[mythtv-users] Backend recording liveTV I don't watch

[David Watkins]

On 17/10/2008, mat at lessermatters.co.uk <mat at lessermatters.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I just had a look at my log and did a grep on Recording Finished and got
> >> loads of stuff for today.
> >>
> >> So, I then logged onto my mythweb and check the live recordings and it
> >> was
> >> full of stuff. There's nobody home, so why is the system recording
> >> 'live'
> >
> > You don't need to be at home for mythtv to record stuff.
> >
> > Presumably you or someone else left the system in 'Live TV' mode.
> > MythTV works by recording everything.  Previous Live TV recordings are
> > expired before anything else so you shouldn't lose any deliberate
> > recordings.
> >
> How would anybody have left it in Live TV mode? I mean, I watched Live TV
> for about 20 minutes last night, then switched off. Obviously the backend
> was still running. How would I switch off Live Tv mode?


Dunno, maybe your frontend didn't back out of LiveTV cleanly, or maybe
there is someone watching your TV !  There's a plugin called
MythZoneMinder for just this eventuallity.