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I have a Topfield TRF-2400 which is doing stirling work.  I have been given another one and I would like to use it for those times when everything is happening at once.

I do not understand how IceTV handles this.  I have been using the topfield and an Elgato usb tuner which was easy to understand because they are different products. 

Under My Recorders in the IceTV Accounts area, the devices are identified only by model number.  I have not found an indentifier in the device setup that lets IceTV distinguish one Topfield TRF-2400 from another.

I have, of course, missed something obvious, and you, of course, can tell me what that is...
Thank you for your help.
Russ

With the Christmas entertainment void about to hit, I am facing my first off-season of IceTV scheduling.
I anticipate that it will be educational.  I am trying to reduce the annoyance factor.

This time of year is characterised by two phenomena:

• Days when there is nothing to record, so the recorder does not come out of standby, and so it does not pick up a new schedule;
• Periods of time when we are not here, but might want to schedule something using IceTV.

In combination, these two features cause a breakdown of the system - if there is not much to record, it does not start regularly so it does not find out that there actually _is_ something to record.

I have seen references in this fora to "view timers".  This is not a term that I cannot find elsewhere.  After some monkeying around with the Topfield, I see that there is a "Record - No" option at the top of the manually-created timer editor.  I presume that this is the fabled View Timer option?  It creates an entry qualified by the letter "P" instead of "R".

I have optimistically created such a timer to start every day at 5 pm and run for 35 minutes. 

I chose 5 pm because there is nothing that anyone over 4 would want to watch before 6 pm, so this is unlikely to cause trouble.  And given the parlous state of modern news broadcasting, I would say that probably extends to 7pm.

I chose 35 minutes because I read somewhere that the topfield does not (or is believed to not, or perhaps is thought or suspected to not) poll for 30 minutes after it is awakened.

So in principle, the Topfield should awake at 5pm because no-one in their right mind would be actually using it at that hour, amuses itself watching the channel ten "news" (as they call their best-of review of the day's tweets and facebook accidents) until 5:30pm, download the latest schedule changes if any, mull over them for five minutes then go back to standby.

Does this seem like a satisfactory solution?
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
PG