[mythtv-users] Is there an easy way to Suspend/Pause/Stop all future recordings?

Calvin Harrigan charriglists at bellsouth.net
Mon Jun 20 18:11:33 UTC 2005


Nick wrote:

>On 6/20/05, mythtv at shelfspace.com <mythtv at shelfspace.com> wrote:
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>>Hi everyone.
>>
>>I'm running MythTV 0.18.1 on FC 1 and have an unusual dilemna.  My
>>cable is out (I had it shutdown due to a pending move) and MythTV
>>continues to attempt to record shows (as it rightfully should).  This
>>causes problems because the 0kb .nuv files confuse the front-end (as
>>well as MythWeb), as well as any non-clued-in users (wife/kids/etc)
>>
>>Bottom line:
>>
>>1) I don't want to disable all of my scheduled programs on a
>>     program-by-program basis.
>>
>>2) I don't want to turn off the back-end, because I still have plenty
>>     of recorded shows that I am able to watch
>>
>>3) Is there an easy way to "disable" future recordings, without
>>     telling MythTV on a program by program basis to "Don't Record this
>>     showing"
>>
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help w/ my unique problem.
>>    
>>
>
>If there isn't (which apart from temporarily dropping the DB table of
>recording schedules I don't think there is), disableScheduler() is a
>damn good feature request!
>
>Nick
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Snow or a blank screen should not generate zero byte files.  Only way I 
can see this happening is if you are getting the programming directly 
via firewire or some such.  Perhaps you might have another problem.

Calvin...


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