[mythtv-users] Enabling multirec borks usability a bit.

[jedi]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:22:14PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 April 2010 12:07:58 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > On 04/21/2010 01:47 PM, jedi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 09:27:19PM +1000, Christopher Kerr wrote:
> > >>> With respect, Mike, this entirely misses the point that was made. Okay,
> > >>> so you keep 1 or 2 of the most recent tornado warnings to watch
> > >>> whenever you find it convenient. When are you going to watch these?
> > >>> After your house has been flattened? After the insurance guy has paid
> > >>> out? The key word in that posting was *temporal*. Stuff you need to
> > >>> know about /now/.
> > >>
> > >> And his point is that you either watch the news or you don't. If
> > >> you're in the habit of watching something with MythTV, you should set
> > >> it to record so the the scheduler knows about it - ie. if you watch
> > >
> > >      How precisely do you propose to schedule severe weather reports?
> > >
> > > [deletia]
> > >
> > >      Engineering a "MythTV bypass" while certainly easy enough to do is
> > > not something that is obvious to many people (or even possible to some).
> > > It's also rather disappointing that it's even necessary.
> > 
> > The point is that you should not use Live TV for severe weather alert
> > information--because it /necessarily/ requires you to be viewing a
> > channel at a specific time when they give the information.  You
> > should--as soon as you decide you want to know about the severe
> > weather--start recording from each channel providing information
> > regarding the alert (or your favorite X channels or whatever).  Then,
> > you can flip between recordings (using the menu or using JUMPPREV or
> > PREVCHAN (H))--just like surfing in Live TV--*but* you don't have to
> > actually be viewing the channel when they give the important
> > information.  Most channels will overlap the useful info.
> > 
> > I do this all the time with hurricanes.  It works--and /much/ better
> > than Live TV.
> 
> If you want severe weather alerts getting a WeatherAlert (r) type radio is 
> probably the best solution. I wouldn't depend on TV, especially cable, for 
> such alerts, severe weather tends to do bad things to cable systems and 
> satellite antennas.

   Not so much in practice. The weakest link here is MythTV.