[mythtv-users] Parental recordings section

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Wed Sep 15 11:12:21 EDT 2004


Jeff C wrote:

>I have a feature idea I wanted to toss out to the group for discussion and
>consideration.
>
>I think it would be useful to be able to flag recordings as having a certain
>parental level (even if it was just off/on), just like you can tag videos in
>MythVideo so they don't appear without the password.
>
>I'm thinking of situations where the adults in the household want to record
>something that they don't want to be available to kids, or even be seen on
>the watch recordings screen.  The idea being that in addition to the normal
>show listings their would be a "Extended Listings" option which would prompt
>for a password.  The shows that were flagged with that parental control
>option would all be in there, either ordered by show name or by date,
>whatever works.  So you would loose the nice Show/Episode sorting inherent
>in the watch videos screen, but at least you would keep the kids out of
>anything they shouldn't be in.
>
>I'm interested to hear what others think, especially multi-machine/multi-kid
>households.
>
>  
>
I believe you can accomplish this with Recording groups and Group 
passwords.  Hit "M" or your MENU key in the Watch Recordings screen.

Kevin



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