[mythtv-users] Manual recording nitpick.

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net> wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>  > On Mar 20, 2008, at 9:11 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
>  >
>  >> I was watching a show last night and decided I would be better off
>  >> going to bed so I hit the record button on my remote and exited live
>  >> TV. Right afterwards I wondered if it was going to complete the
>  >> recording in the background and apparently it does not. Is there a
>  >> specific reason for this or has it just not been implemented?
>  >
>  > It is supposed to keep recording unless something has gone terribly
>  > wrong. Are you sure it didn't?
>
>  I would say something went wrong for him.  Mine starts a new recording as
>  soon as I hit "record" button on my remote.  A popup on the OSD tells me it
>  is recording the current program and my tuner locks (I can't change the
>  channel).  If I leave livetv and go to Media Library>Watch Recordings I see
>  the program currently recording in the list.  If I enter livetv again,
>  another available tuner is selected while the other one is now tied up
>  recording a program.
>
>  Brian

I may have to scan through the logs then. I'm using an HDHomerun if it
matters. The way I verified it was not recording is I had a laptop in
front of me and used mythweb to check the backend status and it showed
both tuners as idle.

Richard