[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

[Michael T. Dean]

On 10/02/2012 05:38 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> 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...

Ah, missed that.  Then the best solution (even if the prompt weren't 
broken) is to get additional tuner(s).  With the prompt broken, it's the 
only workaround.

Mike