[mythtv-users] Putting A Recording Rule To Sleep

[Michael T. Dean]

On 11/25/2009 04:28 PM, Brett wrote:
> I recently thought of a feature similar to this option that would 
> allow an input source to be temporarily disabled without completely 
> removing its definition. 
>
> For example, I have two DCT6200 cable boxes connected to Myth through 
> two PVR-150s.  There are times that I use one of the 6200s for 
> On-Demand viewing.  It would be nice to be able to quickly disable one 
> of the boxes from within MythFrontend so that it would not attempt to 
> record anything when On-Demand is being viewed.

EXECTV action in the menu.  It need not do anything useful--could just 
pop up a terminal running a shell command, "read" (waiting for you to 
hit enter on the terminal after you finish with VOD.

Mike