[mythtv-users] Events at the beginning of a recording

[James B Huber]

Shoot me for top posting again.

I use both of these "pending" and "started" events with my
FREEBOX tuner, which is really just
STB -> IPTV_Encoder -> NETWORK-CONNECTION-> Mythtv (FREEBOX)

I control the STB tuning this way, and my actual channel chager scripts
check if the STB is on FIRST, if it is not they turn it on.


I log everything.

I get a "recording-pending" event 60 seconds BEFORE the recording is
due to start (which my scripts, attached in my first reply on this)
ignore. I get a second "recording-pending" event ~30 seconds BEFORE the
recording is due to start (which my scripts play a countdown on and
actually call the channel-changer script (to power on the box and set
the channel).
  Then right at the tim the recording starts I get a single "recording-
started" event...

  This has been this way for a few years, from v29 -> v30 -> v31 (which
is what I am currently running).

Jim

On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 17:31 +0100, Jan Ceuleers wrote:
> On 24/01/2023 20:46, Ian Cameron wrote:
> > As far as I know, the recording pending events are fired
> > asynchronously.  There is no waiting for them to finish, rather,
> > they
> > are expected to have successfully done their job before MythTV
> > starts
> > recording (including the pre-roll).  On my system I consistently
> > see
> > recording pending events triggered at 94, 60 and 29 seconds before
> > the
> > pre-roll is due to start.
> 
> I don't see that. What I see is as follows:
> 
> Only one recording-pending event is triggered, not three as you
> observe
> on your system.
> 
> The order I see is as follows:
> 
> 1. The recording-started event is triggered first, almost
> simultaneously
> with the mythexternalrecorder's tuner command (at "second 0").
> 
> 2. The recording-pending event is triggered next, at "second 5". So 5
> seconds after the recording has already started.
> 
> Do you know whether these timings are parameters that I may have
> misconfigured in the database? My database is quite old and has been
> upgraded many times over the 15+ years that it has been in use.
> 
> Also, assuming I can get these events into the correct order, my
> situation is that I need to power up the set-top box, and it takes
> quite
> some time to boot to a condition in which it is able to accept
> infrared
> commands (i.e. able to change channels).
> 
> Cheers, Jan
> 
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