[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Oct 2 09:38:01 UTC 2012


On 01/10/12 22:47, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> 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.
>
He says he only has the one tuner...

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Mike Perkins



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