[mythtv-users] Temporarily disable input?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/09/2008 01:53 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:43:37AM -0500, James Orr wrote:
>   
>> So, one of my comcast digital boxes has gone kaput.
>>
>> What is the easiest way to tell MythTV not to try to use it for a few days
>> until I get it replaced?  I don't want to delete it just to have it set it
>> all up again.
> Remove the association with a program source. 

If you have only one input on the capture card connected, however, 
deleting the capture card is the best bet (note that doing so will /not/ 
delete the video source, which is the only part that's "difficult" to 
set up--and then, not so difficult if you do it often enough that you 
remember how).

Myth doesn't like capture cards with unconnected inputs.  Though it may 
work for a while, it's quite likely that one day, your system will just 
stop recording because things get messed up.  I'd rather spend the 15 
seconds re-creating the capture card and 10 seconds re-connecting the 
input than risk recording failures.

And, even if you have to delete all capture cards when you add it back 
so you can re-connect inputs in the desired order (i.e. if the one 
you're temporarily removing isn't your least-preferred input), doing so 
shouldn't take much time--less than 1 minute for me to "Delete all 
capture cards" and then set up my 4 capture cards and connect 4 inputs 
in the desired order (alternating between 2 different backends so each 
backend shares the load better).

Mike