[mythtv-users] Tuner Schedules

[Simon Hobson]

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
A: Top-posting.

Spencer Herzberg wrote:

>>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.

>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?

The problem I see with this is that the scheduler will work on the 
assumption that a tuner is available - and so the recording you 
cancel may be the later showing. SO the scheduler passes up an 
opportunity to record a show because it knows it's repeated later - 
and then you cancel the later recording. The end result is that you 
don't record either showing - while it's quite possible that the 
earlier showing could have been recorded.

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