[mythtv-users] Live TV interfering with scheduled recordings

[Steven Adeff]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Mike Perkins
<mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> On 01/10/12 22:47, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> On 10/01/2012 01:39 AM, Matt Goebel wrote:
>>>
>>> Even though she isn't usually watching it my wife *constantly* has live
>>> TV on,
>>> and nearly always on a cable channel that I only have one tuner for
>>> (HD-PVR /w
>>> one cable box).  It used to be that if an upcoming recording needed to
>>> use
>>> that tuner it would popup a prompt asking the person using the tuner for
>>> live
>>> TV if they wanted to watch the show as it records/not record/ or exit
>>> live
>>> TV.  Recently it seems the MythTV has broken and no longer prompts the
>>> user
>>> and just continues playing the current live TV channel.  In mythweb it
>>> will
>>> show the show it was supposed to record as "currently recording", which
>>> you
>>> can't delete and only goes away after you restart the backend.  The tuner
>>> status is shown correctly.  Recordings that don't either don't conflict
>>> with
>>> live TV or don't happen when live TV is on all work fine. I'm running
>>> mythtv-0.25.2-2.fc16.x86_64.
>>>
>>> Does anyone else have this issue or have an idea how to fix it (besides
>>> re-training my wife as that doesn't work)?  I'm missing all kinds of
>>> recordings.
>>
>>
>> Yes, the prompt is broken.  However, make sure your configuration is such
>> that
>> the Live TV and Schedule order for your capture cards is
>> different--ideally
>> reversed--to ensure that the first card chosen for Live TV is the last
>> chosen
>> for recordings and minimize the disruption caused by it.
>>
> He says he only has the one tuner...
>

and even if he didn't it wouldn't matter, if the tuner he is watching
live tv on HAS to be the one recording, it will still be put in the
LiveTV group and not the group the recording schedule says it should
be in, AND if he were to exit LiveTV while it's recording, the
recording would stop.

I've just upgraded one of my systems to 0.26 so will be able to report
back if this has truly been fixed shortly.

-- 
Steve
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/User:Steveadeff
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