[mythtv-users] Blocking out scheduler (Was: Upgrade plan)

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jul 20 19:24:33 UTC 2013


On 07/19/2013 06:05 PM, Tony Sauri wrote:
> On 20/07/13 05:48, Simon Hobson wrote:
>> As an aside to this, and it is related, does anyone have any ideas 
>> for how to "tell the scheduler" I'd like it to not schedule any 
>> recordings for "a while" ?
>>
>> I don't mean something as brutal as just clearing the listings - 
>> something a bit more intelligent. Ideally I'd like to make it so it 
>> thinks it has no tuners free for (say) the next day - and then it 
>> would either schedule a later showing, or flag a conflict ? That way 
>> I could see if there's anything "essential" coming up and plan my 
>> downtime accordingly. If I just deleted the listings, then I'd almost 
>> certainly miss recordings that I want.
>> The only way I can think of would be to manually add two dummy muxes, 
>> with one channel each, and manually schedule a high priority 
>> recording off both of them for the period of interest. That would tie 
>> up both tuners leaving nothing free. I'm using two tuners, both with 
>> multirec, on UK Freeview (DVB-T).
>>
>
> The thought I had was to flip the "Visible" field using the 
> channel-info  display of Mythweb.
>
> I know it will suppress most activity of the channel but I have never 
> tested to see if it stops scheduling too.

Better would be to set all the recording rules to inactive.  This is the 
approach designed for use when going on vacation or whatever.

There's also a command-line switch, but it's meant for development and 
can have some extra effects, too, so use at your own risk (and live with 
the results :).

Mike


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