[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/01/2012 01:39 AM, Matt Goebel wrote:
> Even though she isn't usually watching it my wife *constantly* has 
> live TV on, and nearly always on a cable channel that I only have one 
> tuner for (HD-PVR /w one cable box).  It used to be that if an 
> upcoming recording needed to use that tuner it would popup a prompt 
> asking the person using the tuner for live TV if they wanted to watch 
> the show as it records/not record/ or exit live TV.  Recently it seems 
> the MythTV has broken and no longer prompts the user and just 
> continues playing the current live TV channel.  In mythweb it will 
> show the show it was supposed to record as "currently recording", 
> which you can't delete and only goes away after you restart the 
> backend.  The tuner status is shown correctly.  Recordings that don't 
> either don't conflict with live TV or don't happen when live TV is on 
> all work fine. I'm running mythtv-0.25.2-2.fc16.x86_64.
>
> Does anyone else have this issue or have an idea how to fix it 
> (besides re-training my wife as that doesn't work)?  I'm missing all 
> kinds of recordings.

Yes, the prompt is broken.  However, make sure your configuration is 
such that the Live TV and Schedule order for your capture cards is 
different--ideally reversed--to ensure that the first card chosen for 
Live TV is the last chosen for recordings and minimize the disruption 
caused by it.

Mike