[mythtv-users] livetv vs recordings tuner use

[Brad DerManouelian]

John Finlay wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> John Finlay wrote:
>>   
>>> I started a livetv session by mishandling the remote when the tv was off 
>>> and so it was recording for a few hours. Meanwhile I had set up mythtv 
>>> to record a program during that time period. I noticed that the 
>>> recording didn't happen because the tuner was in use with the livetv. I 
>>> have two identical tuners and at the time the other wasn't being used. I 
>>> would have expected mythtv by default to notice that the other tuner 
>>> wasn't being used and was capable of recording the program and then 
>>> switched to using the other tuner. Is there a setting to allow that 
>>> behavior?
>>>
>>> I'm using mythbuntu with 20.2.
>>>
>>> John
>>>     
>> There's a setting to allow LiveTV to reschedule recordings. Don't recall 
>> exactly where it is off hand. However, it should have prompted you with 
>> a dialog box that said something like, "Hey.. I need to record. Do you 
>> want to watch while I record, exit to the main menu and let me record or 
>> cancel the recording and keep watching TV?" (not in those words). The 
>> default which is accepted after a short time is to watch while it 
>> records so your program should have recorded. Not sure why it didn't.
>>   
> It might have prompted me but the tv was off and the livetv was started 
> by accident. I was hoping mythtv would automatically switch to using an 
> available tuner instead of the one that it had allocated. My thinking 
> was that the tuners that using the same source, etc. would be treated as 
> a pool that could be selected from by mythtv when recording needed to be 
> done.

Right, but you need to trigger a reschedule so MythTV knows you have 
changed the state of that tuner from available to in use and it should 
reschedule the recording.

Again, if it prompted you, the default action would have happened if you 
didn't answer and the tuner would have changed channels and recorded 
what it was supposed to record originally.

You should figure out why that didn't happen. It was put in place to 
avoid this exact situation.