[mythtv-users] Remote recorder advice

[Stephen Worthington]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:14:40 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Thanks for the software suggestions. I'll look into them in more detail.
>Not being able to scan for channels does sound like a pain. I'm in the UK,
>with both Freeview and Freesat tuners. Freeview would probably be ok as it
>has far fewer channels and doesn't change as often, but things changed
>pretty frequently on Freesat.
>
>Wake on lan works extremely reliably for me. It wakes the backend every
>time when the frontend boots. My question was more about whether MythTV
>could use WOL to wake up a remote tuner, or if it expected them to always
>be running.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew

Tuners are expected to always be available.  But you can always add a
event script for when mythbackend prepares to start a recording.  That
event happens about a minute before the start of the recording, and
the script would send the WOL packet and check that the tuner was
available.  You can find the event here:

mythtv-setup > 8. System Events > Recording pending

MariaDB [mythconverg]> select * from settings where value like
'%pending%';
+--------------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+
| value              | data                                    | hostname |
+--------------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+
| EventCmdRecPending | /usr/local/bin/mythsgu event RecPending | mypvr    |
+--------------------+-----------------------------------------+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)