[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/20/2010 05:18 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> mugginz wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:39:50 am Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>> On 04/19/2010 05:04 PM, mugginz wrote:
>>>> Now I've also done this after reading the paragraph ending with
>>>> "So, although you have 3 capture cards and could,
>>>> therefore, tune 3 multiplexes, due to a combination of recording rule
>>>> priorities and your "I love LiveTV"/"I don't want to press NEXTCARD"
>>>> configuration, you've already exhausted the 3 capture cards and are
>>>> wasting one by tuning the same mux that another was using. "
>>>>
>>>> 1. "Avoid conflicts between LiveTV and recordings" is already 
>>>> unchecked.
>>>> 2. Delete all capture cards.
>>>> 3. Add each card, one at a time, each with Max Tuners = 3
>>>> 4. Connect inputs. Each card is now connected to the DigitalTV input.
>>>> 5. Go back through and one by one change each tuners Max Tuners = 4
>>>>
>>>> Now I start the FE, go into setup and enable "Avoid conflicts between
>>>> LiveTV and recordings"
>>>>
>>>> 6. There were no recordings in progress or scheduled to be recorded at
>>>> this stage.
>>>> 7.  Begin watching LiveTV
>>>>
>>>> Now for the recording bit again.
>>>>
>>>> 8. Change to channel 7
>>>> 9. Press 'R' to begin recording it.
>>>> 10. Change to channel 9.
>>>> 11 Press 'R' to begin recording it.
>>>> 12. Press up arrow to go to channel 10 and press enter to make it the
>>>> current channel.  MythTV refuses to change to 10, and instead goes 
>>>> back
>>>> to channel 9 and at this point arrow keys only allow selecting 
>>>> channels
>>>> from the channel 9 mux.
>>> 13. Press whatever key you've bound to NEXTCARD.
>>>
>> That's what I'm getting at.  It appears that there's no way to get it 
>> to intelligently select a tuner by itself.
>>
> To emphasise the point: why should the wife/etc. know that the normal 
> process of up or down/find channel select suddenly changes under 
> random circumstances to require her to press a totally different key 
> to allow her to select a channel?

Because you said, "If it doesn't change channel when you choose a 
different channel, hit this button."

> She will probably not know (or care) at that point that all tuners are 
> busy with recordings. She's just going to ask: "Why do I have to do it 
> this way sometimes and this other way other times?"

But she doesn't have to know when to do it with NEXTCARD...  The simple 
fact that it doesn't change channel the other way will tell her to try 
the next card.

Mike