[mythtv-users] Parental Controls -- Time of Viewing

[Karl Newman]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Dan Wilga <
mythtv-users2 at dwilga-linux1.amherst.edu> wrote:

> On 2/11/15 4:10 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>
>> Hoi Mark,
>>
>> Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 10:02:08 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>  On 12 Feb 2015, at 2:16 am, "George Galt" <george.galt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> All:
>>>>
>>>> I've searched the wiki and the archives, but I can't seem to find how
>>>> to accomplish my goal.  My goal is to prohibit viewing of recorded programs
>>>> and videos during certain hours.  My problem is my son is waking up early
>>>> (about 4:00 a.m.) and has discovered he can watch MythTV.
>>>>
>>>> AFAICT, the parental controls available simply limit which recording
>>>> groups can be watched by kids (or without a pin).  There doesn't seem to be
>>>> any ability to prohibit viewing during certain hours.  Am I missing
>>>> something?
>>>>
>>>> If this capability isn't available, I'm assuming it would be reasonably
>>>> easy to modify playbackbox.cpp so that when launching the player it can
>>>> check the local time and return if it is within a prohibited period.  Is
>>>> this the correct file to look in?
>>>>
>>>> I'm on 27.4-2 from RPMFusion.and Fedora 21 x86_64.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> George
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>> I know I am not answering your question (I don't know the answer) -
>>> but a quick-n-dirty hack might be to run a cron job late at night to
>>> add / change the pins on the kids recording groups and then another
>>> cron job in the morning to remove the pins.
>>> I haven't tried it, just a thought. One of the MySQL guru's might
>>> chip in with what the command line would look like?
>>> _______________________________________________
>>>
>> I was thinking more in the line of stopping and starting the backend
>> service on a cronjob. If there is no backend running he can boot-up
>> any frontend, but he won't get anything!
>>
> But, with the backend stopped, there won't be anything new recorded during
> those hours.
>

What about the low-tech solution of just putting the remote away somewhere
at night? He could maybe still turn on the TV but not actually watch
anything.

Karl
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