[mythtv] "All Tuners busy" dialog

Roo roo.watt at gmail.com
Wed Jan 23 21:13:21 UTC 2008


On 24/01/2008, James Hood <ebenblues at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has there been a discussion on making the mythfrontend behavior a little
> more intuitive when you select "Watch TV" while all tuners are recording?
> Today, it pops up a dialog box with a long message (with small font) saying
> all tuners are busy and if you want to watch an in-progress recording, you
> have to go to the "Watch Recordings" area. It's not very user friendly and
> baffled/frustrated my wife the first time she saw it.
>
> When a user selects "Watch TV", it can be assumed that they want to...watch
> a show. So what if mythfrontend automatically started displaying the end of
> an in-progress recording if all tuners are busy?

Well, you will please to know that the devs have pre-empted your
request and have already implemented this in trunk (I am assuming you
are using 0.20). ;)

If you are running 0.20 then you will not have long to wait as a
release is expected before the end of March.

HTH,

Roo.


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