[mythtv-users] Problem with LiveTV and recordings colliding

[Johnny Walker]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Michael T. Dean
<mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 03/22/2011 01:03 PM, Per Lundberg wrote:
>> I tried the other day to start LiveTV for a particular channel which I
>> was also simultaneously recording from. This was refused, because all
>> available recorders was busy. The thing is, I could accept this if I
>> was trying to switch to another channel, but shouldn't I be able to
>> use LiveTV to watch a channel which is currently being recorded...?
>> This feels like a bug/oddness. Having to go to "Watch recordings" just
>> to watch LiveTV feels a bit silly. :-)
>>
>> I know the setting about "LiveTV is allowed to move recordings" but
>> this doesn't feel like exactly the same thing.
>
> The problem is that by definition, the Live TV instance has full control
> over the tuner and channel changes.
>
> In the past, this has come up many times, and we've always said that we
> would accept a patch that, when trying to enter Live TV with all tuners
> in use, pops up a dialog telling the user all tuners are in use and asks
> the user if he would like to go directly to Watch Recordings or watch a
> show as it records (complete with a list of all  the shows currently
> being recorded).  No one (dev or user) has been motivated enough to
> write such a patch, yet.
>
> Mike
>

That would actually be really helpful in my house.

Hmm...

-Johnny