[mythtv-users] Watching LiveTV while Recording

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Steven Adeff wrote:

> On 11/20/06, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 20, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Rich West wrote:
>>
>>> I have what I think might be a "Duh.. I missed that option" kind of
>>> question, but, since I couldn't seem to find an answer, I thought I
>>> would ask.
>>>
>>> I have a single BE/FE setup (temporary.. I plan on splitting it and
>>> having multiple recorders in the BE.. etc.etc.) with one PVR-150.
>>> Now,
>>> when the recorder is active and we go to select "Watch TV", it
>>> (obviously) complains that there is no available tuner, and, if I
>>> wanted
>>> to watch what was being recorded, I could go to the recordings page
>>> and
>>> select the current recording.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to configure it such that when you select "Watch  
>>> TV" in
>>> this situation that it either immediately bumps you to the
>>> "Recordings"
>>> page or that it lists out what each of the recorders is doing,  
>>> giving
>>> you the option to jump right to any one of the recorders?
>>>
>>> -Rich
>>
>> you can modify the menu xml to take you to the Recordings page. Or
>> you can simply remove LiveTV from the menu completely which I've done
>> for my daughter since I only want her watching what I've recorded for
>> her.
>
> Thats not quite what he's asking. What he's saying is, instead of
> giving the error message, to just jump to the recordings screen for
> the recording thats currently being recorded.
>
> It would be possible to do this, if someone wrote a patch for it. I
> know TiVo would just jump you into the recording at the current time.

Yeah, I mentioned the same request in another thread that went mostly  
unnoticed.