[mythtv-users] Feature request

[Joseph H. Fry]

Sounds to me like a feature that should be implemented then... 

Obviously if there is a tuner unused you  would want to use it to
record... but if not, who would want to interrupt the frontend other
than the one that scheduled the recording... you know your wife or kid
or roommate could care less about the show that you want to record.

I have tv's in my office, and my roommates bedroom.  How difficult would
it be to have an entry in the database to store which frontend was used
to schedule the recording (maybe it's IP address), and then when myth
checks to see if there are available tuners and finds none it would
check to see if that particular frontend is in "live tv mode" and if so
it defaults to the tuner that it is using.

I can't imagine that it would be too much code... I know it's not a
simple change, but it's not a major one either I wouldn't think.

Not that I could do it... but if anyone is just trying to find their
next major contribution, give it a whirl!

Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Markey
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 4:51 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Feature request
> 
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
> >>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net]On Behalf Of Joseph H. Fry
> >>Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:51 AM
> >>To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
> >>Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Feature request
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Related question... say I have two frontends and a dual tuner
backend...
> >>both frontends are in live tv mode... which frontend will the
recording
> >>try to interrupt?  The one that scheduled the recording?  I would
prefer
> >>it be so if that's not the current default... as my roommate may be
into
> >>their show and not care that I wanted to record something, or vise
> >>versa!
> >
> >
> > I believe (I only have one tuner, so I'm not sure) it will attempt
to
> record
> > on the first available tuner; if both tuners are watching LiveTV, it
> will
> > interrupt the the lowest-numbered tuner (the one defined first in
the
> > database).  So, whichever frontend is watching LiveTV through that
tuner
> is
> > the one that will get the popup.  Can someone confirm?
> 
> Correct. The scheduler doesn't consider if a tuner is being
> used for live TV because there is no telling if that tuner
> will be in use when a future recording starts.
> 
> When starting live TV, it first checks if there is a tuner
> available on the same host as the frontend. If not, it checks
> for the first available tuner anywhere. If none, then an SOL
> messages is printed.
> 
> For recording, the first show is assigned to the first card,
> the next overlapping to the next card, etc. in the order the
> cards were added in setup. If someone is watching live TV on
> card 1 and there is one show to record, the user will be
> prompted even if there is another unused card.
> 
> There is no correlation between which frontend was used when
> choosing a show to record and which tuner is chosen when it is
> time to record.
> 
> --  bjm
> 
> 
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