[mythtv-users] Mythtv smart recording

Dan Ritter dsr-myth at tao.merseine.nu
Wed May 21 19:20:05 UTC 2008


On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:14:24PM -0500, dcw wrote:
> An other option is to use a splitter so that one connection goes to mythtv and 
> the other goes to the tv directly. 
> 
> We do not watch liveTV from Mythtv but from the tv itself. That way if there 
> are recordings to be made they will not be interrupted.
> 
> > What i'd like to see is to somehow be able to specify a time slot to always
> > leave one of your tuners free. My wife loves to watch live tv at a certain
> > time each day, usually for around 45 minutes to an hour and a half...She
> > has to cancel recordings often during that time in order to watch tv, so if
> > myth just dind't schedule recordings during that period, tv would be free
> > for her, and the schedule would adjust and record those movies/shows at
> > other times.

And one more option: if she watches the same channel at the same
time each day, schedule it as a recording. Then go watch that
recording after it starts.

-dsr-

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