[mythtv-users] How to mark a tuner as "never use to record"

[William Munson]

Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I have been trying to get my HDHOMERUN working ever since Christmas.  
> It has been a nightmare!  I want it available for testing, but I want 
> to make sure MythTV never tries to record from it.  Right now I have 
> its video source (mythtv-setup>Input Connections)set to none, so it 
> has no guide information.  This works, but I'd like to work on getting 
> the zap2it guide info to link up to the scanned channels.  I have to 
> keep changing that setting (and stopping the backend/recording in the 
> process) as I go from usage mode to tinkering mode.  This is suboptimal.
>
> How can the be better achieved?
>

If myth knows about it, myth will use it. Sorry.

Only way I know is to create two mythconverg databases. One that is your 
real database and a testing database. Use mysqldump to dump your real 
database whenever you want to do testing. Drop the database and load 
your testing database for testing sessions. When done, drop and load 
your real database. Be sure to delete any recordings you make during 
testing or your recordings folder will be full of orphaned recordings. 
It would not hurt to even use a different recordings folder for the 
testing database.