[mythtv-users] Recording Pending System Event

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:27:08 -0500, you wrote:

>Greetings!
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>I’ve been scouring the forum and the wiki/documentation pages to find more information out about the Recording Pending system event.  The others, such as Recording Started, Recording Finished, etc are really self-explanatory.  However, Pending leaves me guessing.
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>When does it fire?  Is it 1 minute before a recording starts, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or a variable I can specify somewhere?
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>The documentation on the System Events is great to list all of them, but some more details about each one would be really helpful.
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>Any ideas?
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>Best,
>Mike

I am not sure it is documented anywhere, but on my system it seems to
happen about a minute before the start of the recording.  To be sure,
you would need to put a command on the pending event and on the
recording started event and log when they happen.  My impression of
the pending event was that it was to allow you to do things like spin
up a drive or make sure a network connection was available before it
was going to be used for a recording.  When I was working out how to
use the events for what I was doing, I put a command on each event and
got them all to log to the same file.  That really helped in working
out what parameters worked with each event also.