[mythtv-users] Pre-recording Script?

[Martin Compton]

On 01/10/2018 01:04 PM, Jon Boehm wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a very slow drive and I allow it to spin down.  One of those 
> drives that are best used only for archiving.  Normally its fine for 
> recordings, but sometimes I get failed recording because, I theorize, 
> that I have a buffer overflow when the drive needs to spin up AND I 
> have multiple recordings starting at the same time.  My recording are 
> coming from an HDHomerun in h264.
>
> Is there a pre-recording script that can fire, say, 1-minute before a 
> recording is scheduled?  All I want it to do is touch a dummy file in 
> the recording directory.  I only have 1 recording directory so I don't 
> even need to think about which dir/drive needs to be touched.
>
> Thanks for the help
There is a "Recording pending" event that you can intercept.  IIRC, the 
event script is triggered 2-3 times every 30 seconds about 90 seconds 
before a recording starts.  I use it to wake-up the STB if it isn't 
already recording.  Using that for a 'touch' script should satisfy your 
need.