[mythtv-users] Can the scheduler be made to treat certain sources as blacklisted for certain times?

Jim Stichnoth stichnot at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 18:34:38 UTC 2014


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Jack Perveiler <perveilerj at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My stupid cable box reboots between 2 and 3 AM every morning.  I have a
> working script that detects when it is off and turns it back on
> automatically but that doesn't really help in-progress recordings.  And
> finding out 60 minutes into watching a movie that the cable box suddenly
> went offline right in the middle of the recording is pretty frustrating :)
>
> Is there a way to have the scheduler just NOT schedule anything for those
> times?  Per-source or encoder would be ideal but even something as coarse
> as globally disabling all recordings during those times would be fine too.
>
> I could always set up a recurring manual recording for a channel I know
> only exists on the cable box video source at that time and just ignore what
> it records but I was hoping there was something more built-in/graceful than
> that.  My googling hasn't found anything but I was hoping someone here knew
> better.
>
> I have a DISH Network receiver that does this at 3am every day.  I created
a recording rule called "DISH blackout" for some valid DISH channel, daily
recording from 2:59am-3:01am, recording priority 99, keep at most one
episode, expire old and record new, into some recording group I don't care
about.  So, sorry, but I don't think it gets more graceful than that. :)

(I actually use the Deleted recording group, but that takes some hackery to
work around the MythTV safety logic...)

Jim
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