[mythtv-users] MythTv and Camera: Initiating recording on some action

[Colin Smillie]

On Apr 11, 2005 3:49 AM, Pancham Gupta <pgupta at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Anybody has an idea on how to go about in achieving the same? I am relatively new to MythTv. My best guess is that we need to call some MythTV API to initiate the recording, once we detect the RFID tag. I would really appreciate if anybody could let me know the same.

Ok, what are you using the detect the RFID tag?  Assuming you have
linux drivers for the RFID reader you can probably pass a keyboard cmd
or maybe create a lirc loop back to initiate a record now command.

Alternatively you could add a command line interpreter to accept a
record command when you get the RFID trigger. I don't believe there
are any mythtv CLI options today.

Also I think you'll want to disable the live buffer.  From what I
remember it doesn't get recorded even after a record command has been
received.