[mythtv-users] Restrict tuner usage at a given time

Steve Harrington mythlist at the-harringtons.org
Mon Aug 17 00:35:08 UTC 2009


Phill Wiggin wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Steve Harrington 
> <mythlist at the-harringtons.org <mailto:mythlist at the-harringtons.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all -
> 
>     I have a tuner (HD-PVR) that I would like to _not_ record from
>     3-3:30 AM every day as that is the time the Dish receiver grabs
>     listings for the next day.  Is there a way to do this for this one
>     tuner besides looking at the upcoming recordings?
> 
>     Thanks!
>     _______________________________________________
> 
> 
> If there's no internal Myth way of doing it, you could always write up 2 
> cron jobs.. one that stops Myth at 2:59, and one that starts Myth at 
> 3:31.  Then Myth'd just reschedule anything it missed. Though I suppose 
> it could cause problems if a recording is in-progress.
> 
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Thanks, but then my two HDHomeRuns would not be able to record as well. 
  Maybe I'll ask for this as a feature request.


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