[mythtv-users] Tuner Schedules

[Spencer Herzberg]

This would work well. So do you tell mythtv that you are not actually
recording the current program if the "control file" is present? Does your
channel change script do something like click "don't record" so it will
record later?

I like this idea because my schedule will still show up like its going to
record, it just wont. So the program would just record later.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Dave Pearson <lists at the-pearsons.co.uk>wrote:

>  On 17/03/11 02:50, Spencer Herzberg wrote:
>
> Hi, is there a way to easily setup schedules for tuners? So that say Tuner
> A can't record anything from 5pm to 1am, and Tuner B from 10am to 12pm?
>
>  My setup has my master backend in the bedroom and the hd receiver is
> hooked up to my tv through my hdpvr. We watch tv at night and the Miss
> doesn't like to use the Mythtv frontend for live tv (yet). If I could just
> schedule that tuner to not be available between 5pm and 1am, that would be a
> perfect fix until I can get her to use the mythtv frontend.
>
>  I have tried cron jobs with mythbackend --nosched but it seems that this
> will need to rebuild the recording schedules at the time the command is
> called which is not quite ideal. I want the tuner to not be available during
> certain time slots and this to be reflected in the "Upcoming Recordings"
> displays.
>
>  Thanks for the help!
>
>
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>  I have a similar situation with my Sky + box being used for live TV most
> of the time. The way I've got around this is to have the Channel Change
> Script check a control file to see if it is OK to change channel or not (in
> my case it's only OK if it's changing channel in order to record a program,
> not if it's a "live TV" channel change). You could easily modify your
> channel change script to check the Time of Day, or, if you wanted to be able
> to do the same as me you can use the "Recording Pending" event to set the
> flag in a control file. The "Recording Pending" event is triggered about 3
> or 4 time in the minute or two before the recording is due to start, you
> can't use the "Recording Started" event (as would seem to be the obvious
> trigger to use) because it is triggered even when Live TV is started.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Dave.
>
> Regards,
> Dave.
>
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