[mythtv-users] Finding gaps in the MythTV recording schedule to do maintenance in

[Michael T. Dean]

On 04/19/2017 06:55 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
> I never actually got as far as doing it, but I was thinking of adding dummy muxes & channels so that I could create a manual recording per tuner card and thus force the scheduler to look for alternative showings of anything scheduled during my planned maintenance window. With the way muxes are, and multi-rec, it's really hard (impossible ?) to force this without some dummy channels.

You can always set one-time "don't record" overrides for the shows 
scheduled during the period that tell MythTV to skip that showing. It 
would be a lot easier than creating dummy muxes or otherwise messing 
with things that affect/could affect the system even when you don't need it.

Mike