[mythtv-users] Video Source with no grabber

[Bruce Markey]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 02/26/2006 06:35 PM, Bruce Markey wrote:
>> Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>   
>>> I've configured a video source with a single channel for use when 
>>> recording from a VCR or whatever.  I've noticed that mythfilldatabase is 
>>> being run for 14 days for the video source (as it never has any data).  
>>>     
>> We used to be able to edit this field in mythtv-setup. Set the
>> grabber to "/bin/true" but I guess that means you need to:
>>
>> update videosource set xmltvgrabber='/bin/true' where sourceid=3;
>>
>> There should be a no grabber selection which would be even better
>> but no one has done it yet.
>>   
> Cool.  Thanks for the feedback.  I'll see if I can do up a patch.

Should be fun and easy. Add a selection to the widget (last, not first)
that adds something or nothing to go into xmltvgrabber then hack mfdb
to treat that value as a flag to skip calling a grabber for this source.

--  bjm