[mythtv-users] live-tv

[Nick Morrott]

On 12/04/2009, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Yes, that is exactly what would happen.
>
> I ran into this problem when I lived at home with my parents. Being the kid
> with no real expenses my earnings from my part time job bought the HDTV. And
> I hooked it up to my Myth box.
>
> They would watch TV when I was not home and “shut it off” via the power
> button assuming that doing so also turned off live tv. I came home once from
> a weekend trip with like 24 hours + of recordings.
>
> One thing you could do, if you have a universal remote from someone like
> Logitech is program the off button to also send a signal to exit live tv.
> However, if you are not on live tv when shutting it off this may cause other
> problems.
>
> Marc
> ______________________________
> There's a mysql setting you can apply that will stop livetv if left idle for
> more that a set time.
>
> I set mine at 3 hours.

I'm pretty sure it's not available from within MythWeb to set in
0.21-fixes (it requires a manual database update), but see
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/321987 for the
details.

Nick

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