[mythtv-users] DCT 6200 Firewire Afterusage

Scott pickle136 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 6 18:36:12 UTC 2010


On 4/6/2010 1:10 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 12:07 PM, Scott wrote:
>> Just wondering if anyone has run into this issue and ever came up 
>> with a reasonable solution.
>> Ive noticed with my firewire connection to my DCT 6200 retains the 
>> last set channel and continues to do whatever with that channel. The 
>> issue is mainly with the HD channels as those cause the box to work 
>> more and that generates heat. Heat that I dont need if the box isnt 
>> actually being used. Right now ive been manually setting the box back 
>> to a SD channel.
>
> The proper fix is to use the new MythTV event system to specify a 
> script to run after recording stops that changes the channel to a 
> better channel.
>
> Currently there's no distinction between "recording stopped and new 
> recording is starting on the same input" and "recording stopped and 
> input is not in use."  Therefore, you have 2 options:  either add a 
> new event for specifying that the input is not in use, or make a 
> "smart" script that can identify if the input is still in use (i.e. by 
> using a combination of a delay before changing the channel to SD, and 
> a script for both Recording started and Recording finished, and some 
> state information with proiper locking).  The actual script is left as 
> an exercise to the reader.
>
> Mike
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When you say new system what version does that mean? 0.23?


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