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This is a summary of kmttg Remote tab, Won't Record sub-tab.
NOTE: Unlike for other tabs in order to allow recording of shows on a different TiVo the table does not refresh when switching TiVo selections in this tab.
Displays list of all upcoming recordings that TiVo will not record (like View Recording History on your TiVo) and categorizes the shows into different folder names that describe why they won't be recorded. i.e. This is an easier way to find important recordings that won't record without having to wade through many reasons you don't care about (e.g. repeats).

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Select desired TiVo and click on the Refresh button to start a kmttg job to collect information from the TiVo. Once the job completes the table will be populated with Will Not Record list of entries obtained from the TiVo.
- NOTE: This task can take over a minute to complete, so be patient.
All entries are categorized into the different reasons TiVo returned why each recording would not be recorded. kmttg simply makes a tree entry out of each of the reasons and collects entries into their respective trees. You can then left click on arrow by a folder or double click a folder entry in the table to view all respective entries. This makes it much easier to only look at entries that you care about to find entries that won't record that you may want to take action on.
You can click on individual items to see additional information about each (information will be displayed in the kmttg main messages window).

Record button allows one to select individual shows shown in table to be scheduled to record on a series 4 or later TiVo. The scheduling attempt uses low priority such that will only record if no conflicts with other recordings exist. i.e. This provides a convenient way of scheduling recordings that were not to record on alternate series 4 or later TiVos if available.
When you press this button a Recording Options dialog will appear giving you option to set Keep until property as well as initial or end time padding to use for the recording.
There is also a Try scheduling on all TiVos option. If option is enabled then kmttg will successively try and schedule the selected recording on all available remote-enabled TiVos. Thus if scheduling fails on originally targeted TiVo due to conflicts, then successively try scheduling on other available TiVos instead.

This button can be used to list all the shows in conflict for entries under programSourceConflict folder. Select an individual show under programSourceConflict folder and click this button.
This button does nothing for shows in other folders as the reason for not recording for other cases is self-explanatory by the folder name.

Refresh ToDo list that is used to highlight shows that are already scheduled to record on another unit configured in kmttg. The ToDo list is only obtained automatically the first time it is needed so if you are modifying the ToDo list on 1 or more units it is useful to periodically use this button to refresh the list.
- NOTE: A single unified ToDo list is shared among Search, Guide and Won't Record tabs. This avoids obtaining ToDo lists multiple times for different tables.
- NOTE: For table entries that are flagged as being in ToDo list when you click on table entry the title printed to kmttg message window will show (to be recorded on tivoName) so that you know which TiVo this show is scheduled to record on without having to run/consult ToDo table.
- NOTE: The unified ToDo list will be refreshed automatically when needed if it has been at least 15 minutes since the last time it was refreshed. This avoids having to manually use this button to periodically refresh ToDo list if you have the kmttg GUI up for a long time.

Searches for all conflicts of type programSourceConflict on all RPC or Mind enabled TiVos and tries to automatically schedule them to record on alternate TiVos.
Will attempt to record on RPC enabled (series 4 or later) units only.
Associated with the above kmttg also supports a command line argument -c which can be used to run kmttg in batch mode to run the auto conflict resolver. That way you can setup a script to run it in batch mode and add the script to a scheduler to periodically run it automatically (say once a week) without having to run from the GUI.

When this boolean is enabled past history will be included in the table so that one can explore why certain shows of interest did not record in the past.