[mythtv-users] Backend recording liveTV I don't watch

[Jelle De Loecker]

Op vrijdag 17-10-2008 om 12:21 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef David
Watkins:
> On 17/10/2008, mat at lessermatters.co.uk <mat at lessermatters.co.uk> wrote:
> > >> I just had a look at my log and did a grep on Recording Finished and got
> > >> loads of stuff for today.
> > >>
> > >> So, I then logged onto my mythweb and check the live recordings and it
> > >> was
> > >> full of stuff. There's nobody home, so why is the system recording
> > >> 'live'
> > >
> > > You don't need to be at home for mythtv to record stuff.
> > >
> > > Presumably you or someone else left the system in 'Live TV' mode.
> > > MythTV works by recording everything.  Previous Live TV recordings are
> > > expired before anything else so you shouldn't lose any deliberate
> > > recordings.
> > >
> > How would anybody have left it in Live TV mode? I mean, I watched Live TV
> > for about 20 minutes last night, then switched off. Obviously the backend
> > was still running. How would I switch off Live Tv mode?
> Dunno, maybe your frontend didn't back out of LiveTV cleanly, or maybe
> there is someone watching your TV !  There's a plugin called
> MythZoneMinder for just this eventuallity.

I'm having the same problem, sometimes LiveTV just keeps "recording"
after someone has exited out of LiveTV mode.

Now, that wouldn't be that terrible, but combine this with the "livetv
doesn't care about multirec" bug and you're stuck on the same
transponder for the entire session.

And no, nobody is watching tv without me knowing.