[mythtv-users] Reserving an encoder for an external program?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> I'd like to use my MythTv box to record radio programs from the FM
> tuner in my PVR-500.  My understanding is that the stock MythTV build
> doesn't include support for scheduling radio recordings, so I'd like
> to use an external program to accomplish this task.
>
> The obvious requirement is that I find some way to do this that
> doesn't conflict with existing scheduled recordings.
>
> I'm hoping that there's some way to schedule "idle time" for an
> encoder in advance, or otherwise ask MythTV to leave an encoder alone
> at specific times so that it can be used by an external program.  Or,
> I guess, somehow shoehorn MythTV into doing all this for me.  I'm
> running MythTV 0.19.
>   
While not straightforward, you could easily combine the telnet support 
in mythfrontend with a menu option to use EXECTV on the frontend to run 
a mythfrontend session on your backend or another machine where you use 
scripted telnet to walk through the menus to the EXECTV menu item which 
ties up a tuner and then return when your radio program is done.

Kevin