[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

[Scott harris]

>>>> 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...
>>

>and even if he didn't it wouldn't matter, if the tuner he is watching
>live tv on HAS to be the one recording, it will still be put in the
>LiveTV group and not the group the recording schedule says it should
>be in, AND if he were to exit LiveTV while it's recording, the
>recording would stop.

>I've just upgraded one of my systems to 0.26 so will be able to report
>back if this has truly been fixed shortly.

I can tell you that as of today's Mythbuntu 0.26 builds, it is not fixed. 
Though, exiting Live TV will not delete the recording (it actually records 2 
copies of the show, using two tuners).  It still changes the Recording Group 
of the scheduled program to "Live TV"