[mythtv-users] using mythtv as clockradio

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Michael,

Wednesday, January 20, 2016, 8:56:29 PM, you wrote:

> On 01/20/2016 02:29 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>> I did experiment somewhat. First I have on this frontend set live tv
>> to start in the Guide. And now both 'Live TV' and
>> 'Live TV In Guide' do the last one. This is NOT logical as there
>> are two distinct events!

> Yep.  Sounds like you've found yet another broken setting--it's a 
> setting that changes an Action (or, in this case, a Jump Point) rather
> than just having the user map/call the appropriate one.  The setting 
> needs to be removed and mappings adjusted (on each frontend) based on 
> the current value (on each frontend) in a DB update.

> Mike
> _______________________________________________

How do I find out if it will end-up in the Guide if I send
'...:6547/Frontend/SendAction?Action=Live%20TV' to the api? The state
returned through '...:6547/Frontend/GetStatus' in both cases returns
'WatchingLiveTV' and I do not directly see if and how I could check or
change this setting.
If the guide view is enabled I have to sleep 2 seconds after sending
the 'Live TV' command, send 'SELECT', again sleep for 2 seconds and
then I can send the new channel number. That is if the script in some
way could know it is necessary.
Nicer would be if I could check the setting, disable it if set, start
live TV and then either directly reset the setting to original or keep
polling until live TV ends to do it then.


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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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