[mythtv-users] Making channel skip work only at certain times

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

> On my BE/FE channel skipping seems to use too much CPU when I am
> trying to watch something so i turned it off.

You can set how much CPU user jobs use in mythtv-setup. That aside,  
commflagging uses a nice level that allows other more important  
processes will take whatever CPU they like before commflagging takes  
its piece.

> I then gave it a try on a couple of shows (made commflag run manually
> from mythweb) and I really like the result. It really is much better
> than skip fwd skip fwd skip fwd skip back blah blah.
>
> But, is there a way to get it to run only at certain times? Like maybe
> 1.00 am until 5.00 pm the next day (most of my watching is in the
> evening).

Yes. Look at the user jobs settings page in mythtv-setup.

-Brad