[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:07:58 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/21/2010 01:47 PM, jedi wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:27:19PM +1000, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> >>> With respect, Mike, this entirely misses the point that was made. Okay,
> >>> so you keep 1 or 2 of the most recent tornado warnings to watch
> >>> whenever you find it convenient. When are you going to watch these?
> >>> After your house has been flattened? After the insurance guy has paid
> >>> out? The key word in that posting was *temporal*. Stuff you need to
> >>> know about /now/.
> >>
> >> And his point is that you either watch the news or you don't. If
> >> you're in the habit of watching something with MythTV, you should set
> >> it to record so the the scheduler knows about it - ie. if you watch
> >
> >      How precisely do you propose to schedule severe weather reports?
> >
> > [deletia]
> >
> >      Engineering a "MythTV bypass" while certainly easy enough to do is
> > not something that is obvious to many people (or even possible to some).
> > It's also rather disappointing that it's even necessary.
> 
> The point is that you should not use Live TV for severe weather alert
> information--because it /necessarily/ requires you to be viewing a
> channel at a specific time when they give the information.  You
> should--as soon as you decide you want to know about the severe
> weather--start recording from each channel providing information
> regarding the alert (or your favorite X channels or whatever).  Then,
> you can flip between recordings (using the menu or using JUMPPREV or
> PREVCHAN (H))--just like surfing in Live TV--*but* you don't have to
> actually be viewing the channel when they give the important
> information.  Most channels will overlap the useful info.
> 
> I do this all the time with hurricanes.  It works--and /much/ better
> than Live TV.

If you want severe weather alerts getting a WeatherAlert (r) type radio is 
probably the best solution. I wouldn't depend on TV, especially cable, for 
such alerts, severe weather tends to do bad things to cable systems and 
satellite antennas.