[mythtv-users] how to remove "schedule recordings" menu item

[Joseph Fry]

>> Hello all,
>> I'm trying to prevent my family from recording items and since there is no
>> built in ability to password protect that menu item my only hope is to
>> remove it from the machines they have access to. I read on an much older
>> thread someone suggesting to someone else with a similar issue that they
>> just remove that item from the menu but for the life of me I can't figure
>> out where/how to do it.
>> I assume they are hard coded into the mythfrontend.real binary?
>> I checked the sql database for any mention of this menu item but did not
>> see anything.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>
> See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Menu_theme_development_guide .  In short,
> copy the appropriate mainmenu.xml from the MythTV installation area
> (possibly /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu/mainmenu.xml) into ~/.mythtv/
> and edit it as you see fit.
>
> However, watch out for the "Schedule" submenu in the Playback OSD menu.  In
> 0.27 you will be able to customize (i.e. remove) that, but not in 0.26 or
> earlier.

Not to promote it, but you could always use XBMC, or a UPNP player on
that TV.  Wouldn't be able to watch livetv, but you could play
recordings and videos all day long without fear that they would
disrupt anything.