[mythtv-users] Making channel skip work only at certain times

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 03:51:01 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:39 PM, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> On my BE/FE channel skipping seems to use too much CPU when I am
>> trying to watch something so i turned it off.
>
> You can set how much CPU user jobs use in mythtv-setup. That aside,
> commflagging uses a nice level that allows other more important
> processes will take whatever CPU they like before commflagging takes
> its piece.
>
>> I then gave it a try on a couple of shows (made commflag run manually
>> from mythweb) and I really like the result. It really is much better
>> than skip fwd skip fwd skip fwd skip back blah blah.
>>
>> But, is there a way to get it to run only at certain times? Like maybe
>> 1.00 am until 5.00 pm the next day (most of my watching is in the
>> evening).
>
> Yes. Look at the user jobs settings page in mythtv-setup.

Ahhhhh so thats why it doesn't seem to be anywhere in the frontend
setup menus! Thanks :)


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