[mythtv-users] Cancel recording to watch Live TV

[Chris Adams]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:03 AM, James Thorpe <james at pawsforthorpe.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 15 Aug 2010, at 14:26, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
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>> On Sunday, August 15, 2010 07:14:05 am Greg wrote:
>>> On 08/15/2010 07:12 AM, James Thorpe wrote:
>>>> All,
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>>>> I have a single tuner.  A use case in our house that's currently
>>>> affecting the WAF is if it's currently recording a show, is there a
>>>> simple way to cancel/override it with the remote in order to watch
>>>> live tv?  The show it's recording is available to record at least 3
>>>> subsequent times, so it's not an issue to cancel it.
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>>> You could allow it to keep recording and go in to the Watch Recordings
>>> and watch it there while it's recording.. There is no live TV with with
>>> Mythtv it's all recorded...
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>> Sounds like he wants to be able to watch something else beside what's being recorded.
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>> I know it goes against the Myth philosophy, but he could set things up to send the RF feed to the TV set directly, and
>> watch "live" that way, while the recording continues. This obviously won't work if an STB of some sort is required, and a
>> second one is not available.
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>> Of course the first complaint would be "why can't I pause, rewind etc. and why am I seeing all those commercials?".
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>> Canceling and re-recording would also work, I'm not sure of the best way to do that, it's never come up for me.
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> Indeed - need to cancel one thing to watch another.  Myth is the only source of TV in this setup, so cant bypass directly to the TV.  We're planning on getting another tuner card in a month or so, so this issue should go away, but any other tips in the meantime would be appreciated!
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> Cheers,
> James.

If you know your planned LiveTV times (eg. evenings 6-11pm), you can
set "Do not record this showing" for anything scheduled during those
times and for which re-runs exist.

How's your script-fu? :-) if you can't find a function in the python
bindings, curl and mythweb should be able to stand in.