[mythtv-users] Stop recording live TV when inactive

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:

> On Aug 31, 2007, at 9:12 AM, David Meixner wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to automatically stop recording live TV if there’s
>> been no user interaction for a certain amount of time?  For
>> example, if there’s been no button presses for an hour, the
>> frontend will return to the main menu.  I ask because sometimes
>> people will turn off the television without exiting live TV so the
>> backend continues to record and takes up hard drive space.
>>
>
> No, but I solved that problem with a Harmony remote. When I press the
> power off button on my remote, it sends a signal to turn off the TV
> and receiver and sends a signal to bring Myth to the main menu. If
> you don't want to buy a harmony or some other similar macro-capable
> remote (I had a $20 one from radio shack that did simple macros), you
> might be able to make your IR receiver recognize the TV off command
> and bring myth to the main menu when it gets it.

I just thought of a hack way to do what you want. You could use irw  
 > /var/log/irw.log and then use a 1 minute cron job or some other  
script to check the last modified date of irw.log and if it's more  
than x minutes ago, send a command to the frontend to jump to the  
main menu.