[mythtv-users] Parental Controls -- Time of Viewing

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:46 PM, George Galt <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
> All:
>
> I've searched the wiki and the archives, but I can't seem to find how to
> accomplish my goal.  My goal is to prohibit viewing of recorded programs and
> videos during certain hours.  My problem is my son is waking up early (about
> 4:00 a.m.) and has discovered he can watch MythTV.


Your house, your rules, but I will offer that attempting to use
technical controls to try to enforce behavior is the wrong way
to do it.  Eventually (maybe not even eventually) individuals (or
their friends, or their friends friends) learn the ways to bypass
the technical controls, and think of themselves as special.
If one's goal is to encourage learning, problem solving, and
hacking, then adding in technical controls (increasing in
difficulty over time) might be a good plan.  But if the goal
is to actually change the actions, I would suggest that
defining the desired and expected behavior, defining the
consequences of not following that behavior, and then
follow-through is a better training and learning approach.