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

mat at lessermatters.co.uk mat at lessermatters.co.uk
Fri Oct 17 11:46:38 UTC 2008


> 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.

Nobody watching TV.

I've just checked and 4 shows that were meant to record last show up as
Still Recording in mythweb (upcoming recordings). I've ssh'd in and
restart the backend, now they don't appear in upcoming recordings but they
also don't appear in Recorded programmes. So, I've lost 'em. I'm guesssing
this is a bug caused by me trying to get XBMC wokring as a frontend
(unsuccesfully, I might add)








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