice day". I guess I should go back into the "resolved conflict" screen and then figure out what to do there.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by stuckless

Then I guess I'm utterly confused, now So, the Green icon, with a checkmark, means that I will miss a recording unless I do something? I thought that it meant that "hey, I found a conflict, but i was able to resolve it for you. have a nice day". I guess I should go back into the "resolved conflict" screen and then figure out what to do there.

Aren't you glad you asked?

Yes -- the green or red conflict notification means there really is a conflict and something won't be recorded. If the scheduler can rearrange things such that all desired recordings can be accommodated, then by definition there are no conflicts.

The green conflict icon just means that there has been a choice made as to what show should be recorded and what should be skipped -- usually based on Favorites' relative priorities. More info starts on p. 78 of the v7.0 manual.

Andy

[stuckless]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Aren't you glad you asked?

Yes -- the green or red conflict notification means there really is a conflict and something won't be recorded. If the scheduler can rearrange things such that all desired recordings can be accommodated, then by definition there are no conflicts.

The green conflict icon just means that there has been a choice made as to what show should be recorded and what should be skipped -- usually based on Favorites' relative priorities. More info starts on p. 78 of the v7.0 manual.

Andy

Maybe that's part of my confusion... it's green with a checkmark... 2 things that usually indicate things are OK... but in this case green really means red, and checkmark means x.... but that's not confusing at all Today I go in there and the "green" icon with a checkmark is yellow with a checkmark...

I have to say the conflict resolution stuff in sagetv has mystified me for years But I think I understand it now... No matter the color and postive indicators.... resolved or unresolved... I'm going to miss a recording of something.

[KryptoNyte]

When a tuner disappears from the SageTV system for whatever reason, I occasionally get the Unresolved recording conflicts, if the loss of one of my tuners creates a conflict. I don't recall, but I wonder what happens when I get the tuner back up and running? I can't remember if the unresolved conflicts message just disappears, or if it gives a second message to confirm resolution.

[Fuzzy]

Resolved conflicts are conflicts that the user has made a determination on how to deal with it. Unresolved conflicts, the user has not weighed in on how to deal with it, so sage will do what it thinks best (based on favorite priorities). When you go to an unresolved conflict, the options it gives you are how you 'resolve' the conflict - it doesn't mean you've avoided the conflict, because if it was avoidable, sage would have done that already for you - it just means you've approved of how it is going to proceed.