[mythtv] Watch Live => automatic recording

[John P Poet]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 6:53 PM John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 5, 2022 at 2:52 PM David Engel <david at istwok.net> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 03:41:19PM -0400, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> >
>> > On 9/5/22 12:26, John P Poet wrote:
>> > > I am visiting my mom and updating her MythTV system. During testing I
>> > > have discovered that if you go to the Guide and "Watch this Channel",
>> > > when you exit LiveTV it continues to record that show. I have never
>> seen
>> > > this behavior before and cannot figure out how to turn it off.  Can
>> > > someone please tell me where that setting is? She is running master.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > John
>> > >
>> > >
>> > Hi John
>> >
>> > I don't think there is a setting for that.
>> >
>> > I just ran a test on latest master, from the guide ran "watch this
>> channel",
>> > watched for 2 minutes and exited. The recording ended as expected and
>> there
>> > is a two minute 18 second recording in the LiveTV group.
>> >
>> > There is also a 0 byte recording showing in the LiveTV group, that seems
>> > like a bug.
>> >
>> > The only way I can think that you saw it continue recording is if you
>> > invoked the "ToggleRecord"  button (default R) while playing, which
>> converts
>> > your live TV session into a permanent recording.
>>
>> I agree that ToggleRecord somehow got activated.  When activated, it
>> reserves that tuner for continued recording of the program until it
>> ends.  FWIW, there was an issue reported a while back about that
>> feature not working.  In the process of looking into it, I realized
>> how crazy the logic is and how badly it can interact with the
>> scheduler.  I could not reproduce the reported problem so I left
>> things as they were.  I still don't have a good solution on how to
>> better perform the record after starting live TV feature.
>>
>> David
>>
>
> It behaves the same every-single-time I watch a LiveTV show. When I exit
> out, it will show up in the Upcoming Recordings list and the tuner will be
> unavailable. This is with android frontend running on a Shield and the
> backend running on a low powered linux box. I will spend a bit more time
> trying to figure it out the next time I am over there.
>

I figured out the problem. Somehow the LiveTV recgroup was deleted. When
exiting LiveTV, myth checks if the recgroup is not LiveTV and assumes that
a recording is desired in that /other/ recgroup.

Now I just need to figure out why mythfrontend on the Shield seems to be
unable to download the themes.zip file.

John
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