[mythtv-users] LiveTV question

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/24/2008 05:48 AM, Jon wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:07 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:51:34AM -0700, Jon wrote:
>>     
>>> What I really want, is for anything that is scheduled, to record on
>>> the HD tuners, and the SD tuner to be solely for livetv. Is this an
>>> option?
>>>       
>> If you really never want to record from it, you could do this:
>> remove the SD tuner from your Myth tuner configuration, then
>> edit your menus to include an EXEC call to a script which does
>> TV playing functions for you on the SD card.
> I don't think I understand. Like have it call a standard tv playing  
> program up? That's not what I'm looking for exactly. I want the  
> program guide data to still be populated, and linked to the card. I  
> just want myth to know, UNLESS I specify, DON'T use this card. When  
> live TV is being watched, I still want it to act as a pvr device,  
> with the record and rewind and pause and whatnot, I just don't want  
> anything to be scheduled on it. If this isn't possible, fine, I'll  
> just lower the priority some more, and try and get them damn people  
> to schedule what they want to watch. We fight over the TV a lot. Myth  
> allows me to watch tv the way I want to, I.E. When I am ready to  
> watch a show, it's there. They tend to be more of the devour every  
> available second of TV footage kind of watchers, and it drives me up  
> the wall... Primarily because whenever I go to watch something,  
> everyone else has already seen it (and then I'm the bad guy for  
> wanting to see something they already saw, but that's another issue)
>
> So, I guess I could just remove the card completely, and tell them  
> they're not allowed to watch live tv anymore. then I can add a TV  
> timer. give them no more than 2 or 3 hours of TV a day. bwahaha.  
> that'll teach them. Stupid couch potatoes.

Sorry.  Myth won't allow this.  Myth, a Digital Video /Recorder/
considers recordings to be more important than LiveTV, so it will use
any available capture card when time comes to record a show /you asked
it to record/.

So, Dan's approach is the closest thing to what you want.  Or, you can
teach your family members when they get a "all tuners busy" popup when
trying to enter LiveTV how to go into Watch Recordings and delete (and
allow re-record) one of the currently recording shows (which, I'm sure
they think are far less important than whatever garba^H^H^H^H^His on
other channels--the channels that are showing shows that your recording
rules say are lower priority than any of the shows that Myth was trying
to record).

However, as with a significant number of issues users have, the problem
you're trying to solve (not having an available capture card) can be
solved by simply getting an appropriate number of capture cards.

Mike